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I like how your entire page is littered with sarcastic/sexual/vulgar/immature humor, yet you get upset when someone else does it on YouTube. I mean, if you expect YouTube Partners to behave like the President or Mother Theresa, you’re smoking something. So if it’s at all possible for you to answer a legitimate question without sarcastic gifs and other miscellaneous internet memes, or a flippant “fuck you”: Why is it okay when you do it, but not okay when someone else does it?

“all you do is criticize in an unconstructive manner that we don’t need” Insulting their marriage and clothing doesn’t make you look any better hun.

Oh, and if “Ask some help from a ‘white’ friend” is the “most racist and inconsiderable shit” you’ve ever heard, you must have it pretty good. I’ve heard way worse, so as someone whose entire family has worked in civil justice, I could get equally as upset about what YOU said, but I won’t because I’m actually mature and clear-headed. Also, if I was lost on a Hangul word, I would totally ask a Korean friend, because that’s what people do when they don’t speak a language fluently. So what’s the racist part behind “ask a white friend”? I’m sure there aren’t very many Hispanic people that SM songwriters are friends with (if any), so of course they’d ask a white person. White people love to go to foreign countries and teach English anyway.

“all we need is to embrace our fandoms peacefully” Wrong again. A little humor poking fun at how Siwon’s hair looked like Conan O Brien’s, or how Big Bang’s video has the same street sign that other kpop videos have is just what we need. Stop spewing your inchoate social rules and realize that laughter keeps us honest and sane, honest so we can recognize the shitty parts of the kpop industry, and sane so that we don’t lose our minds in a pit of depression. Nevermind, you probably think that there are no shitty parts. It’s all gay sex and glitter to you. Ugh, fans like you make me wonder sometimes. I see your type everywhere, saying the same things like “butthurt, lulz, kthx, strikethrough text, fail, batshit, oppar, wank, slash, calm your tits, etc.”, mainly on LiveJournal for some reason. At least your type has a home on the web, I guess.

Just in case you didn’t understand a word I said, let me translate in your language, “gifTroll”:



“You can’t get mad that the world doesn’t go your way, you don’t have to. Mind your own business. Don’t be too attached to trivial things, it’s not good for your body.” Super Junior - Mr. Simple

Disclaimer: I’m not even a hardcore Simon & Martina fan, nor am I a crazy ELF. I’m too normal & logical for kpop, that’s probably what my problem is. -_-

So today I get my cell phone bill and it’s $120. One hundred and twenty dollars. I have never had a cell phone bill over $50 my entire life. I call Sprint (need a snarky new name for them) and ask for the explanation. Apparently, Sprint bills you for the current cycle, PLUS a month in advance whenever you change your plan/get a new phone. Usually I’m diligent about knowing these types of things, but I was not aware of this. If someone had told me when I went to get my new phone, I would have gone elsewhere. Maybe that’s why no one told me. Or maybe it’s so common that everyone is presumed to know already, and I’m just out of the loop. Either way, we need to petition our congressmen to get a bill going to regulate these damn cell phone companies. There probably already is/was a bill, but it obviously left out an important part.

The whole thing stinks. It’s all set up so the wireless companies never break even or (god forbid) lose money, only profit in some way, shape, form, or fashion. Pretty slick! Imagine if every business ran that way….

