Archive for December, 2005

A riddle

Friday, December 16th, 2005

What’s worse than Hurricane Katrina, an earthquake in Pakistan, war in Iraq, and malaria?

That’s right, it’s . . . your kid coming home for the holidays!
Clothes on the floor! Arguments! A chaos so momentous and newsworthy that it deserves to be front-and-center on nytimes.com. 8:49 PM PST must be a pretty quiet time in the […]

Career women are ugly

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Today was a busy day at work. So busy, in fact, that instead of lunch I had a bag of Fruit Snacks, which I think might have had a vitamin in them. Finally, blearily, I took a break to read gossip and movie reviews. I soon came upon Manohla Dargis’s review of “The Family Stone,” […]

Does statutory rape need a double standard?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Since Google Analytics tells me that my top keywords are “fetish pron,” I’d better keep those hits coming by introducing a New York Times story called “The Siren Song of Sex with Boys”. It’s not about NAMBLA; it’s about a recent rash of women convicted of sleeping with underage guys. NYT indulges in a little […]

World needs better doomsayers

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Today’s NYT article on the Amazon’s worst drought in recorded history contains a disturbing comparison. Scientist David Nepstad compares the Amazon to a canary in a coal mine. This means that, if the world keeps getting warmer, the Amazon basin and other tropical wet forests will be the first ecosystems to collapse.
I talked to a […]

Teach your daughter to be sex-positive

Monday, December 12th, 2005

A friend clued me in to this disturbingly backward HuffPo entry, in which the “(theoretically) enlightened” Arianna bemoans the awakening sexuality of her daughters. It’s actually the first comment on the post that kills me:
My lovely daughter is now 18… I lived through those boy crazy, adolescent years 14-17 with her myself, totally heartbreaking! […]

Friendly suggestions from Oracle

Friday, December 9th, 2005

A helpful e-mail from Oracle, with translations for your reading pleasure:
Please be advised that some users are still receiving the error message
“Exception:java.lang.NullPointerException” while trying to verify a transaction, after pressing either Save or Verify.
The Internet is broken, probably because of something you did.
If you have experienced this bug in a repeatable, predictable manner, please let […]

Snow is gross

Friday, December 9th, 2005

NYT’s word choice here is oddly vulgar:

So basically the sky hocked up a bunch of fat, wet loogies all over the Northeast, then took a vigorous dump on it. Winter is so magical.

Feminists have slutty kids

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

In an interview with Rebecca Traister of Salon, stay at home mom and cofounder of Total 180! magazine Debbi Klett says,
[…] you’ve got a lot of moms who tried to have it all and you’re seeing the results of that in that children were not getting as much dedicated attention as they were before […]

Tom Cruise, meet Matthias Rath

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Looks like rogue cardiologist Matthias K. Rath is drawing fire for his efforts to convince South Africans that antiretrovirals make AIDS worse and the only true cure is vitamins. I’m particularly interested in the antics of Dr. Rath, as some friends of mine were the curators of The Matthias K. Rath Museum of Destruction and […]

I am pig bait

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Google Analytics teaches me so many important things about myself. For instance, if you Google “bait for Russian pigs,” The Annalog happens to be the fifth hit. I’m so relevant! Now I must continue my quest to become the number one Internet source on Russian pig bait.
PIGS MOSCOW BRIDES PIGS FEED PIGS C1AL1S!!!!