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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Tag Archives: Politics
One of the most offensive things to me is when journalists — people who are paid to get messages right — get things wrong. Like here, in the San Francisco News, where they describe fetish films with bondage and sado-masochism as being “torture-based” films. Talk about an economic stimulus. California taxpayers have paid $46,791 so [...]
Posted in Current Events, Laws, Lifestyle, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Sex, Society, Steff Rants, censorship Also tagged bdsm, commentary, journalism, media, torture 7 Comments
Oct
03
2008
Why Sarah Palin Scares Me
If you read me, and you’re a fan of Sarah Palin? I’m offended by your ignorance, and the fact that you deem me entertaining yet take THAT THING seriously. Don’t read me, please. It’s insulting. And educate yourself. She is ignorant, uninformed, inarticulate, and frankly, dangerous. If you support her? You are, too. Let’s talk about [...]
Posted in Best of Steff, General, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Religion, Society, Steff Rants Also tagged commentary, election 2008, McCain-Palin, Palin 29 Comments
Aug
29
2008
Obama by Way of a Detour or Two
I wrote this back in March. I don’t have the time, really, to write in the morning, got home late tonight after dinner out. A thing or two to say of that at another time, probably. But in honour of the awesome happenstance down south today, when Obama officially accepted the nomination and made what [...]
Posted in Current Events, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics Also tagged election 2008, mccain, obama, voting 1 Comment
Aug
09
2008
Edwards: The Politics of Infidelity
I’ve never been a John Edwards fan. Any guy who claims he’s a leftist for poverty activism but spends $400 a month on an unremarkable haircut just strikes me as being strangely out of touch with the very people he claims to be fighting for. But, then again, I pay $15 for my haircut, so [...]
Posted in Best of Steff, Current Events, Ethics, Laws, Marriage & Other Commitments, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Sex, casual sex Also tagged affair, cheating, elliot spitzer, haircut, infidelity, john edwards, scandal 10 Comments
Sep
16
2006
On Freedom and Fallacies
This is take two on this topic. I’m starting fresh a couple hours later, after a glass of wine and homemade chicken pot pie. It’s the second take because this topic is really important to me and I don’t want to fuck it up. Thank god I have quality guidance like that of Fame. Yes, you heard [...]
Posted in Battle of the Comments, Best of Steff, Communication, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Ethics, Journalling, Life 101, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Psychology & Moods, Society, Specifically Steff, blogging, censorship, internet, keeping it real, writing Also tagged accountability, blogging, censorship, cnn, controvery, craigslist, Current Events, duped, forums, fraud, free internet, hoax, intercession, internet, jason fortuny, legislating the web, legislation, lonelygirl15, massacre, melinda duckett, montreal, murder plot, nancy grace, prescience, public commentary, scam, Society, speaking up, the voice of many, using your voice, youtube 6 Comments
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