An old look at the lesbian

Fifty years ago, you couldn't publish honest porn without getting arrested, so there was a genre of Ain't It Awful Porn, which combined sexual content with what Philip Roth called "the collective ecstasy of sanctimony." (Kenneth Starr attempted to revive the genre a while back.) The famous Horrible Example was The Velvet Underground (the group named after it was no worse). Here's another.

One of us

Neil deGrasse Tyson prefers Star Trek to Star Wars.

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The Turkey City Lexicon

Thanx to SFWA

But do they have the Dillinger Relic?

Smithsonian Museum artifacts can now be 3D printed at home.

Thanx to Making Light.

Tail Gunner Ted

Like the statistical average person with one breast and one testicle. Canadian Hispanic Ted Cruz IS the American People.

Thanx to Pandagon.

I can see Canada from my house

Sarah Palin is now rich enough that she doesn't have to sneak over to Canada for health care. Isn't that ironic?