IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU MOAN

ITEM: Sex is not allowed on the International Space Station. Ever.

In case you were wondering.

"We are a group of professionals," said Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander, during a visit to Tokyo, when asked about the consequences if astronauts boldly went where no others have been.

"We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not ... an issue," said a serious-faced Mr Poindexter. "We don't have them and we won't."

Also, it’s a lot of work and the jism gets EVERYWHERE in zero gravity, says Violet Blue. (On the bright side, bondage is pretty much a minimum requirement.)

The jokes write themselves, but on the other hand I can see why they’d want to keep it professional, the (apparent) lack of single astronauts notwithstanding. Workplace relationships are complicated enough on the ground, let alone in a confined space 400 km above the Earth.

On a side note, I find it interesting that the question of orbital sex is only coming up now that the male/female ratio of astronauts on the ISS is evening up.

I’m just saying.

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GAY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, PART 3: MAN ENOUGH TO BE A WOMAN

It’s Gay Pride Week. Or, more accurately, it’s LGBT Pride Week, and the “T” stands for “transexual”, so here’s Jayne County, who wants to know, “Are You Man Enough To be A Woman?”

I am what I am,

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I CAN HAS REDRUM?

Uh oh.



Bad kitty,

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ABE LINCOLN: TAX SLAYER

ITEM [via dinopollard ]: Rick Barber – a Tea Party activist who is running for the GOP nomination for Alabama’s 2nd District House seat – issues a TV ad in which he quizzes Abraham Lincoln.

Barber: Hey Abe. If someone is forced to work for months to pay taxes so that a total stranger can get a free meal, medical procedure or a bailout, what's that called? What's it called when one man is forced to work for another?

Abe: Slavery.

And Abe would know, since he signed the first ever US income tax into law in 1861.

For now, anyway. Once this year’s new textbooks are issued, maybe it’ll be FDR who started the income tax. Or Hillary Clinton. Or, you know, someone. Just like they’ll make clear that Alabama always opposed slavery and refused to implement it. And that Thurgood Marshall was actually a Communist.

Of course, that doesn’t explain the weird logic of how paying an income tax amounts to being “forced” to work for someone else. But look, Barber had to make the Lincoln angle work somehow, and he can’t be expected to think of everything, can he?

Anyway, I recommend watching the ad, if only for the surreal rewritten version of the national anthem and the Dale "Get Away From That Sign!" Peterson cameo. 

Slave to the rhythm,

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