Music Recommendation TIME!

Okay my freezles!

Electronic, ambient, cyber-awesome, sci-fi sounding music. Any y'all got some? Particularly if it makes references to space or planets or aliens or galaxies or whatever? Lemme know!

Serious Biznss - Rape as a descriptor of having a bad time...

It's gone into in this article here, which I urge everyone to read. You know me. I love a great joke. I live for comedy. I also understand that languages evolve and sometimes the use of a word shifts.

But there is something deeply unsettling about taking away the horror of a word, particularly when it's the only word we have to describe such a situation. It's a word that shoots a hot, burning dart of pain and shame right through my soul when I read it. It's no joke. It's not funny. It is not equal to your team losing a game of some sort (sports or whatever), or your taxes going up or having a bad audition or whatever. It's a violation so deep and soul-destroying that it takes an entire life to heal, and even then, the scars remain.

So if you find yourself about to use the word describing something other than someone being violated? Don't. It's not funny. It's never funny.

There are very few rape jokes that are funny. One's a knock-knock joke. The other was told by George Carlin. You are not George Carlin. Not even you, Jon Stewart. I'm looking at you. BAD. BAD boy, go to my room immediately! Anyway, you guys get the idea.