McDonalds - They charge you for your meal, PLUS a future meal that you haven’t even eaten yet. A “meat & soda credit” in case you go vegetarian/healthy and stop eating at McDonalds.
The Doctor - You go in because you have the flu and you get billed TWICE, just in case you change insurance carriers, or in case you DIE. A “health credit”.
Jewelry Store - You go to buy an engagement ring and they charge you for TWO rings, just in case in case you get dumped or divorced. A “future fiancé credit”.
You see how absurd the entire thing is, yet we are all SUCKERS AND CHUMPS for not doing anything about it. Especially in these times, we all need our money for right now, not so some company can hold onto it interest-free for the future. This even could seem like it’s walking the line awfully close to breaking some sort of financial rule. I Googled “is it legal for cell phone companies to hold your money interest free just because they say it is in their contract” but nothing came up. I can write an outrageously scammy contract too! I could get people to sell me their firstborn sons for a bean burrito, but that wouldn’t be legal, so why is this?? We gotta write letters and make calls! It’s not like our congressmen and women are doing anything better with their time. They need do something nice for us for a change, instead of something nice for their own pockets! Maybe this is the FCC’s jurisdiction, in which case, I give up. My internet provider won’t let me access their complaint page on broadband.

I was cleaning out an old Hotmail email account I’d forgotten I had, when in the “sent” folder I come across a message from an AllKpop.com writer. She wrote me in response to one of my comments left on an article she wrote about popstar Uhm Jung Hwa.

Screenshot of the email: (click to enlarge)



And here is the text, in case you can’t see the image clearly:

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:36:12 -0400
From: _________@gmail.com
To: _____@live.com
Subject: AllKPOP comment


[quote]I cannot believe you just said UJH “spreads her legs for every male in kpop”. Okay. Yeah… my feminine sensibilities have been offended for the last time here. I’m not a feminist, but there is a freaking line. It’s bad enough johnny can’t form a sentence without disrespecting a woman, now this guy has the nerve to deeply and horrifically insult a legendary woman. I bet if I went back through all the posts regarding women (even underaged ones like WG) there wouldn’t be a single one that didn’t degrade or sexually objectify her. I’m out. Looks like coolsmurf is the only stop on the internet for non-rude korean pop culture news. Oh well.[/quote]

Sorry about that. To be honest, I did not put in those remarks about her being a whore or whatever. In the pre-edited article I wrote, I only poked fun at her hair. And also I’m a girl, so I’d never insult UJH in that manner. :x



My reply:

My apologies as well! I was just so taken aback by that; it was the straw that broke me :/ I was not aware that the ownership of AKP went around editing posts to make them more offensive. Shows what their goal is I guess. Either way, thanks for taking the time to write me!


Major, right? I did a quick search and found the article that offended me so greatly, in case one of you want to read it too. The comments have since been removed, but the rest is still painfully posted: Uhm Jung Hwa and G-Dragon Bring Disco Part 2 My favorite line from the article: “Speaking of whores, Uhm Jung Hwa spreads her legs for practically every male in the K-Pop industry, but even she won’t spread ‘em for Dae Sung and that other worthless dude, so worthless I don’t even remember his name.”

Does that sound like something a female writer would even think to say? Come on. It’s as if Johnny (or whomever ran things in 2008 on AKP) was intentionally trying to alienate as many people as possible. Normally, that would destroy any site, but for some unknown reason, this chauvinistic edge actually propelled AllKpop. Why would anyone support a site like that? And that’s not even scratching the surface of all the controversy AKP has had over the years. Allegations of false translations and biased articles run rampant.

I quit going to that site ages ago, and have never ventured back. Even though coolsmurf doesn’t blog anymore (that I know of), there are many more reputable, mature, and professional Kpop communities out there. I don’t know what the attitude is now at AllKpop, though I doubt it’s as bad as it was in 2008. Still, “6 theory” has a lot of explaining and apologizing to do before I consider revisiting their site. I’d rather give my online patronage to positive communities, like Koreaboo. And no, I don’t work for Koreaboo, I just happen to recognize professionalism and journalistic integrity when I see it.

I’m showing my age right now, but does anyone remember Popseoul? The owner of that site was filled with pure hate too. It was almost as if they started a kpop site just to poke fun at kpop. If you hate something so much, why dedicate so much time to it?? Let’s keep it positive, to support the industry and the fans. Is that so hard?

