Brain: It's Magic!

Mom appalled at racy books in store for teens at Alderwood mall

Okay, I find this one hard to believe. At the local Alderwood mall, a woman complained because Urban Outfitters, a clothing store, had a display of books out that included "Porn for Women" and "Porogami: Paper Folding For Adults." Apparently she took her teen son in and was appalled, apalled!

Okay, I can kinda see her point of view. But, c'mon, it's hard to take this too seriously when her last name is Milfs^[?]! (via a friend who may want to remain nameless.)

Teacher fired for Wizardry

File under (1) Florida, (2) TSIB: "I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue. You can't take any more assignments. You need to come in right away.' I said, 'Well, Pat, can you explain this to me?' 'You've been accused of wizardry,'" Piculas explained. (via Mike Brotherton)

The war against unregistered octogenarian nuns is a success!

12 nuns attempting to vote in Indiana last night were disenfranchised by the Republican party of Indiana. Yeah, that's high and mighty.(via AP)

Men 'not interested in sex'

Now that we have Viagra, a more interesting phenomenon is coming to light: middle aged men are discovering that they may never really have wanted sex anyway. Maybe this is just the UK (and US?) version of the well-document Japanese phenomenon of men getting "enough" rise out of porn to leave the complexities of women behind. (via Regina Lynn)

The Four Principles of Not Wasting Time

Doing the daily news briefs is not one of them.

Skills All Men Should Be Able To Do.

"Not monopolize a conversation." "Buy a suit." "Write a letter." "Give a woman an orgasm so that he doesn't have to ask after it."

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, Traci Lords, Happy Birthday to you.

And, yeah, it's my birthday too. Again. Bleah. 42.

You don't frighten me, Muse.

"Hey, Elf," Muse said.

"Yah?"

"How would the military treat Bastet? Does the knowledge that, so far, medicine has failed to find a way to extend their lifespans beyond 45 while everyone else is living to 70 affect the way people treat them? What's their relationship in the US with the gay community? How about with the black community, since they were both emancipated by Lincoln? Are prostitution laws in the Yowlerverse more or less strict because of them? Since Bastet males and females don't generally get along together, what is the basis of Bastet familial arrangements? Different states have different ideas about racial harmonization with abandoned infants and with foster kids: how do they treat Bastet foster kids, if there are any? Are there any Bastet politicians? What's the split among religious communities with regard to the Bastet? Are there any special social programs for Bastet? They'd congregate in cities even more than gay people do, would they have their own ghettos? What are the more popular insults humans use against Bastet, and vice versa? What has the porn industry done with the Bastet in the past twenty years? Any Bastet at the top of any corporations? Noteable Bastet newscasters? How do insurance companies treat Bastet? Since the Bastet were maintained by legal conventions in sexually suggestive indentured servitude in many states up until the start of World War 2, does the kink community have any special angst about Bastet in their midst? What does the range of Bastet civil rights activists look like? Are there Bastet terrorists? Back-to-Tanganyika types? What happened to the Tanganyika tribe after 1901? How do different Asian and Arabic cultures view the Bastet? What about Europe? Are there any unusual steps taken when a Bastet shows up in an ER? What happened to German Bastet during WW2?"

I stared at her, goggle-eyed. She giggled. I said, "Muse, that's not fair!"

"What? You need to answer these questions if you're gonna keep writing Bastet stories."

"But not all at once!"

An exercise so simple a child could do it!

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