You've Gotten Scum All Over My Internet...

  I promise this time was actually a bit more legit. ish. I was reading Penny Arcade, who made a joke with rape in the context, who in turn responded to angry people with a comic. But that's not what this is about, they have more than enough responses. Anyway, Penny Arcade linked to one particular blogger, and I was reading her stuff, and then later on she mentions how there's a lot of trafficking for underage women in the Adult section of Craigslist. I have a bit of a superhero complex, save the people! and all that, so I went to check it out, figured I might spend half an hour having a flagging-marathon (I guess you could say I have no life, but I was supposed to be working on an essay, so it's totally okay. Right? Guys?), but unless they moved it, they've taken it down. Which is good, as long as it's not been moved somewhere else with internet code for trafficking, because I don't 5p3ak 7h3 best internet (though that's probably more than 40% of my readers so go me). Anyway, once again shirking my duties I decided to grab some Craigslist links, figuring I shouldn't waste the trip for nothing. Enjoy:

 http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/act/2062785820.html
  So this is a nice one. He was 27 when this happened. And he couldn't tell that the girl was more or less 10 years younger than him. I will give him that it can be hard to tell the difference between 17-19 year old, you probably couldn't tell me apart from my 18 year old self (a month ago), so at least he's got that going for him. On the other hand... people randomly hooking up with people ten years older than themselves, you'd think they'd do something to give it away. But yeah, he's sad. You should write him. You know, so he has your address and stuff.


http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/cas/2064292902.html
I almost don't know what to say to this one. "I want to cheat on my wife, so I thought I'd just broadcast to the world." This is a lot like Pina Coladas and I really hope that's how it ended up.


http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/cas/2064100901.html
[I just want to put this out there right now, I have nothing against homosexuals. That has nothing to do with why this is here. "Pffh, gay people on craigslist? What's next, women's rights?!" No, it's just another uber-sketchy thing I happened across.]
  Besides the fact that his boyfriend is in jail for gods-know-what, just the wonderful passing tidbit of... "oh yea i am hiv positive so you need to know now that thats out the way". JUST in case that's a problem.


http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/w4m/2059136827.html
I'm pretty sure that should say, "seeking someone to put my head firmly in the ground while my feet are in the clouds," but I see typos everywhere. I don't really know what the latter means, but knowing the amount of serial killers in Craigslist, I would say the first part works quite nicely.


I'm not going to directly link you, because I don't think her ranting, while it may have good points, needs any more views than it probably has.

I have yet to write my post about being a bad person.

Duh Duh Duh, Another One Bits the Dust

  Besides the most badass way to give CPR, though hopefully not a prediction, it's also a useful way to say goodbye to comics that are moved to Caught Ups for reasons that are not due to The Lull. Those are the saddest. It usually means the comic has stopped updating long enough to be considered dead and not worth loading based on the update schedule. Today we say goodbye to Mint Condition. It was an interesting comic, and I hope that it returns someday. I also hope that it didn't stop updating due to the author's wife, because that was the original reasoning and would be terrible...

  But as we live and die, so do comics. As someone that was not me and lived in the past said, probably more than once, "Out with the old, and in with the new!" Much like a hydra, as we say goodbye to one comic, six more have come to take its place! While I will miss each comic that is moved to Caught Ups, I enjoy finding new comics to read and become attached to. That being said, these new comics are reviewed and Comics Galore as a whole has been revised a bit, as I discovered that a month and a half old post was very poorly written and not impressive at all. That has hopefully been fixed, but feel free to point out gaping errors. Typos will be corrected at some point, but it's such a long piece, and updating over time, that it takes a lot of time, so I appreciate your patience. Feel free to make a short walk over to Comics Galore and take a gander! It's even free!

It's Not Racism, I Swear!

  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
It's true, it's not. It asks you to associate some words with "self" and then some words with "others". I suppose Harvard is not very bright after all. Here are my results.

Science!

See? Nothing about racism. But I enjoyed my results. When it first asked me to associate myself with what the test considered "Cold" I actually laughed, because it's kind of true. Externally I seem like a really cold person, which is more of a defensive thing than anything else. On the other hand, I thought it was funny that it said I saw no association between extroversion and introversion. Anyway, this isn't really about me telling people that I swear I'm nice. I just thought it might be cool for people to see this. I'm pretty sure it's measuring how many mistakes you make when taking it, which isn't really a good measurement, but... whatever. I didn't make it, and it's not a world-wide thing, so oh well.