One of the biggest problems I have with nuke whores (supporters of nuclear energy) is their lack of good arguments. Maybe I should have been a lawyer, because a good argument with valid, provable points is of utmost importance to me before anyone starts mouthing off to backsass. Logic and reason are becoming lost arts! One of the logically-challenged’s go-to comebacks whenever someone brings up safety issues is “If we used more nuclear power, we would have had more advancements in the field by now!” Uh, GTFO. That the most ass backwards argument ever. It’s *my* fault *they’re* unsafe?! Wow, let me apply that logic to everything and see where it gets me. If someone dies driving a car I built from scratch, it’s everyone else’s fault because they didn’t pay me to build more cars, so that I knew what I was doing. Everyone else on Earth should have paid to send me to college so I could learn to be a mechanic. It’s not my fault for selling a piece of shit to the public; YOU should have supported my car-building educational process by purchasing my crappy cars and making me rich in the process. Right. Got it.

The second argument I hear most often is “Other energy production methods emit radiation too! Look at coal ash!” This argument is possibly more asinine than the first. No one, I repeat, NO ONE wants *more* coal mining; when and where did you hear someone say that?! OF COURSE coal is bad, everyone knows that, which is why we want clean energy production; modern, safe methods of harvesting man’s and the Earth’s natural energy. How you heard “we think coal ash is better than nuke waste” is beyond me. Come up with better arguments, acknowledge the risks that nuclear power inherently has, as well as the flaws that the nuke industry has, stop defending the indefensible, and keep an open mind.

(Another pathetic argument I often hear: “Why doesn’t PETA complain about the starving children?!” Hmm, maybe for the same reason The American Cancer Society and Greenpeace don’t - they’re not an organization dedicated to starving children, they’re for animals! DUH. /rant)

This is really the pot calling the kettle black. Half of the reason why I deleted Twitter for Blackberry from my phone was because when I went to use UberTwitter while T4B was installed, some of the menu items had changed to FORCE me to use T4B instead of UT!! I was shocked, outraged, and felt that my privacy, freedom of choice, and UberTwitter’s rights were violated. Now Twitter is claiming the same thing?? Hmm, funny, Twitter didn’t have a problem with going into other apps and changing things around; now they’re claiming that UT did the same to them. Hypocrites. Look in the mirror first!

(Back story: Twitter banned UberTwitter from using it’s API because they didn’t like it’s name, link shortening service, and Twitlonger capabilities. Among other things.)

Reading the headlines and blogs this morning, I can’t help but marvel at all the haters The Blackeyed Peas have. Is hating on BEP the new black? I didn’t get the memo. What do people want?! Yes Fergie sucked, but that’s how she is. You knew she wouldn’t just sing Sweet Child O’ Mine straight. It’s almost comedy, deal with it. At least you laughed. But to hate on the rest of it?!? Get outta here. BEP did great, and they didn’t lip sync. Same goes for Usher, who KILLED IT. I’d like to see your fat ass do a split after dropping from the sky like a pop-lockin’ angel. Slash was amazing, though underused, and the dancers in the field were so visually cool. Whoever choreographed the aerial views is a genius.

If you honkeys (and I say that with the utmost respect) want The Who or Bruce Springsteen back, go turn on the classic rock station on the radio. I for one am glad we got a real show, an extravagant, fitting spectacle. I was pumped for the game after it was over. Let’s get it started! Tonight’s gonna be a good night for the Packers! And it was.

A felon? A con artist? Or is she just an American mother? Read the story here: http://bit.ly/eMDgiq

Everyone knows that the system is set up to have the poor get poorer and the rich richer, but this is pretty bold nonetheless. It’s almost amazing when you look at the facts. The suburban (let’s just go ahead and say it, white) school district actually hired a private investigator to stalk Ms. Williams-Bolar and her little girls, then gave her an impossible pair of options: 1, pay thousands of dollars in “tuition” to a public school, or 2, send her most precious creations to a crime riddled, festering, ghetto cesspool where safety is a joke. Some choice!

