This is Stacy’s fault and much thanks to her for pointing me towards these. The premise: what if Dokken were a virus and a chicken was your hard drive.
If you want to Deny Dokken access to your files…
…and should you want to Accept their attack:
Apparently they made stupid internet piles of money for doing so.
Ya know, I’ve known some bad people in my life. Not necessarily evil, but not your traditional amount of good and moral either. I’m glad to see this article at the NPR site.
In a nutshell:
At the end of the day, would we be OK with our 13-year-old daughter being drugged and raped by a 44-year-old? And are we OK with him then skipping town?
The answer to these questions would be no-brainers if the 44-year-old involved were not a world-renowned, brilliant director. So applaud his work and award him an Oscar. But don’t say he’s a victim who deserves to be excused.
And that’s the long and short of it. I’ve know gang members, folks who have done time for drug dealing, gang activity, even attempted murder in a couple cases. But, despite their crimes, they weren’t evil.
Evil? Evil in at least one form is some jackass who thinks it’s okay to sleep with a thirteen year old girl. No, not just think it: do it.
For those sick bastards who somehow justify this kind of behavior, answer me this: are you also cool with FLDS members having secret marriages to teenage girls? Because I’d say most folks, especially mainstream LDS members that I know, think those folks are sick.
It’s pedophilia. It’s child abuse. It’s a crime, and the bastard needed to do time for it decades ago. The fact that people still find some reason to think he doesn’t makes me sick.
Damn good recipes and a decent tale to boot.
I’ve been up to Yooper Land enough times to learn to appreciate the pasty. Here’s a good story about them plus a recipe.
This is exactly what I needed to read this morning.
I have noticed a lot of Bush apologists writing articles trying to explain away all the bad their idiot king did. You know, like half-heartedly signing onto the Iraq Surge makes up for starting the war in the first place. Even though, it was only one of a few things to help matters. And oh! we’re still at war there.
Also the bit about the stimulus plan and how that makes up for all the deregulation and purposeful non-regulating that helped caused the financial crash.
“Gee, I’m sorry I knocked up your daughter and ran away from my responsibilities as a father, but if I sent you a check for $50 would that cover the damages?” Yeah, it’s stupid bad like that.
So, I needed this kind of read.
(T)hat’s kinda weird given the former adoration directed toward the Caligula Kid. Isn’t that kind of intellectually dishonest? Can it be that the right in America is actually disingenuous? I mean, everyone knows they are destructive, selfish, hypocritical, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, imperialistic, nasty, brutish and short. But who would have thought they were dishonest too?
The fact that some folks think that giving the kid in this story a free touchdown is a bad thing. Then again, these are the same idiots who likely groused when people had Obama “Hope” t-shirts.
Ah, even more “compassionate” conservatism at work folks.
Granted, I don’t Tweet, but this list is damn funny anyway.
Republicans love demanding that the federal government pay for their property damage but refuse to sign on to offering health care to American citizens.
So…building in a know flood plain is excusable, but just happening to catch cancer isn’t?
Compassionate conservatism strikes again.
A couple links I wanted to share with you from Wired.
First off, these photos of glaciers taken from space. Utterly fascinating.
Next, some frighteningly gritty photos of the recent dust storms in Australia.
What an amazing world we live in, right?