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Vegetarian writes article about "Vegetarian Myths, debunked" for Slate, saying, essentially, that hey, vegetarians are just like you, dudes. Vegetarian sets out to clear up some misconceptions and stereotypes. Some of this good. Yes, indeed, we're not all health-nuts, woo-addicts, or whatever. But then Vegetarian has to go and write this:

A select few herbivores go one step further and avoid all animal products—milk, eggs, honey, leather—and they call themselves vegan, which rhymes with "tree men." These people are intense.

Vegan facepalms, and thanks the leather shoe wearing vegetarian for the sweeping generalizations about vegans. Because lordie knows, the way to fight stereotypes affecting your sorry ass is to smack some on some other folk. Ass. Hat.

I do appalud the bit about restaurants, though. Honestly, I hate being presented with a pile of vegetables and being told it's dinner.

Now, if you don't mind, I have to contact the PETA Commando Squad and call out a strangulation-by-hemp hit on someone.

via Dispatches from the Culture Wars (who via'ed Pam's House Blend who via'ed Blogger Interrupted):


Sure, she represents a fringe, but it's a bigger fringe than we like to think. And it's Ohio. The voting machines will probably record *her* vote 50 times. So quick, someone dress up as a Concerned Women of America spokesperson** and start spreading rumors that McCain is an atheist Arab abortion doctor.

What chilled me the most, in that oh god I can hear the goose-stepping boots marching kind of way, is that bit where she talks about how Obama wants to kill babies after birth if they were "supposed to be aborted." Am I the only one that hears echoes of the Blood Libel in that?

(**male, of course. This is Concerned Women of America, after all)

A man who was barred from the London Police for having too high an IQ lost his court challenge.

From Random

Those who have been at this bike crossing on 3rd and Country Club will be WTF'ing at this moment. The way I figure it, only drugs or alcohol explain how a vehicle got there to do that damage.

See, this is why I spent the extra 15 dollars to get the phone with the camera. By the way, did I mention that it was at 8pm at night and I was in shorts, tee shirt and sandals? Gotta love February in Tucson.