Standing Up for Women’s Rights

Let’s put this nonsense to bed forever. If the opportunity comes up to stand up for women’s rights – the only moral reaction is to seize that opportunity and fight to win. Failing to do so is not shrewd, playing to the middle, or anything other than weakness. Digby: For the sake of victims of [...]

Assumptions of Believers and Post Death Sports

A very popular post death sport of believers is to foist their beliefs upon atheists – those sexy little blank slates.  In life atheists “have a faith in science!  ZOMG They worship science!” but in death there are secret prayers to assign, desperate conversions to gloat over (Pandagon): humans have invented thousands and for all [...]

Obama the Compassionate Compromiser

August Pollack nails it: The 2012 Republican nomination race seems to be a battle over which candidate has the most proven record of being horrible to people. Thankfully, the president feels that we can reach a compromise and only kick people in the head instead of the balls. I am so ready to win the [...]

Obama Says Gay Couples Deserve Rights, Just Not Right Now

Obama gingerly endorsed the rights of gay people, if they’d only wait a few more years or like a decade or two tops.  I’m pretty sure this is verbatim you guys: With cat-like tread, President Obama praised New York state lawmakers who were debating landmark legislation to legalize gay love and Jesus (to be balanced). As expected [...]

Silsbee Texas: Apologists for Rapists

A girl was raped in the Texas town of Silsbee by a student athlete.  Since the rape, she has been ordered to “lay low”, kicked off the cheerleading squad for refusing to cheer (when ordered by superintendent Richard Bain Jr) for her rapist.  The community turned against her, supporting the rapist (and his accomplice), calling [...]

Wisconsin’s Fight is Our Fight

I cannot think of a better fight to take part in than Wisconsin.  Republicans need to learn that when they crassly take aim at the unions and workers – going so far as to invent/create a budget crisis to do so – they will pay the steepest political cost.  These recall elections represent hope, and [...]

Pro TSA Brutality

This is… a special post on new TSA  searchual urges.  A promising new blog!  Check out the “Don’t Bother Voting” post!

What is the Point of Blogging

Why blog? To let off steam?  Is it a sort of literary cardio? Can I imagine, looking at my stats on this blog, that I am truly reaching people?  I certainly have found a few kindred spirits through here.  Friends have read a new post here and there, and come a way a little better [...]

I’m Back!

Back to blogging on Fitness for the Occasion. Still working out ideas of a schedule and focus, but stay tuned.

A Revolutionary Act

Starting today, I’ll also be blogging over at Revolutionary Act.  Its a new collective blog started by myself and a few excellent friends.  Both Daisy and Emily of Our Descent Into Madness will be joining me there.  I’ll still be posting here (albeit less frequently).

Blogging Backlog

I’ve been far less active than I want to be on this blog of late.  I have an open gvim window filled to the brim with things I wanted to write about.  So, I’m going to blast through a bunch of them in short order (as well as finally get around to responding to this). [...]

Good Things to Read

Some people in the state of Georgia are concerned about Russian tanks. Anti-choicers who call themselves liberal are strange people. As a man, it really pisses me the fuck off that pharmaceuticals aren’t doing a damn thing with promising medical research that could lead to oral male contraception.  Because some schmuck thinks men can’t be [...]

Daffy Duck: You Smug #(+)($*

Daffy Duck is the king.

Awesome Comics vs No Health Care

Aaron Diaz makes comics.  Really awesome comics about transhumanism and ethics.  He got into a freak bicycle accident, and has no health insurance.  This bites. If you like cool stuff, you can help while scoring swag.  Like a Tiny Carl Jung t-shirt.  This is textbook win-win.  You can also donate directly from his site.