being gay has benefits!

Nearly 80% of straight British men admit to pretending to be gay at some point

I'd like to see someone run that same survey in the USA. I bet the results would be a bit different. ;)

(I'm especially interested in the part where straight men say they've gone to gay clubs to meet single women. Um, wouldn't all the women they met there be lesbians??? *scratch head*)
Edit: OK, my sarcasm was too subtle. ;) I know straight women go to gay bars, but generally they go there to *avoid* being hit on by men, was my point!)

eek

This seems unpleasantly accurate lately:


How Emotional Are You?
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Emotional Wreck. You are extremely emotional. You feel contentment moreso than happiness and your emotional lows are to the extreme. You need to cheer up and start enjoying your life. Where there is rain there is a rainbow and you need to see it more than others. Do something that makes you happy.

pimpage

Sorry for the proliferation of fluffy posts from me today. Hey, it's Friday, cut me some slack. ;)

I'm here to pimp Te and Hope's new archive of fanfic featuring Characters of Color (CoCs). Some of my excruciatingly bad DS9/Voyager stuff is there. ;) They're still looking for more fic about non-white characters, so if you've got any, drop them a line! (xochiquetzl, this means you -- you must know someone who's writing fic about Teal'c, right?) Anyway, the archive itself is Remember Us? and Te's post announcing same (with challenge!) is here.

In other pimping news, y'all should join and post to my new community, rhetorical_q. Come on, you can't tell me you never have a random rhetorical question occur to you. You know, like, "what was I thinking?" or "why is Good 'N' Plenty so nasty?" Join, post, enjoy.

And finally, lest I violate the Fourth Rule of Shopping*, here's a link to my Amazon wishlist. You know, just in case. ;)

Pimpage ends now. :)

* "Never buy anything for yourself after November 1st. Instead, put it on your holiday wish-list."

if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention

October 29, 2002
THE RE-ELECTION OF JIM CROW:
How Jeb Bush's Team is Trying to Steal Florida Again
By Greg Palast
Southern Exposure Special Report

There is no shame.

In 2000, Katherine Harris, Florida Secretary of State, ordered county elections officials to purge 57,000 citizens from voter registries as felons not allowed to vote in Florida. In fact, about 95 percent of these voters were innocent of crimes -- but 54 percent were guilty of being African-American. No guess there: a voter's race is right there on the voter form. So there was the election: BBC Television, for whom I conducted the investigation of this black-out operation, figures Al Gore lost 22,000 votes this way.

But I was wrong. The company that put together this racial roster that fixed the election, DBT On-Line of Boca Raton, has now 'fessed up, having been sued by the NAACP for violating Floridians' civil rights. They have turned over to the NAACP's lawyers a report indicating that the state ordered the purge of 94,000 voters and that, according to the company's data, no more than 3,000 are likely illegal voters.

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spoil me once, shame on you....

On a sudden whim (well, as sudden as a whim that has been building up for months), I created a new YahooGroup for Buffy fans who really, really hate being spoiled.

BTVS_SpoilersAnonymous

The rules are simple. Discuss anything Buffy-related, but with spoiler space. Future spoilers? Not allowed. Bitching about how much you hate being spoiled? Encouraged.

Dunno if it'll take off, because I dunno if there's anyone out there who hates being spoiled as much as I do, but we'll see.