'Nuff Said on Rudy

[update]
Scary Guiliani cite from one of the articles, quoting a 1994 speach of his:

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Tom Tomorrow does it again

from Salon's comic pages:



Put that way, no wonder the Republicans are so anxious to run against her.

Porn for Girls, by Girls

Someone finally cracked the code at Porn for Girls, by Girls. Has to be seen to be believed.

(very safe for work)

'Nuff Said on Scary Movies

I wish I could claim credit for finding this, but it all goes to Mike Eason. If only more women were willing to take the high road like this lady does....

Fruit Flies in the Castro

The boffins at University of Illinois at Chicago have figured out how to make fruit-flies gay, and how to turn them back again. It's very interesting to me because the human gay population for years argued that being gay wasn't genetic, because they didn't want to suffer Mengele-esque attempts to be cured. I always thought this was an unfortunate policy, since the argument "hey, this's how we are, and that's just the way it is" is a much better argument for acceptance vis-a-vis natural rights, &c. than "hey, it's a valid lifestyle choice" (since anything that's a choice is subject to slippery-slope arguments such as whether polygamy/polyandry, consensual teacher-student relationships, &c. should also be allowed). Ammunition for the "that's nature, get over it" crowd has just come through with variably, tunably gay fruit-flies -- if the mechanisms that determine sexual orientation become sufficiently widely understood, then those who feel that things should be otherwise can take it up with their creator, whereas the rest of us can move on and start making the appropriate societal decisions.