I’ve seen some people claiming that Ms. Williams-Bolar falsified documents, and that that is worth a week-and-a-half in jail. First off, no proof has been revealed (to my knowledge) indicating that her children did not spend a significant amount of time with their grandfather. How many kids from bad neighborhoods stay with their grandparents quite often? I know I did. I even wanted to move in with my grandmother when I was 14, though she wasn’t having any of that (I don’t blame her). Secondly, even if she did forge documents, even if she is a liar, even if she is the most evil woman in the world, there is still such a thing as judicial discretion. Anyone who truly thinks that Ms. Williams-Bolar deserves to have her entire future crushed like a paper bag and tossed into the incinerator for this “crime” is someone filled with so much hatred, so consumed with antipathy that any normal human being would be loath to cross their path. Her children are the only victims in this case. Not only will they have to attend a sub-par school, they will also have to break their backs to climb out of the depths of poverty, since their mother can no longer work. What place is hiring felons these days? Oh yeah, these young women will also have to dodge bullets, thieves, drug dealers, rapists, pimps, and who knows what else on a daily basis.

Even if you disagree with me, you’ve got to admit two things. One, the way schools are funded in most states is unconstitutional. Don’t believe me, read the constitution. Property taxes should not be the primary means of paying for local schools. It creates disparities. If your neighborhood is infested with criminals, the schools in said neighborhood are probably no better off. Two, it’s pretty scary to think that in this day and age, a virtual roundup was done on innocent children and their families. The Copely-Fairlawn School District went about this in the entirely wrong way. They “cleaned house”, getting rid of all the lower class kids. I can almost hear the general sentiment of the jury as well… “How dare these people take advantage of OUR schools, benefiting from OUR money? My taxes already go to socialism, so why don’t you people take your crack babies back to the ghetto and get on welfare? How dare you try to make it out of there! Someone hand me my boots, it looks like I’ve got to step on their necks a little bit harder to keep them down.” It’s clear that Judge Patricia Cosgrove agrees; she initially handed down a 5 year jail sentence to Ms. Williams-Bolar.

I’ll quote Dr. Boyce Watkins to sum up my feelings:

“[..] it’s interesting how courts find it convenient to make someone into an example when they happen to be poor and black. I’d love to see how they prosecute wealthy white women who commit the same offense. Oh, I forgot: Most wealthy white women don’t have to send their kids to the schools located near the projects.” - DrBoyceSpeaks.blogspot.com

No one likes to inject race into these issues, but it happens anyway for a reason. Most poor people in this country are non-white. Fact. It may be hard to see things through a minority lens, but we should all give it a try. We might be surprised by what we see.

Here’s hoping all goes well at her clemency hearing this summer. If nothing else, maybe the governor will seize this opportunity to grab some good PR for his horribly run administration.

My face after watching the new T-ara music video for their song “Yayaya”.


Hi controversy! I don’t even know where to begin; I’ll start with the obvious.

1, Savages kidnapping a stranded seaman is largely a uniquely European American concept. That’s not to say that a Korean person is unable to tap into this social consciousness, it’s just that A, it’s so out of place for a girl-group music video, and B, I doubt they can fully grasp the historical meaning and impropriety of this theme (“they” being the director, writer, or whoever green-lighted this mess).

2. The song is hardly a hit. Now of course, good music is subjective, and I’m sure there are thousands of people who love this song and will play it all day and night. I am not one of those people. This song is more than bad, it’s just plain stupid. There are only about a dozen lyrics, half of which are nonsensical, made-up words. That wouldn’t be so bad if the beat were sick. If I could at least dance to it, Yayaya might get a pass. Even the choreographer could barely come up with anything! The YMCA move? 1970 called, they want that back.

