…is going to get a tramp stamp.

Seriously, I almost cried when I saw this linked on Fark. Usually, I just post little tidbits and leave some half-assed comment. But this particular find made me so sick, I just have to expound upon the subject.

I’ve spoken at great length elsewhere about the benefits of having a sexually liberated society. Men have always been allowed, per se, to be complete hornballs. It’s “natural,” even expected that men really enjoy sex, or watching other people do it. Or even just thinking about it.

Up until recently any woman who enjoyed having sex because it’s fun and feels good, was thought of as an immoral whore. Conventional wisdom was that, for women, sex was about pleasing their man and having babies.

These days its a lot easier to find women who really enjoy sex for the sake of it, though it’s still typically frowned upon for a woman to have sex with a lot of different partners and not feel guilty about it. And I’m talking about responsible (wrap it up, people!), consensual sex.

HOWEVER…

There is a problem, it seems, with all this free-flowing sexuality. Every time I go to the Mall of America (which is not very often, because I hate malls), I end up walking by a store called Libby Lu, which is apparently a place you can take your pre-teen daughter and have her dolled up like a whore! Isn’t that fantastic? This place always has kids in it, and their parents are just standing there smiling like morons!

From the Libby Lu Website:

Company Information

Our Mission

At Club Libby Lu®, our mission is to create special memories by encouraging tween girls to express their imaginations and individuality. Club Libby Lu offers products and experiences that promote a unique shopping experience that makes every girl feel special. Our staff (called Club Counselors), “Club” environment and merchandise mix provide the ultimate girl experience. Girls join the Club, where they become V.I.P.s (Very Important Princesses®) and enjoy a fun, safe and special place where they can unlock their inner princess™

Inner princess!? This is what it means to be a princess now?

It looks like a “tweener” brothel. These girls are dressed as scantily as the flesh pile that is the bar scene in Downtown Minneapolis.

My point is  the kind of things this company is doing to these girls can’t be healthy for their sexual development. Why can’t little girls be little girls? Tell me the benefit of slapping a bunch of makeup on them and dressing them up like they’re in a Brittney Spears video.

Ugh.

HAHAHAHAHA!

‘Nuff said on that, I think.

via Fark

I found this to be hilariously obvious.

Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for “Girls Gone Wild” as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, Florida, the video company’s founder said Tuesday.

via Digg.

I picked up a used copy of Army of Two when I sold my Wii stuff last week. I happened to be in the store attempting to get my business taken care of when a guy walked in wanting a trade. I asked him why he was getting rid of it: he explained that the multiplayer just wasn’t as good as Halo 3 (ugh) or Call of Duty 4 (hoo-ah). I also asked if he’d played the co-op campaign at all, since that’s primarily what I was interested in. Not really, he said.

This wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement, though I can’t imagine why you’d get Ao2 for any reason other than the co-op campaign mode. Maybe he was as bored as the rest of us during the drought. In any case, I picked that used copy right up, intending to fully exploit ReamStop’s 7-day return policy on used games. That way my buddy Nick and I could play through as much of it as we could, or cared to, and return it at no cost. Excellent!

So, we got it home, popped it in, and launched into the co-op campaign mode.

It’s not a bad game. The reviews that are out there on the game are pretty accurate. I didn’t bother playing any mode other than the co-op campaign. There were a number of frustrations that went along with that mode. Two things specifically stood out for me and Nick.

1) The cover system is a poor excuse of one. It’s not even close to the near-perfect execution in Gears of War. It’s lazily implemented, and as such, it’s often difficult to tell if you’re in cover or not, or get the gun to aim from behind cover properly.

2) Once you get the hang of the aggro system, the boss fights are kind of a joke. If you can each manage to get on opposite sides of the boss, you can pretty much shoot at him freely until he falls.

Other than that, the game shapes up nicely as a co-op experience. Ignore the failed attempt at a conspiracy story and the quasi-comraderie between the two main characters and you should have a decent time with a buddy. It’s no GoW, but what is?

I didn’t get to finish the game before Nick left for New York for a few days, so I had to return the game in order to get my money back. However, it’s likely that we’ll attempt to rent the game at some point and finish it up. It was definitely worth another $8 to finish up.

I also have Condemned: Criminal Origins to finish up, so that I can launch into it’s sequal.

In other news, my Windows XP install has decided it wants to blue screen every time I boot, after attempting to perform a WINDOWS UPDATE. I’m not quite ready to wipe the partition yet. I just have to figure out how to get Windows to boot into safe mode when I’m loading it from GRUB.

Stupid Windows… (grumble grumble)

A new study released by the CDC today found that, based on their sample, around one in four teenage girls in this country has at least one STD.

