I often wanted someone to novelize Frank Herbert

Good thought from bookslut:

Sometimes when an author comes up with a really great idea, and with it creates a monster of disappointment and despair, destroying every good thing that could have been, I wish it was okay for another author to do a cover version. Like all those Leonard Cohen songs… which are always so much better when someone else sings them. Poor, poor book idea, you just presented yourself to the wrong damn writer.

My nominee for #1 book of that sort is The Alphabet vs. the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain. It's a really important idea, totally destroyed by great gobs of gender essentialism (men are verbal and violent; women are neither).

And then Buffy staked Edward. The end.

In an inevitable marriage made in Puberty Hell, Twilight Barbie Dolls Are Here!

Trust women

Discussing a Nicaraguan woman who is supposed to die rather than have an abortion, rm offers a radical suggestion. I'm in favor.

Tasteless, but...

Rude Pundit [on Facebook] thinks it's fascinating that Satan occasionally reminds Dick Cheney of the deal they made after his first heart attack.