Read this post at Hoyden About Town, and then call Apple at 1 (408) 974-2042. Ask them why they thought an app called “Peekaboo Tranny” should be endorsed by Apple.

John Stevens and my own Stevens (Miller, that is) have an interesting set of posts up. Read John’s first at Our Loudoun Schools, and then read Stevens’s response at Without Supervision.

Logic! Reason! SCIENCE! Well, maybe not science.

I am excited to see something that is rarely seen in the Loudoun blogosphere, a calm rational substantive debate based on thoughtful interpretations of the facts.

Read what John Scalzi didn’t have to think about.

(h/t Shakesville)  

The Stray Cats cover of Summertime Blues:

[Sounds of me banging my head on the keyboard]. THIS IS WHY WE’RE HAVING AN ENTHUSIASM GAP! Dammit! Equality is in the National fucking Platform for crying out loud.

I hear Danny Glover shouting in my head.

BitchPhD is going dark. I am so sad about this. That blog has been enormously influential to me. Not least because the lead writer taught me how to get my bras properly fitted. I hate it when blogs I love go dark. I hate it worse when they take down the site entirely. I really hope that doesn’t happen with Bitch PhD.Damn it, I’m going to miss that blog.

So what are you waiting for? An engraved invitation? Go get registered!

So we’ve been here 6 months, we have over 40 registered users, 4 regular bloggers, and 6 guest posters!

We’ve had debates on transportation, schools, CPBO, and whether or not Obama is progressive enough (personally, I say, “no”).

I’ve certainly enjoyed our first 6 months. It’s an honor to blog here.

Don’t forget that you can post without registering, by signing in as Guest (password is Guest).

And donating blood is fast, and easy, and almost entirely risk free to the donor, right?

Yet, donating blood is not mandatory. It’s entirely voluntary. Nobody forces you to go through the very minor effort of donating blood to save lives.

Nor is anyone forcing you to get tested for compatibility with people awaiting kidney, or liver, or bone marrow transplants. Those are not minor procedures, but they save lives at relatively little risk to the donor’s life (it takes several months to recover fully), yet nobody suggests that anyone should have to sacrifice their health or an organ to protect the life of someone else.

Unless that organ is a uterus.

Okay, this isn’t really political, nor did it make it onto the pop charts, but the song I’m featuring today was a favorite of mine back when I worked on my college radio station in the late ’80’s. It’s the B-side of Naked Raygun’s Vanilla Blue. It’s basically the best of Slim Pickens, set to a rollicking, rolling guitar and drum score.

And yeah, Slim uses language in this piece that I won’t let you use in comments. Autre temps and all that.

So now, without further ado, I bring you “Slim”

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