3. I never say this, but: SMDH. People should know better by now. It’s 2010, everyone has the internet, quit pretending like you’re cloistered and fly right. Besides, if it weren’t for Native Americans, Blacks, strong independent women, and every other minority group in the US, a certain someone with the initials KJI would’ve slaughtered his way through your entire country by now. Listen when people tell you “you’re being offensive”. Of course, I would never think or say something like that… why, that would make me no better than them! /juxtaposition

Disclaimer: I have never used any IQQU products, and I am not a Michelle Phan hater. I am just a nerd in the chemistry field who knows a thing or two about beauty products.

IQQU Advance Sunscreen


Okay, maybe this is not so much a review as it is a notice to anyone thinking of buying Michelle Phan’s brand IQQU Advance Sunscreen SPF 35 UVA/UVB. I’ve heard stories of people breaking out, having a whitish cast to their face, and generally being displeased with their results after using this product. I went to the website to see what the deal was.

This sunscreen, along with the newer Advanced Sunscreen SPF 50, are both basically primers. The ingredients are listed clearly on the website, which should have been your first clue. If you put primer on your face, of course it will feel soft and smooth; all IQQU did was combine sunscreen with a cheap primer. You cannot wear silicones alone and expect healthy skin. Wait… did I say sunscreen? Upon closer examination of the ingredients, there do not appear to be any standard sunscreen compounds like Octinoxate or Homosalate, just one UV blocker (titanium dioxide). Now, that’s fine, and as long as it’s been tested and works well for people, I guess no one can rightfully complain, but it’s still pretty iffy.

All that may be compelling, but the main reason I am turned off to this product is the use of low grade silicones. I love silicones, I use them all the time in my makeup primer and for my hair, and because of my personal experiences and chemistry education I know which ones are good, bad, and downright disgusting. Cyclopentasiloxane is downright disgusting, and it just happens to be one of the main ingredients in both formulations of IQQU sunscreen. A lot of brands that appear to be high-end use this crap, like Kenra. If I were to tell you my Kenra horror story, you’d probably start a charity for me (let’s just say I’m happy to still have hair on my head). There are better, more balanced silicone compounds available, ones that contain multiple polymers, etc. I’ll spare you the nerdy details, but basically, silicones are not to be taken lightly. I’m not sure where Michelle has IQQU manufactured, but it can’t be too hard to get their hands on a better grade of ingredients.

I’m not writing this to bash Michelle Phan, I’m writing this to bash uneducated consumers. Get burned once, shame on them. Get burned twice, shame on you. Get burned 15 times a year, trying out new products without researching them first?? Just a damn shame.

Knowledge is power. Read the ingredients.

So NBC has canceled Law & Order. End of an era, and end of NBC getting anymore of my viewership. I swore off NBC after the Leno/Conan fiasco, but Law & Order remained my one temptation. Now that it’s gone, I doubt I’ll make the effort to tune in to SVU. Why bother, it’s probably next on the chopping block. It will probably be replaced by a cheap reality show — The Divorce Ref, perhaps?

Whoever this cad is that’s running NBC, he really needs to get his head out of his ass. He’s running the network into the toilet, and taking good people with him. Well, he won’t be getting anymore of my advertising dollars. It’ll be interesting to see if any local news stations complain about dropping ratings, since L&O precedes the late night news in most markets. I wonder what will happen with the current cast? Poor Jeremy Sisto. I really like him as an actor, and was looking forward to Kidnapped (canceled by NBC after THREE episodes) back when it premiered. Now it looks like he’s going to have to find wherever Vincent D’Onofrio is hiding and join him there. Don’t even get me started on Criminal Intent…

I could rant for 3 pages about my experience with Apple this afternoon, but I won’t. Let’s just say, I was practically begging Apple to take my money, but they wouldn’t. So I canceled their stupid Barclaycard and cut it up in the trash. Apparently, you can’t buy anything with that credit card and get a discount. Even the Apple guy who was on the phone with me for damn near 30 minutes couldn’t push it through. Well fine by me Apple! I’m a motherfuckin’ PC anyway! What I wanna know is,

why do they have “Apply for our card!” splashed all over the EDUCATIONAL DISCOUNT CHECKOUT PAGE?!?!?! >

