The key to any good night in with yourself is finding a suitable a sex toy that'll "do nicely." The process of picking one, though, can be intimidating.

Anyone who’s ever been to a sex shop knows the feeling of standing before a 1001 dildos.

The hundreds of different shapes, sizes and colors are enough to make you want to forget the whole idea. And online shopping? Forget about it. The 1001 dildos times a million websites equals one big headache.

Of course, we're not entirely excluding men from 'sex toying' with you. The right kind of man gets pleasure out of pleasuring you. Sex toys enhance the sexual experience for women. Men should appreciate that.

However, so many males have such giant-size sexual hang-ups. They feel redundant, left out, if you seem to be getting more pleasure from a sex toy than their cocksure prowess. Just tell them to fuck off and watch some porn on the web.   more »

And baby, if we've learned anything

about God and America during this

miserable pile of Bush Shit years,

it's that the God-fearing of this nation

want nothing more than to instill

and perpetuate a deep, abiding fear

of letting go, of the chaotic

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Keywords: sex, god, christianity, repression

What if Bush's face were to suddenly shed its skin, right on camera, live on national television, on all channels, broadcast and cable, to reveal the countenance of a Gila Monster?

No doubt, the elitist beltway punditry would begin to catalog the merits of his reptilian single-mindedness.

Then proceed to an interview with an "expert" from a right-wing funded, zoological think tank, "The American Institute for the Advancement of Predatory Policy," who would assure us that:

"In an era when evil is as proliferate as flies around the stinking dumpster of the world, Americans will be kept safe by a lizard-faced leader who eats flies for breakfast."

And the general public would only be concerned because the broadcast happened to preempt the finals of American Idol.   more »

Much of the media agenda is noisy and negative, stripped of all meaning:

Superficial, often celebrity-dominated with little in-depth explanatory or investigative journalism.

They would rather market American Idol as the American Ideology.

The people who run our media are, after all, in the end, promoting a culture of consumption, not of engaged citizenship.

They want eyeballs for advertisers, not activists to promote change.

The sound-bytes presented as substance are there for entertainment, not illumination. It’s heat, not light, all the way

They foster passivity, apathy and resignation. Forget beliefs of any kind-just buy, buy, buy. Why even use deception when distraction works just as well?   more »

When Stu Bykofsky, a columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News, wrote a column last week in which he openly hoped that America suffers “another 9/11,” he merely had the poor judgment to say what many a right-wing politician and pundit is thinking.

Evidence for this is everywhere: in the fact that Bykofsky was invited to appear on the GOP’s unofficial network, Fox News, to “explain” his comments.

In the keen disappointment that ripples throughout the right-wing blogosphere every time the collapse of a bridge or a steam pipe explosion turns out not to have been the work of Scary Brown People Who Hate Our Freedoms.

And in predictions such as that made by former Sen. Rick Santorum, that the GOP’s electoral fortunes will improve as soon as there’s another terrorist attack.   more »