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It seems my profound joy about having been able to download an entire 31-volume comic series for free was a bit untimely. Some of the PDF files are corrupted and will not open. Including the one with the latest volume, which I had obviously never seen. And, predictably enough, the one before it ends on a nasty cliffhanger (predictably in terms of my famous luck, not the comic series itself - since, for the most part, each volume tends to have its particular plotline wrapped up nicely by the final page). ( Talk about frustration and disappointment!... )
In other news, this website research project we're doing at work is really widening my horizons, I tell you. It's taking me places I never wanted to go... lol. And I don't even mean the abundance of inventively icky/in-your-face porn sites either (fyi, crude porn does not offend my morals, but it often does offend my sense of the aesthetic, which can be almost worse ;P). I mean the abundance of religiously wacky, mindlessly indoctrinating sites, for example. Like, say, Focus on the Family. You know, the famous Christian right-wing organization that so passionately opposes basic human rights for LGBT people, among other things. Their website happened to be on my list, so I flipped through it out of pure curiosity - and one of the things that caught my attention was a letter from a woman seeking advice on a family-related issue. So what had upset this lady so much that she felt the need to share it with the entire religious community?... Well, she was seriously angsting over the future of their marriage, because she had caught her husband looking at internet porn. *blink*
( Seriously... what planet do those people live on?... )
But speaking of marriage - here is an interesting article from my favorite news site, AlterNet (also found thanks to the research project). About a straight couple who don't believe in marriage, but decided to get married anyway, because they felt that their commitment to each other wasn't being treated seriously enough by society (friends, family, prospective employers etc.). ( I totally agree with this woman's perspective. )
In other news, this website research project we're doing at work is really widening my horizons, I tell you. It's taking me places I never wanted to go... lol. And I don't even mean the abundance of inventively icky/in-your-face porn sites either (fyi, crude porn does not offend my morals, but it often does offend my sense of the aesthetic, which can be almost worse ;P). I mean the abundance of religiously wacky, mindlessly indoctrinating sites, for example. Like, say, Focus on the Family. You know, the famous Christian right-wing organization that so passionately opposes basic human rights for LGBT people, among other things. Their website happened to be on my list, so I flipped through it out of pure curiosity - and one of the things that caught my attention was a letter from a woman seeking advice on a family-related issue. So what had upset this lady so much that she felt the need to share it with the entire religious community?... Well, she was seriously angsting over the future of their marriage, because she had caught her husband looking at internet porn. *blink*
( Seriously... what planet do those people live on?... )
But speaking of marriage - here is an interesting article from my favorite news site, AlterNet (also found thanks to the research project). About a straight couple who don't believe in marriage, but decided to get married anyway, because they felt that their commitment to each other wasn't being treated seriously enough by society (friends, family, prospective employers etc.). ( I totally agree with this woman's perspective. )
