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Riveting reading it is not.

Like Lifehacker? Love the BetterGmail2 ext. for Firefox? You’ll love Gina’s newest collaborative, freely available “living” book.

skybarn:

Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is neither deranged nor a moron, apparently. Sarah Palin is both.

(via gina - founding editor of LifeHacker & developer of BetterFirefox extensions)

Maybe they needed a flow chart to figure out how to join in on the fun.

Or maybe a randy slideshow turned them on to the story?

Or maybe CNN had just read this well researched & sourced wiki article (that has been around for years) and suddenly wanted to size up the Party of Predators (POP)

Or maybe CNN needed a butt ugly web page resembling old Drudge Report pages to heat up the editorial office.

I dunno - but I’d be surprised if a greatest hits recap of GOP sex scandals of the past 20 yrs peeled off any sex appeal for the CNN article.

Oh - wait - did someone just ask about pedophiles and politics? I’m sure someone plugged that idea!

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Seriously, all the above links I gleaned from the first page of results from googling the search phrase gop sex crimes

To be fair, I also searched democrat sex crimes - and ROTFLMAO - I got this (written in Oct of 2007) in the first seven hits: Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats

photo by: fruitfly.files.wordpress.com.

The GOP - a kicking Party where you don’t have to actually practice “family values” - and where sex with kids is only criminal if you are a liberal.

If you can stomach reading some of the most disguisting racism I’ve read in print in a long time - make sure to read the comments.

Okay - this explains alot. I’ve always wondered - WTF is up w/ my thumbs.

skybarn:

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A crowd of 15 protesters upset with the late night comic held signs and occasionally shouted as they stood across the street from Letterman’s studio. But they were often hidden from view by the more than 35 members of the media there to cover the protest, and out-shouted by a few very vocal counter-protesters.

Can you sum up an entire corrupt system in just a paragraph? Apparently.

Okay - my title for the link is a bit dramatic - but listen, this Geek Girls Guide blog entry is a smoking hot read if you are at all turned on by intelligent passionate gender talk (dare I say feminism - uh - fuck ya!)

Be sure to read the apology letters - oh god, read all the comments!I don’t think Hoss is a bad guy, but he really just doesn’t get it.

Three big stiff thumbs up to the women at Geek Girls for putting themselves on the line. And thanks to @goldengateblond for her tweet about the article.

The long and short of it: Read & witness women having to deal w/ a bunch of straight white males acting like cavemen when a few people raise intelligent issues concearning the objectification of women through Hoss’s presentation at this year’s Flashbelt.

I love sexually risky, irreverant, status-quo-kicking humor maybe more than most people will ever really know. Let’s just say that I’ve crossed a few lines, I plan to cross a few more - and my day ain’t up.

And I actually think it is profane to allocate certain words to some unspeakable category of “profanity”. But that said - much of the power in our society is tied up in language and when our language gives support to the (often unquestioned) structual mechanics of discrimination and oppression in our culture, to me it’s not so much a question of taboo as much as it is a matter of dismantling cultural wrong-doing.

As far as pornography - well - fuck me - it’s too late to get into that moral sexpot.

Ugh. I should have been in bed 2hrs ago.

Barely skimmed this article - want to come back to it - on first scan, this tech looks useless in the Mid-South where the humidity is so high that when I am not in a climate controlled environment, it feels like I have a rain storm in my pants.

[While typing in this description - it’s dawned on me that Firefox is not underlining my misspelled words. - is it because Tumblr’s javascript interferes? Tumblr’s spell check doesn’t work either. So I cut and pasted my text into a Gmail compose text box & FF’s inline spellcheck worked fine. hmmmm]