I’m so pissed off right now I can’t even make a witty joke about it. I hope Steve Jobs’ body rejects that expensive liver. Right now I’m on the hunt for a fast PC laptop, at least 3 ghz. So far it looks like Lenovo and Sony are the only people to make those. Ho hum, hopefully I’ll have it before April — that’s when I start school :)

In good news, my friend Huseyin recently finished up the video for a song he produced for The Kingdom. If you like Jaeson Ma, or any modern christian pop/hip hop music, you should check it out::

A few headlines really gave me heartburn recently. Literally, I just ate too much and now I’m angry and it’s hard to breathe and I can feel the food coming back up. Remind me to never blog in anger after a big meal again.

Grandma Is Abused By Injustice System

This pissed me off so bad. A 78 year-old grandmother was pulled over for, get this, driving too slowly. Wow, cops in Florida give tickets for driving slow? If they did that in Ohio, they’d be pulling people over all damn day. Anyway, so they find out her license was suspended, so they give her a ticket and she has to go to court. Maybe she forgot to take her ginko biloba pills and her Focus Factor; from what I hear, no one really tells you if and when you get too many points on your license, so maybe she didn’t even know it was suspended. Well it’s all inconsequential anyway, for a few days later the DMV sends her a letter saying “All is well! You got your license back.” Grandma sings Oh Happy Day, praises Jesus a bit, and goes on about her business. Whodathunk that the court date was still set, right? Well she missed it, of course, and the cops come barreling into her home, hooting and hollering, ready to attack as always, while Nana’s just trying to watch The Price Is Right. Almost gave her a heart attack, I presume. Good thing Fifi didn’t nip their ankles off. They probably didn’t even let her get her cornbread out of the oven first before they hauled her away in the paddywagon! Okay, I may be exaggerating a bit, but it’s plausible.

Long story short, the public defender who was supposed to be defending the public’s grandmothers was passed out on his sofa from a booze-and-crack hangover, the second public defender didn’t meet her at the jail (maybe he got held up playing Farmville on Facebook), and the pretrial services division didn’t bother to tell the judge that they thought she should be let go. Grandma Driveslow was kept in jail for FIFTEEN DAYS, INCLUDING THANKSGIVING. Can you imagine? Can you imagine how her family felt? I like how it’s okay for the system to fuck up three times, but if Miss Daisy forgets twice, it’s over! Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, etc. etc., continue this lame Monopoly joke on your own.

I don’t know why, but I ventured to read some of the comments netizens left. One somewhat reasonable douchebag made what would have been a good point, if it weren’t for the fact that she’s seventy-eight years old:

I’m not excusing this mistake, and it’s completely wrong for her to have spent 2 weeks in jail for this offense, but it sounds like she had opportunities to set things right before it happened.

*blink*

I’d like to see you keep track of all your shit when you’re pushing 80. I’m 23 and I can’t even remember to take my laundry out of the dryer. I bet it won’t be so easy then, when you’re searching for your glasses because you’re blind as a fucking bat, can’t figure out what’s junk mail, what’s a bill, and what’s Publishers Clearinghouse in the two dozen pieces of mail you get every day, and the one letter you *do* manage to read assures you that your driving troubles have been taken care of. I hope you’re one of those old men that gets laughed at by teenagers when they fall down at the mall. I’ve had the “privilege” of having to go to court over a ticket, and let me tell ya, these people are Grade A sickos (and I use the term “people” loosely) who get off on seeing regular folk suffer. I sat waiting for my turn in front of the judge and witnessed a nice, classy, articulate lady make a valid point about a speed trap in a respectful way, and the honky ass judge ripped her a new one and quantitatively dismssed her entire presence as a human being, not to mention her case. It’s all one big waste of time. But now I’m getting off point. The point is, I hate the injustice system and I love grandmothers. Even ones who drive annoyingly slow. (I actually got stuck behind a slow grandma the other day, and I did honk my horn and yell obscenities at her, but I still love her damn it!)

