Archive for November, 2009

egalitarian masturbation

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Socialism bring it on! Equal access and equal opportunity in Extremadura, Spain. The region’s socialist government has launched a €14,000 (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure” – or to put it less delicately: masturbation. I can’t say I remember my sex ed [...]

in the suburbs no one can hear you scream

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Did you know that because space is a vacuum, there is no medium through which sound can travel. So it follows, that in space no one can hear you scream. All I hear around me now are the intermittent muffled sounds of car doors slamming. There is no collective medium here. Nothing between the lawns [...]