Bookfail

How Borders did it.

Thanx to Making Light.

Teach your children well

I like the way fellow agnostic John Scalzi talks about religion, and the acknowledgment is so appropriate:

Thanx to Whatever.

Bad law

Jon Carroll tries to think of something good about No Child Left Behind. Fails.

ETA: And any conservative who supports it should be required to send his kids to public school.

Primitive practices of the Nacirema

There is a clear double standard when it comes to men, women, and hair removal. Now, perhaps you think shaving and waxing is a vapid issue to bring up, considering the more serious double standards of pay inequity, sexuality, and the like. But the fact is, spending the better part of your life having to shave huge areas of your body just to be considered not disgusting is a big deal.

Jessica Valenti

To which I would add wise words I heard years ago from firecat:

The notion of having to put on a clown face every day to come across as properly female is scary.

The ungenre

British writer on Mandatory Mainstream

Thanx to andrewducker

With pictures of Batman in action on the mattress

Taiwan hotel offers Batman sex room. Really.

Thanx to andrewducker

Man bites dog?

Skateboarders nicer than geeks.

Thanx to andrewducker