The Walking Dead Recap: You’re The One For Me

I’d like to start out this episode with a prayer. A prayer to The Gracious Gods of Television. *Ahem* Dear Gods, please let this episode include a boatload of zombies. Like a lot of zombies. More than last week and the week before combined. Also, benevolent Gods of the Boob Tube, please resolve the Sophia storyline quickly and, hopefully, painfully. Let a zombie rip that little girl to shreds in the most gruesome, horrible way possible because we, as mere viewers, don’t care one whit about her character. Ah-freaking-men. Continue reading →

QOTD: What Are Your Hobbies?

For some of the regulars here, our hobbies come up in conversation. We got craft-nighters, chicken-raisers, bikers, there’s some sort of crazy-ass weight-lifting going on. What else do we have represented here for hobbies?

Lurkers, you must have some great hobbies going on, care to share? Continue reading →

Are Sweatshops Bad?

The image at the top of this article is a Nike product, the “swoosh” clearly visible.   I’m sure most of our readers would remember the savaging dealt to Nike in the 90s in the media, in the classroom, in the university cafeteria, and anywhere where people regarded themselves as socially aware.  These days, the popular target is Apple, partly as a result of the well-publicised suicides at the Hon Hai factories in China which churn out Apple’s bestselling and stylish industrial designs.  Regardless, “sweatshops” have been getting a bad name for a very long time:  the name was coined in the 19th century, and then as now the clothing industry has been a major culprit in their use.

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Those Wacky Old Folks and Their Saving

The recession has gone on long enough that it’s likely to have a long-term effect on people’s buying and spending behaviors. We may find that when we are old and gray (if we’re not already), that we are just as frugal as our grandparents used to be. I used to have lots of fun laughing at my crazy Depression-era grandparents who had 13 toasters in the garage because they saved everything for parts. However, considering the budgeting I’m doing these days, my grandchildren are probably going to have some good laughs at Grandma BBQ’s expense. By then, they’ll probably make disposable computers and they’ll all make fun of me for hoarding laptops. Continue reading →

Why You Should Care About Raquel Nelson

Back in April of last year, a single mother of three named Raquel Nelson took her kids out for pizza and to Wal-Mart to buy birthday gifts. They missed a bus that runs once per hour and were late getting back to their home in Marietta, Ga., an Atlanta suburb.

When the bus finally did drop them off in front of their apartment complex, they had to cross a busy four-lane road and stopped at the median to wait for passing cars. That’s when Nelson’s 4-year-old son A.J. slipped out of her grasp and ran out in front of a car. Continue reading →

Get to Know Boobookitteh

Hey, fuckos! Here’s the first in a series of articles where you get to know your fellow commenters. Can you feel the glamour? Because you should. Get ready for a shower of glitter-farting unicorns as we “lift the veil” a little bit, and start to learn a little more more about each other.

Questions will vary from time to time, and of course anyone can interview anyone else. As I like to say, the pioneers get into trouble and the people who follow them reap the benefits.

So! Boobookitteh and I are the first two in the barrel for this experiment in terror. Myself, as interviewer, and Boobookitteh as interviewee. Aren’t we brave? Yes, we are. Read along and ask your follow-ups to our dear Boobookitteh as you feel is appropriate! Or inappropriate, depending… Continue reading →