Triangulation (or: Appropriate Levels of Rudeness)
Standard disclaimer: If you're worried this post is about you, then it's not about you at all. The people it's about will never believe it's about them. One of the things I can't stand (yes again with those) is people who don't listen to you until you're rude to them. You can say the same thing to the person 10...
Musings
Wherein I decide to wax philosophical, in areas where I'm completely unqualified. Like that ever stopped me. [15 entries.]
the line, she has been crossed.
That officially settles my moral dilemma from this morning; I'm now way beyond the level of bullshit I will tolerate, even for a person I love dearly and have known for over twenty years. I'm very, very glad I'm going to be out of town for a couple of weeks. I need a vacation from some of these people that...
Oh, those moral dilemmas
One finds oneself, from time to time, wondering, before putting oneself through excruciating hell on earth on behalf on a friend, whether, were the positions reversed, they would do the same for you? In this case, I really don't know....
Why Twitter? To Make Bitter People Write Bad Humor Articles
My friend Dan was googling his twitter ID (funny!) and discovered he'd been quoted in a "humor" article about Twitter on Funny Times, which he of course shared with his twitter pals, because - even more funny. Too bad that the article was yet another frivolous critique of Twitter. Allow me to add my two cents interspersed with this guy's...
Kathy Sierra, hate comments, and women bloggers
I've avoided blogging about this because it's very difficult to explain, really. I'll try to keep it really short: Kathy Sierra is a tech guru who got her start in Java, published some really popular books, and became well-known in the tech community for her ideas about technology and writing user-friendly web applications. She writes a popular blog called Creating...
The Differences be Pseudonymity and Anonymity
While reading a post on another subject, I noted this interesting passage about the differences be Pseudonymity and Anonymity that I thought was worth pulling out. I know that StAllio! has attempted to explain this to Gary Welsh at Advance Indiana in the past with mixed results. You know what? Someone who mistakes pseudonymity for anonymity is missing just a...
Social Networking, Me and You - Link Me All Up
So, this whole social networking thing... fun, huh? This past weekend, I actually went out and located my stupid pages on of the social networking sites, updated my picture and profile (holy shit, on some of them I didn't even have my girlfriend listed. Oops. Not single for quite some time!) and crap, trolled around and found some friends that...
National Coming Out Day
Okay, I've been officially called out by one of my gay friends for being flip about National Stop Lying About Your Sexual Orientation Coming Out Day, so I'll 'straighten' my act out and give the day the attention it deserves. Nineteen years ago on October 11, 1987, I was a student at Ball State University. I had been out of...
Really, How Hard Is It?
I think need to watch the movie Hustle and Flow, because there must be something about this pimping business that I'm missing. 'Cause now that it won an Oscar, I keep hearing the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" and I'm wondering what's so difficult about it. See, because my understanding of the pimping profession is this: you...
"Outing" Revisited
Way back in March of 1998, I wrote a long article/essay/diatribe on the subject of "outing" people. Reading it today, I realize it wasn't as much about "outing" people as it was about complaining about prevalence of opportunistic gay people who stay in the closet to prey on people who are out while avoiding the stigma of being gay, rather...
thoughts on drag
Okay, some of the time, when gay men act like women, it makes me feel that men are trying to steal for themselves the positive things about being a women while still denigrating women. It bothers me that men dress up like women but say derogatory things about women, especially about their body parts....
On the nature of evil
The difficulty with evil nowadays, is that we no longer recognize it. This isn't because evil has changed at all, but because we now have a warped understanding of what it is. Evil isn't, and never has been, a James Bond (or Austin Powers) villain who twirls his moustaches and threatens to cut our hero in half with a giant...
On The Subject Of Feminism and The Film 'American Beauty'
Last night I had an argument with a woman about Feminism and the movie 'American Beauty.' The woman - lets call her Ann - said that she had severe problems with the movie, and after giving a brief explanation of what those problems were (more on that later), and seeing that I wasn't buying what she was selling, she shrugged...
On the Subject of Swearing
Salon.com question: A Michigan man faces a possible jail term of up to 90 days and a $100 fine for swearing in front of children, after he was dumped from his canoe. His attorney has argued the charges are ludicrous, since profanity is so pervasive in our culture. While most of us might agree that loud swearing in public is...
On the Subject of "Outing"
The phrases "in the closet," "coming out" and "outing" are euphemisms for lying about your sexual orientation, or telling the truth about it. They're phrases I hate, because they allow people to rationalize away the fact that "staying in the closet" is a fundamental dishonesty. It's much easier to say, "I'm not out yet at work," than to say, "I'm...
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