You’ll excuse me if I go WTF?!

In my experience with INS, I have learned never to trust an e-mail sent by someone using AOL. You may laugh, but invariably any time I open an email sent by somebody at aol.com it’s an anti. But still, much like the optimist searching for the pony in the pile of horseshit, I open them [...]

Sad and sick and just … gah

Every time I hear some pretentious blowhard like Bono go on about how we have to make sure Africa gets money for food I want to scream. It’s not about food, it’s about fucking politics and outdated beliefs. The people of Africa could feed themselves fine if it wasn’t for the constant civil wars and, [...]

Get on with the fascination

With the reality television boom still going strong and showing little signs of winding down, it stands to reason that there would be a few people who would make a significant living from the genre.  While in America our reality stars outside of American Idol or The Hills usually have had some measure of notoriety [...]

Never say never.

While things are well in my personal universe, others I know both in Real Life and Net Life aren’t so fortunate. Someone close to me in Real Life is going through a divorce after twenty-three years of marriage. An online acquaintance’s husband left her and their two small children to take up with a nineteen-year-old. [...]

Wanda’s story, or Another Reality Check

So yeah, new stories are up–not the usual twenty because a couple didn’t meet criteria (um, have the abortion first and then send the site your story). What follows here was one of them, but I felt it was so powerful it needed to get attention. I contacted Wanda to get her permission to post [...]