shocking!

read this article about the future of stun guns! instead of simple tasers, this new type of gun can shoot a "lightning-like beam of electricity." sounds maybe good maybe bad, but keep reading and find out that "of the 30,000 times US police officers have fired Tasers, in 40 instances people stunned by them later died. The deaths have been attributed to factors such as... fighting with officers, rather than the electric shock." "Taser International chief Rick Smith said: 'In every single case the medical examiner has attributed the direct cause of death to causes other than the Taser.'" so in other words. the people that have later died after being stunned died from factors not relating to the electrical shock. so wat does that mean? after the cops shock you immobile, they beat you to death? god knows they aren't shooting you to death. cops in america, after all, have terrible aim. pointshooting.com reports that police accuracy is around only 20%. btw, according to the nra, less than 75% accuracy is classified as being a "danger to bystanders." another website (with the article "police gunfighting" written by a dr who's teaching the 'police in society' class (along with a number of other police/justice classes) at wesleyan college) reports that the "average police officer effectiveness is at the level of 17% proficiency."  which makes them only 7% better than the average untrained criminal [same article]. ...makes you feel good about the police of today, no? btw, none of this even goes into wat happens if the 'bad guys' get a hold of this super laser gun.

double dog dissed

told reep bout how i feel bout the incident described last. he doesn't get it. says that i oughtn't feel insulted. rather. i should take it as a compliment. if that's so, then why aren't you happy for me that someone else thinks i look good? kay, try to follow now, the rules get kind of weird. aparently it's not okay to compliment someone else's girlfriend. because i'm '[his] property.' that's right. so therefore, no one can make me feel better about myself (even if maybe my boif is making me feel worse about myself) because i belong to (and am perhaps owned by?) my boif. watch out folks! don't ever again compliment because then you would be infringing on reepal's property rights!  ... also, apparently, if you don't 'do' anything then you're in the clear. so if he had grabbed my chest then i should be insulted. if he made a comment on them i should be happy (but not too happy because that guy would be violating reepal's rights and of course i should not be happy about that). so wat if then he had mimed the act of groping me? i think that i should feel good about that. but wat if it looked like he was about to grab me? should i then a) push his hands away and accidently fend off a compliment. or b) wait to see if he gropes me to make sure that he's acutally insulting me and not only on the verge of complimenting me. you pick b? dingdingding! that is the correct answer! after all, you wouldn't want to miscontrue a compliment for an insult (no matter how insulted it may make you feel). hope you kids (girls especially) learn this lesson well, you will be tested (a pop quiz no less!) on this soon.

harassed

so as i was in vegas i got harassed by some guy on a bike. we were walking in a spread out group, me somewat by myself in the middle, down a narrowish lane. see a guy riding his bike towards me. he starts riding over to my side of the lane. i kno wat's gonna happen. i prepare. he comes closer and says something in spanish. i hit him wit my stuffed animal as he rides by and i keep walking. and feel annoyed. not angry, mind you. i guess this is simply a part of being a woman? but wat kind of bs is that? where we educate our little girls to not take offense when someone harasses you? where all i do is harmlessly hit him wit a stuffed animal instead of pushing the asshole off his bike and beating the shit out of him so that he too knows wat it feels like to be humiliated? where no one later says anything (besides asking wat happened) because they think that i have shrugged the incident off because that is wat i'm supposed to do? where i passively wait around for the next time i am not so lucky to be simply harassed and am instead raped?