the otherwhirled

….the more offended I am that I had to vote in a church today. To cast a vote against SD Initiated Measure 11 ~ you know, the newest version of the abortion ban these hyper-religious chickenshits want the State to pay for, to argue in front of the Supreme Court someday.

I have been busy. I know, that’s always my excuse. The sad thing is, it’s always true. I am closing my business of the past 15 years, probably before Christmas. I took a full-time gig back in March and I’m loving it: not just that my boss pays me on time, but I honestly love the [...]

….and it’s not a unique one. I’m way behind on keeping up on my RSS feeds, but I’ve seen a couple of people posit this question, and I agree wholeheartedly. WHY THE FUCK DO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN? Last time I checked, our Democratic candidate has some great ideas, insightful observations, and significant challenges to [...]

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my first attempt at a cartoon, via stripcreator. this has been on my mind for a while, due to a story related to me by one of my friends. he happens to work for a small, family-owned business, and this basic conversation did actually arise between him and his supervisor this past February. now of [...]

You wouldn’t know it by the way people drive. You wouldn’t think it’s true when you’re ordering your Happy Meal. But apparently, critical thinking (or at least, a general frustration with organized religion, or perhaps maybe just an abject laziness) is on the rise in a America. Whichever way you slice it (critical thinking, frustration, [...]

as the majority of posts from this past week obviate, i am no longer a “member of the church”. actually, i haven’t been one since the late 1980’s. the only “epiphany” that occurred this week (to shamelessly borrow upon religious terminology that i have found really means very little anyway), was that i have been [...]