Memnison Journal

Possibly the most annoying and rude commercial I’ve seen in a while; it doesn’t sink in as to what’s going on until the end.  Aaaaargh.  (NSFW, really mostly crass as heck, and it sure helps if you know the slang reference to the anatomy.)

Abstinence for teenagers, with pledges and/or theocratic imposition, isn’t working so well to control premarital sex.
My personal opinion is that:

Such pledges are more of a public status thing.    You may feel, either through pressure of your religious group or in a burst of moral hygiene, that you Ought To Say this.  Follow-through later is [...]

Saudi man needs money, and essentially sells off his eight-year-old daughter for $5000 for marriage to a 58-year-old-guy.  Horrified mom takes it to court.  Court sides with the dad, and says the kid can make the decision to go for a divorce - when she’s older.   Like puberty.

Dayton officials say that an entry they put in a pile of stuff for a possible Obama-signable economic stimulus package for local jobs wasn’t supposed to be there - an initiative to get hookers off Dayton streets.  I can’t imagine the sort of jobs something like *that* would generate locally.
Wait, maybe I could.  *shudder*

The seductive spy in the US for British Intelligence, and his widow reminisces about their life together.
‘Yes, my God!’ says Felicity, shrieking with pleasure when I mention the book. ‘The sexiest seducer in Washington! But of course it was true. He was wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

BBC report about Australian aborigines being upset about a how-to-play-the-digerridoo book for girls; apparently some folks consider the instrument a male-only device.
BTW, Mere is fascinated by a new Aussie tween series called Double Trouble; it’s the old sepatated twins story as per Parent Trap. but in this case, the twins are part Aborigine, with one [...]

Some stray items:

The whole Edwards/Hunter thing just gets weirder and more frayed by the moment.  Rielle Hunter’s old website was purged off of the Internet Archive; I would imagine that required a specific request from Hunter.  And a lot of the old follow-the-money issues are getting snarly; the same deep pockets that are paying off [...]

I was pretty skeptical listening to the interview on Nightline; I know the careful-lawyer-parse routine by heart, and I really didn’t feel like he was telling the complete truth.  I see in the news (People Mag and some others) that other people close to his family or Rielle Hunter are adding a great deal of [...]

Turns out that he did have an affair with that woman, even if that’s not his child. Holy crap. As one commenter said in a blog:
I can’t believe he even ran for President. What a clown. Imagine if he was the nominee right now? We’d be guaranteed a McCain win. He risked the whole country [...]

The real root of Don’t Ask Dont Tell and other anti-gay stuff seems to be an insistent idea, that, similarly to the idea my father tried to pass on to me, that all gay men and women are desperate and determined to infect us all with their orientation – that somehow, they will all be [...]

Nothing all that bad, but all of it is after the cut. No images in this post.

…the vacant lot down the street, in front of the neighbors? Three idiots decide to strip and go at it in a back yard of a local home (presently vacant), and the locals called the cops.  One of the three guys is the principal of a Catholic high school…
Guys, I understand many things, but doing [...]

Well, there’s a mixed message.  Sure takes the fun out of things.

Article on a woman who had been steaming for two years over a one-night-stand with a guy (who never called her back afterwards) and enlisted her new boyfriend and his buggies to help her with a plan; she would lure the guy off to a motel and then the others would hold him down and [...]