The Indigestible

Hymenoplasty is a pro­ce­dure used to sur­gi­cally re-​​​​create the hymen in a woman’s vagina. Muslim women in Europe are under­tak­ing the pro­ce­dure in order to cir­cum­vent their religion’s idiocy regard­ing vir­gin­ity. While I’ll agree that it’s no one’s busi­ness whether a woman is a vir­gin or not, if there’s a surgery which can be used to shoot even a small hole […]

Apparently some­one rus­tled up enough cash to take out a hit on Kevin Federline. It’s amaz­ing what the pen­nies that fall between the couch cush­ions can accom­plish, isn’t it?

It’s pretty. But it’s not my Mira.

Leaving aside the wis­dom of par­ents choos­ing either name, I have to ask why the hell New Zealand thinks it can accept or reject any name cho­sen for a child. A New Zealand cou­ple is look­ing to call their new­born son Superman — but only because their cho­sen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government […]

Egypt has offi­cially made “female cir­cum­ci­sion” (gen­i­tal muti­la­tion) ille­gal. It’s done, appar­ently, at least in part by reli­gious nitwits who believe it helps keep girls from hav­ing sex. Doctors who per­form the oper­a­tion in the future will face arrest and pros­e­cu­tion. Needless to say, were such a prac­tice com­mon in the US, the god­dishly retarded would […]

MSNBC reports that a “top-​​​​ten” spam­mer has been arrested. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using net­works of com­pro­mised “zom­bie” com­put­ers to send out mil­lions upon mil­lions of spam e-​​​​mails. Kill him. Immediately. Fuck the trial, fuck the defense and fuck the appeals. Get him on his knees, put a Glock to the back of his […]

Ann Coulter is a cow. I use that in the school­yard sense, of course; I’m not try­ing to sug­gest Coulter has the char­ac­ter­is­tics asso­ci­ated with cat­tle — or, indeed, mam­mals — such as a nur­tur­ing instinct or com­pas­sion for mem­bers of her own species.

Steve Jobs is call­ing for an end to DRM in dig­i­tal music. No guess what­so­ever if it’ll hap­pen, but it’s a pretty dar­ing move. Read his let­ter to see more. He’s putting forth most of the same argu­ments I’ve used for years in object­ing to both DRM and encryp­tion of DVDs.

Funny, stu­pid idea: Akira Kurosawa’s Gojira Starring … Toshiro Mifune. Mmmmmh… MmmmHHHhhh… Mhhh… “Look! He’s walk­ing all over Tokyo!” “Yes … and he’s tor­mented by angst about his her­itage!” Special cameos by rice har­vesters and about 6,000 ran­dom banner-​​​​bearing horse-​​​​drawn minia­ture tanks. All in heavy rain. Hey … I’d go see it.

It took much less time than I thought it would. First this from WaPo on Wednesday: Here’s some good news for every­one who wor­ries about germs: Zapping that soggy kitchen sponge in the microwave for a cou­ple of min­utes can pretty much ster­il­ize it. And here’s WaPo from Friday: Kitchen sponge users, beware. Microwaving sponges can ster­il­ize them […]

Pfizer is cut­ting 10,000 jobs. “Pfizer is a great com­pany with a great future,” Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief exec­u­tive, said in a state­ment. …unless you’re one of the 10,000 peo­ple they’re fuck­ing. Presumably Zoloft™ will be part of the sev­er­ance package.

Motorola is cut­ting 3500 jobs in an attempt to stem falling prof­its. Given that CEO Ed Zander made $6.5 mil­lion in 2005, couldn’t some of those jobs be saved by reduc­ing his pay to just $650,000? I know there wouldn’t be a way to keep every­one on board — but that sure is a lot of money going […]