Edited to add: Oops! Didn’t read carefully enough. It’s an old article.

I had never actually listened to the lyrics of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” before… Eeech.

Anyways, for those situations when it becomes necessarily to discreetly inform someone that they are being a douche, these are now available. I’d like to see a “jerkass” version myself, but these do in a pinch.

In All Your Children Are Belong to Us I discuss some of the questionable aspects of international adoption.

I wrote Macho Christ about a church in Seattle that has found a new take on a very old tradition: hating on women and gays.

I heart Alas writers and readers, so come by and visit me if you like!

Gwen questions the one laptop per child program and offers a depressing photo-essay revealing the effects of the economic downturn on a mall in Las Vegas.

This is a link to a book by Edmund Gorey entitled The Recently Deflowered Girl. It is a nice bit of parody poking fun at the customary unwillingness of virgins to have sex and a variety of other things. And besides, we should all read more Gorey. It’s probably NSFW, though it’s only text and non-pornographic illustrations.

I’ve been busy lately, working on some issues with the ACLU (yay!). But I’ve been looking into the relocation of my city’s Internal Affairs Division which was shoved into a building with other police divisons that looks abandoned and doesn’t even have signage on it saying what’s housed there. What a joke. I got one elected official who went down to look at it and discuss the problems with the city manager.