I find myself in the odd conundrum of not having much to say. On the juice fast front, things are fine. I haven’t felt very hungry, overall. These Bolthouse Farms juices are awesome. I did have some cravings last night (pizza… Chinese food… mashed potatoes… salad…) but I survived. I must say, though, I’m kind of disappointed that I haven’t seen any, ahem, “fruits of my labor” yet. If I go all 3 days and nothing out of the ordinary happens, I’m going to be pissed.
Observation: there are some weird people in the world. They think that if you swear a lot (again, “a lot” being a relative term), you must not be a nice person. What’s up with that?
Here’s something that annoyed me yesterday: twice I tried to complete the online Direct Loans consolidation application, and both times it crapped out on me. The first time, I saw it trying to run a script when I pressed the submit button, but nothing happened - this was in Firefox, and I thought, “Oh come on now, is this some stupid thing that only works in IE?” So I tried it in IE later, and got “Page Not Found” on the very last page. Gah! So I guess I have to call them. How archaic.
I know this is excrutiatingly boring. So, I will give you some links to more interesting stuff to read:
- Patrick points out LGF’s latest foray into idiocy.
- I wrote more about sex and responsibility here (yes, that is a comment, within this very blog).
- Anybody else want to get in on Garrett’s discussion about living wage? (I still need to respond to his latest comment…)
- Alley Rat has another awesome post about a bunch of goddamn bass-ackwardsness. This is sure to raise the hackles of the usual reactionaries with their “any hint of women’s autonomy will cause my penis to shrivel up and die!” mentality. Aww, the poor white man feels threatened! Like I said: awesome.
But seriously. About that last link… I hate, hate, hate these wingnuts! I know hate is a strong word but I don’t mind using it for these assclowns (or Donald Rumsfeld - but that’s another story). Let’s take a look at this bit in particular, from the Pandagon post on the same subject (also worth reading):
Wisconsin State Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, introduced this bill based on the belief that “dispensing birth control and emergency contraceptives leads to promiscuity.”
You know what, Dan? You can believe whatever you want. You can believe that babies come from storks, or that little fairies live inside your head and tell you what to do, or that two plus two equals five. That doesn’t make it true, and it certainly doesn’t make it a basis for passing a law. (As to the “promiscuity” claim, we won’t mention all the studies that have shown exactly the opposite to be true.) Here’s some news for you: you can’t just have laws based on your warped worldview, because guess what, not everybody out there shares it. If that’s what this fine country were all about, then I’d like to propose a law banning wingnuts like Dan LeMahieu from participating in government. But, alas, he has a right to be a wingnut, even an elected wingnut; and I have a right to take the Pill, fer Christsake.
And so, we’ll end this long, rambling post with some great wordsmithery from Alley Rat:
The guy who had this fantastic idea, Republican State Rep. Dan LeMahieu, thinks that if college sluts have access to birth control, or info about birth control, they’ll be spreading it all over town. And by “it”, of course, I mean the pussy that apparently rightfully belongs to the State, or maybe to Dad, until he gives it away to the husband. He says “dispensing birth control and emergency contraceptives leads to promiscuity”. So, get raped by a frat boy (terrible stereotype alert!) and want emergency contraceptives so you can avoid an agonizing experience of rape pregnancy? Sorry! You shouldn’ta worn that short skirt to the party.
Alright! Back to work now! [whipcrack]
Update: Apparently, the crazy Wisconsin bill applies only to EC. Here’s the actual bill (PDF). But really folks… given the current climate, can regular ol’ birth control pills be far behind? If I weren’t so broke at the moment I’d send another check to NARAL just to make a point. Harumph.
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18 Responses to "No Unifying Theme"
Just like dispensing bullets leads to deadness.
Duh. The relationship is CLEAR.
Speaking of archaic, I needed the number to PetsMart yesterday and my Mom handed me the PHONEBOOK. I said, “I don’t understand.. does the phonebook have Google?”
