Comments on: Holiday roundup: too lazy to post edition

By: Comrade Svilova

Comrade Svilova — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:11:27 +0000

I just really, really, really cannot understand how anyone can believe that “not wearing a condom when he agreed to” *isn’t* a HUGE problem. Like Suzie said: HIV, STDs, pregnancy. And I’ve been the girl nervously pressured into agreeing to dispense with condom use against my wishes, so I have a lot of admiration for these women who insisted upon it. If Assange did behave as the charges allege (innocent until proven guilty, of course) then he wilfully violated the bodily integrity of his victims against their express wishes. How can this not be obviously rape?

By: Suzie

Suzie — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the link! I’ve been blogging the hell out of Assange. On Tuesday, I took on the NYT story by Bennhold and wrote about a Kinsey study that said men who can’t sustain an erection with a condom are less likely to wear a condom (duh), and also more likely to have it break during sex. Today, I added that the Guardian withheld some details from the police documents that would have been especially cruel and embarrassing to Assange. I know it sounds gossipy to question whether he can maintain an erection while wearing a condom, but 1) men who force sex without a condom are an enormous problem in the world, especially considering HIV and maternal mortality. (Assange has said that, even if the accusations against him were true, they still wouldn’t amount to rape.) 2) Assange has portrayed himself as a very manly man, and I think that’s one reason so many women want him and men want to be him. Erectile dysfunction might deflate his hyper-masculinity.

By: Trudy

Trudy — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:15:37 +0000

The Bridalplasty thing. Wow. Usually I have a dark sense of (gallows?) humor such that most of these news of the weird make me laugh. But for some reason, that one just … I mean, there are no words. Seriously. What is wrong with these people, where does it stop? This sickening exploitation of the sad, the desperate for their 15 mins of fame? Jeez. Why do so many people go into conniption over gays in the military and don’t go in mobs with pitchforks to storm the corporations that promote this kind of televised horror? Oh well. So what’s new, right?

By: koshem Bos

koshem Bos — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:21:49 +0000

One blog had a picture of Palin’s legs. They didn’t understand why I am bitching about it. How about show McCain’s butt?

My school changed out health insurance carrier from Blue Cross/Blue Shaft to a company run by the Russian mafia. Progress now, progress forever.

Happy new year everyone.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:01:12 +0000

Welcome back! This is a pretty meaty post for a non-post. A foot of snow here on the upper/lower middle East Coast, but we’re slowly getting dug out.

Assange gets my weirded-out meter racing at unsustainable levels. I was wondering who I could try to sign to play Gilbert Imlay in an upcoming production (another guy who must have thought Scandinavia was a bummer of a place for his sort of narcissistic spirit). If his book deal falls through, he might be available.

Heading to Boston next week, both to do interviews and hopefully a little research, plus a reception tucked into the outerwalls of Fenway Park!! Glad to send pics or updates.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:31:37 +0000

Thankes for the fucken linke, Historiann!!!!!!!!