Surplus Cats

Imagine if you will that you are a homophobic racist of the sort who feels hate is fine as long as you can insist your religion sanctions it. The past election got you all freaked out that Democrats (gay! Black!) were going to spread some homo agenda all over your clan of teenagers or some [...]

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 – Google Maps: This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids’ Right to Read Project, which is sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Details are available in ALA’s “Books Banned and Challenged 2007-2008,” http://www.ila.org/pdf/2008banned.pdf and “Books Banned and Challenged 2008-2009” (not available online); and the “Kids’ Right to Read Project Report,” http://www.ncac.org/images/ncacimages/KR2R%202009(1).pdf.

I quit smoking when I was a teenager. (Started at 11.) Cigarette smoke in my hair and clothes, and then transferred from my clothes to the car, and then into my home stinking up the laundry hamper is –irrationally– much more offensive to me than the second-hand carcinogens. Yes, I know, I’m just being honest. [...]

Earlier today Ed Brayton discussed and linked to a letter from those despicable hypocrites at American Family Association/Focus on the Family to Marriott hotels urging them to stop including adult films in their in-room pay per view selections. Why stop there? Maybe it’s not just the porn. Maybe it is the hotel industry encouraging such [...]

My gramma had a dachshund for nearly thirty years — at least as far as she was concerned. In reality my grandfather would go to the pound for a new one of similar size when Sally would pass, and pass her off as the previous Sally. He didn’t mean to trick her. The first time [...]