And in Augusta, they still dial only 7 digits! It’s really like the dark ages.
I am being an HTML Nazi and converting everyone’s <i> tags for quotations into <blockquote>. Pet peeve, what can I say.
wow, can the world be anymore……?
That’s funny, I thought that yesterday when I dialed the 706 for the PetsMart.
Yeah and in the phone book there’s no 1 button to push that will automatically connect you to the number. How on earth can I use this crazy “phone” machine if I have to punch all the numbers in myself? Thank god there aren’t any rotary phones anymore :)
As for the wingnut…all I can do is shake my head. At least I still live in a country where the President hasn’t done something really crazy yet like say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution….oh wait…fuck!
Speak for yourself… My grandmother has one. And she still rents it from the phone company on a month-to-month basis. :o
I like this take on creationism in the schools.
I’m amazed at your lack of hunger after over 24 hours.
I myself am trying to cut down my unnecessary sugar intake. I feel…different.
I’m about to head to bed. I have made it to the end of Day 2. That’s no food in over 48 hours.
And surprisingly, I feel fine. I don’t feel hungry. But I’ll write more about this tomorrow, because I do feel tired.
Oh, ok, it’s only for emergency contraception… So they don’t hate all sluts, just sluts who can’t plan ahead…
Here’s what you need to do, Amber… Use the
document.selectionobject to create a javascript button that lets us select the text we want to quote and click the “Quote Selected Text” button (which you will create). Then, your code will insert the text, wrapped in<blockquote>tags, into this text box. Done! I could code it myself, but it’s your blog and I don’t want to steal your thunder.*sigh*, fine, I did it myself… All you have to do is add the blockquote tags to the function since I forgot how to do that part…
function quoteit(areaField) {
var selectedQuote = document.selection;
if (selectedQuote.type == ‘Text’) {
var quoteRange = selectedQuote.createRange();
areaField.focus();
areaField.value += quoteRange.text;
} else {
alert(’d00D! You didn’t select any text!!!’);
}
}
And stick this in your <form>…
<input onclick=”quoteit(this.form.body)” type=”button” value=”Quote Selected Text” name=”btnQuote”>
And did you name your textarea “body” on purpose? Seems like that could cause some variable problems, though I’m no DOM expert…
Argh, Garrett…
Yes, there are a lot of whiz-bang features I’d like to add to my blog; it’s a matter of having time. Why do you think I haven’t responded to your living wage question yet - or why I don’t post paragraph after paragraph of serious, intellectual material here? (We should probably just discuss the living wage thing IRL tonight at trivia - talking yes, typing no!)
And yes, I realize that naming the textarea
bodyprobably wasn’t best idea (from a purely aesthetic standpoint; I’ll probably rename it something likecommentBody) but I don’t see how it could cause DOM problems. I reference it through PHP as$_POST[body], and if I want to reference it with Javascript I usegetElementById.I realize a lot of my code is messy, and I would probably criticize it if it were someone else’s code, but a lot of this code has been around for 3 years, getting recycled and rehashed… if I were developing for, say, Wordpress, I’d worry a little more about each and every imperfection. But since it’s just for me (and Charles, in some incarnation) I don’t worry about it that much.
Or those sluts who did plan ahead but were met with a failed barrier method or other unfortunate and rare circumstances, or god forbid those brazen hussies who were raped. They shouldn’t lead men on!
Dude, I wasn’t criticizing your blog at all! (Hello, I use frickin LIVEJOURNAL, ferchrissakes, so it’s a pretty tenuous glass house from which I’d be lobbing stones)
I was just contributing some code, in a very communist code-contributing collective cataclysm. I wouldn’t ever seriously criticize anyone for not paying enough attention to internet diversions… Because that’s all they are.
Ha! That might need to be the quote of the day.
I hope to get some blog-related work done Thursday and Friday, so perhaps I shall add your code then, comrade. What’s the Russian word for ‘thanks’?
A Russian man once told me
as I got into a cab. I think it means “Thank you, friend.”