We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, Mary Jo

Just so all you young whippersnappers know, it’s been 40 years this month since Sen. Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquidick Island in Masschusetts late at night after a party and left a young staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne, behind in the car to drown. The analysis of his motives was epitomized by this …

So now we're the LGBTQS community

While most conservatives have a stereotype of gays and lesbians as being among the minorities that try to achieve power through their status as victims, this overlooks the reality that being second-class citizens who often are ostracized from their own families — which does NOT happen to racial, religious and ethnic minorities, because, come on, …

No Joss Whedon, no Sarah Michelle Gellar, no Scooby Gang for the new 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' movie — yes, THAT is the formula for disaster!

moar funny pictures I learned from Moe Lane today about the announcements in May and June of plans for a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie without Buffy’s creator, Joss Whedon, who wrote the screenplay of the original 1992 movie and wrote and produced the series of the same name, which ran from 1997 to …

The Obama Prevarication Predictor — UPDATED

moar funny pictures Obama, as a man without a conscience — that is, a sociopath — whose overriding goal in life is to dominate everyone and everything, who does not have the ability to feel empathy and whose cool, calm demeanor is based on the fact that there are very few emotions that sociopaths genuinely …

Just a Girl in Short Shorts has ended, but Becky says she'll be back

Becky, the libertarian lesbian lawyer and mother who blogged at Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever, declares today that she is ending her blog due to censorship imposed by Google last week, which has caused her traffic of 150,000 hits per month to crash. She tweeted this morning: The time has come …

When the choice people have is between their own death and the death of capitalism, I'm thinking the majority will choose for capitalism to die

I work in the bedroom next to my father’s so I heard him get up last Thursday morning, the clunk of his shoes as he got dressed, then the whir of the stair lift as he rode downstairs. Then I heard him open the door and go out for the newspaper and to sample the …

'I kept on turning the handle'

The woman singing “I kept on turning the handle,” a song from the point of view of a silent movie camera operator in 1913, is Joanna Seaton. She is the lovely and charming wife of my friend, Donald Sosin, who is a famous composer, arranger and accompanist for silent movies. Donnie and I met on …

Obama's healthcare reform bill outlaws private health insurance

Organizational Chart of House Democrats Health Plan – During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised healthcare reform where the uninsured would be covered through a government program while the insured would be allowed to keep their current plan. This assauged the fears of people happy with their current health insurance that Obama’s plan would not …

Unfounded porn complaints today shut down Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever

I came home from taking my father to the pool this afternoon and thought I’d see if there were any comments that I needed to approve before watering the tomatoes and starting dinner, when this urgent message changed my plans: Look what’s happened to the Just a Girl in Short Shorts blog: http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com It’s not …