Musings of an Eclectic Nymphomaniac

And does anyone else find it interesting that it says that she “demanded too much sex”? If it had been a male nympho and a female victim, anyone else think it would have been worded differently?

Here’s an example from the same site. Oh, the hypocrisy.

What’s even more disgusting is the comments. “He’s a pansy.” “Oh, I wish this could happen to me.” “Where’s her contact information?” “MAN UP!”

1. You’re being deliberately horrible to other people. Stop.

2. If you are a parent, you probably need a couple of bedrooms so you and your children have a place to sleep. Or maybe you aren’t a parent, you’re living with a partner or a friend or a relative who is unable to work. Same thing, you need space to sleep and call your own. Not cramming everyone into one bedroom or making someone take the couch every night isn’t really a luxury.

3. The whole idea of the minimum wage when it was first implemented was that it would be enough to support a family on one person’s wages. Food, shelter, medicine, et cetera. And now, one person’s wages can’t even cover housing for the family *anywhere in the country* let alone food or medicine or anything else.

This isn’t trivial — this means tons of people are homeless and hungry and sick. This means that they labor as long and as hard (or usually longer and harder) as everyone else and they still can’t afford a warm place for their family to sleep.

Got called cutie today by some random cyclist. At first I thought he was referring to Neo (my dog) but nah he said “I was talking to you but your dog is adorable” (legs be paler because I had to put sunscreen on them obviously I don’t rub it in enough but fuck it. My sunscreen is blue and awesome and I get to draw the thieves guild symbol on me!)

We are fighting for equality, acceptance, the right to be who we are. We are fighting for our civil liberties.

In a time when we should be rejoicing together with the shared spirit of the human experience, we are at odds.

Do not let the decisions of today effect your tomorrow. Fight for a different outcome. Do not lose hope. 

Found on flickr.com

Rick Perlstein (via azspot)

Basically it is stated that if you cut taxes for the richest americans, they will have more -- more money to spend and invest. And as they spend and invest, the effect of their spending trickles down to everyone else in the economy. A rising tide lifts all boats, right?

Well between 1980 and 1990 the top 1% saw their earnings rise by 80% while the bottom 90% saw an increase of a whole 3% The bottom fifth of the country, fifty million people, saw an income decrease of 4.4%

Here's the fatal flaw: let's say it's Christmas 1989. The upper class has an incredible amount of money to spend compared to ten years ago. Where do these people go? They go to five-star hotels, restaurants,  and luxury stores. At the same time, the lower class has even less money to spend than they did ten years ago. So they do not go out and spend this holiday season, and subsequently they don't support the stores in their local area owned by middle class. And you know the wealthy aren't going to go to the furniture store that is owned by the middle class working man. They're going to go to the luxury store owned by the big corporation that got tax cuts!

It wasn’t until the middle of WWII that Congress adopted it as the pledge, later dropping the Bellamy salute and opting for a right hand over the heart. Then it wasn’t until the Cold War that “under god” was added because our enemies were godless commies.