Google Threatens To Exit China

BUSTED, CHINA! Haha! Apparently China (who knows which governmental or political sector) tried to hack into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and major tech companies. I don’t know much about hacking, but I’m betting that the same geniuses who make shitty knockoff software like YLMF and Vii weren’t that good at fooling Google, aka God Of The Internet.

Good for them. Yahoo may have caved in, but Google has the brains and clout to hightail it out of there when something funky goes down. Whatever did happen to that Yahoo CEO dude? Didn’t he quit? Eh who cares, that snitch made more money in a year and a half than either I or my grandma will ever see. I’m sure he’s not complaining. At least not as much as the people he ratted out are. They’ve got… how many more years labor in a shitty chinese jewelry factory? Five? Yeah. Hope his wife and kid are doing alright.

I need to get this off my chest so I can stop beating myself up about it.  This has been a source of emotional turmoil for me (overdramatic? yes.) and it’s about time I put it to rest.  So here is my cell phone story.  Only read it if you are a phone geek, or a cheapskate like me.  It will serve as a warning…

I have had the same shitty cell phone since 2007.  It’s white, looks like a toy, and has every error and malfunction in the book. It was free when I got it and I didn’t think twice, I was just happy to have a good phone with a real carrier (before that, I was skating by with a pay-as-you-go phone).  I began shopping for a new phone earlier this year, when my contract with Sprint was up, and decided that I liked T-Mobile for their affordable plans and awesome phone selection.  I had my heart set on the Samsung Behold, but being a “fiscal conservative”, I decided to hold off on purchasing it until the price dropped some.  I kept checking back month after month, and eventually it dropped to around $70.  Perfect, right?  Oh no, not for me!  I wanted it FREE! So I wait some more, until one day I see that TMo is getting something even better: The Samsung Behold 2.  That’s right, TWO, II, 2.  I fell in love immediately and continued to wait some more.  Love is worth it, I figured.

Here’s where it all went wrong.  I called TMo up one day, let’s say, September 1st.  Priced the plan I wanted, the phone, got all my questions answered, etc.  By the next time I visited their website, say, September 8th, EVERYTHING HAD CHANGED.  Those bastards got rid of all their plans, changed the add ons… everything. Now all they offer are 3 plans.  That’s right, three.  None of which include data or messaging, so the cheapest plan I could get would run me $80 a month.  Outrageous!! I called them up to complain but quickly realized that they don’t give a shit about offering choices to their customers, so why the hell would I want to switch over to them anyway?  At least Sprint, as crappy as they are, still offer a 200 minute plan.  So here I am now, December, almost January, and I still have the same old phone.  The real kicker is, if I had just bought a Blackberry back in April when my contract was up, I would be able to get a discount on a new phone next April (a few months from now).  I could’ve used that discount on whatever nice Android phone Sprint has by then.  But now, if I get a new phone, I’d have to wait a year before I could get a discount.  FML.

I read a news story today that said researchers at some college institute just came up with a way to grow penises on rabbits. They were happy because maybe this knowledge could be applied to humans.

WTF.



Right, because HIV and cancer don’t need cures, and army vets who’ve had their legs blown off don’t need new limbs. Don’t even get me started on the whole vivisection issue. Animal testing was already too disgusting, but now they’re actually mutilating bunny dicks. Wow. Just… wow. Leave it to men to come up with a way to grow a brand new dick with some stem cells, meanwhile, infertile women can’t grow new uteruses, ladies suffering from fibroids will continue to suffer, and there’s still no Viagra for Women. It’s great that our government is giving Wake Forest University our tax dollars as grant money to chop up rabbit cocks.