A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found…

“High STD rates among young women, particularly African-American young women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk,” Douglas said…

Four common diseases were examined — human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer and affected 18 percent of girls studied; chlamydia, which affected 4 percent; trichomoniasis, 2.5 percent; and herpes simplex virus, 2 percent…

I’m sorry. If this doesn’t betray the utter FAILURE of abstinence-only education in this country, I don’t know what will. Worse, HPV is the most common STD. HPV can causes cervical cancer.

Wake up, people! If we were teaching kids how to protect themselves, instead of just telling them that sex is morally wrong, maybe the results of this study wouldn’t be so alarming.

via FoxNews.com

via Fark

Well, I finally did it. I got rid of my Wii.

After speaking for months about how the red-headed stepchild of my entertainment center went utterly neglected unless I was angry, I took the system, along with all the games and accessories to my local ReamStop and traded it all in for store credit. I would have sold it to an independent buyer, but the market is so flooded with new consoles on Craigslist and eBay, I didn’t want to go through the hassle. When all was said and done, I had about $300 in credit, and I only had to wait 45 minutes while the clerk helped half a dozen other customers that came into the store after me! Honestly, though, the clerk at least had the integrity to suggest that I sell it to a private buyer, which I didn’t anticipate.

So, I’m Wii-less. Meh. I’ve said over and over again how the software library for the Wii sucks, and in spite of the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which is receiving universal critical acclaim, I still can’t justify having the thing sitting on my shelf. It’s simply isn’t what I want in a gaming system. Namely, it has a poor software library, very limited online capabilities, and poor graphics processing. If it weren’t for the motion controls, the Wii would just be one more failed system for Nintendo. They developed a cool gimmick, essentially.

Also, the mainstream news media tells the rest of the world what the cool kids already knew:

Chuck Norris the only WMD in Iraq, say U.S. troops

If Sadam had been building an army of Chuck Norris’s in secret underground bunkers, we definitely could have justified a pre-emptive strike.

Saw this story linked on Fark today about a drug bust in Indiana. The story comes from FortWayne.com. The rediculous part of it all?

HARLAN – With a small statue of the Virgin Mary in a window and an American flag flying in front, the Antwerp Road home police raided Thursday looked like an average family home.

But what police found inside the home was anything but average.

Inside the house at 22633 Antwerp Road, just east of Harlan, Allen County police found about 6,700 pounds of marijuana.

 

That is a lot of pot…

via Fark

I found this article from the Consumerist to be pretty amusing. It’s about a company that forces negative links down a search engine’s returns by posting positive content on higher-ranked sites.  After finding out about this borderline First Amendment violation, the Consumerist decided to have a little fun with them…

CLIENT: Does your company work on all of the internets?
Kelly: yes
Kelly: we remove negative links from all erch engines like
Kelly: google or aol, or yahoo
CLIENT: How does that work? How are you able to get another company to get rid of something that’s part of their business?
Kelly: we push the negative links back in serch engines
Kelly: so nobody will see that ones
CLIENT: So you like make new internets and push the bad internets down
Kelly: yes
CLIENT: My keywords are lolcats
CLIENT: I have a cat breeding business and people keep making pictures of cats with derogatory phrases on them
CLIENT: It’s hampering my ability to attract new clients
Kelly: just a seccond please
Kelly: ok
Kelly: wich one of those you want to be pushed back ?
CLIENT: let
CLIENT: ’s see
CLIENT: this one is very bad
CLIENT: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/ceilingcat9xd.jpg

CLIENT: it’s from here: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/24/ceiling-cat-is-watching-you-masturbate/
CLIENT: I have also seen it recreated in other internets
Kelly: an wich one is your domain?
CLIENT: FanciersPlus
CLIENT: Where pet lovers go
CLIENT: http://www.fanciersplus.com

CLIENT: We also need to push this negative one down the internets
CLIENT: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12943180@N00/296449700/

CLIENT: Not only is it blocking people from my site, it promotes dangerous cat behavior
Kelly: can i have you name and you phone please
CLIENT: I’m just looking for a price quote, I don’t want to get in your telemarketing database yet
Kelly: i cant tell you a price..
Kelly: for that you ahve tu discuss with my manager
Kelly: he will call you if you will provide me your name
Kelly: and your phone number
CLIENT: Ok, I understand, but do you think I have a case? Will you be able to push these disgusting “LOLcats” off the internets so people can find my cat breeding page?
Kelly: we can help you with that

I wonder how long it will take ComplaintRemover to push this negative link down on the search engines?

via Fark

There’s a little game called Audiosurf available on Steam right now. I highly recommend picking it up if you’ve got ten bucks to spare. It creates custom courses from your own mp3s for you to race on, and there’s are a variety of play-types where you’re essentially grouping colored blocks (think Luxor) to create combos and score points.

It’s part rhythm game, part match-3 game, part visualizer. It’s a whole new way to enjoy your music collection.

Not sold yet? Watch this….

Enjoy the latest rant from Yahtzee!

Also, there’s a new hi-res video from Huxley over on Huxley Evolved. I was impressed. You can download the HD video here.