I heard about this YouTube video from Urban Dictionary‘s chat room on Freenode:

(via YouTube)

BTW that’s not what the word means, it’s more than just “smelling”

A senior at North Dallas High School who was born a boy but who ran for homecoming queen did not make the cut.

Andy Moreno has identified herself as female for the past year. She looks and acts like a girl.

“…I don’t feel comfortable with because I identify myself as a woman and not as a male, and a king is a male,” she previously told FOX 4.

She believes it was discriminatory, she said.

The Dallas Independent School District said in a statement there was no change in the principal’s position to allow only male students to be eligible for homecoming king and female students to be eligible for homecoming queen.

Now it appears the same thing is occurring with STP. This band has existed since 1992 (1991 if you count the non-grunge Mighty Joe Young demo material)

Their first album in 1992, the grungy Core, has lots of hits played on classic rock stations, including “Sex Type Thing”, “Plush”, and “Wicked Garden”.

1994′s Purple (incorrectly considered self-titled as the word “purple” is written in Chinese) is very 70s rock sounding, Led Zeppelin-like. Two hits from Purple are frequently played by classic rock stations, “Big Empty” (also used in The Crow) and “Interstate Love Song”. (A heavier hit, “Unglued”, is no longer heard on the radio)

I was a fan of this band since I was in 6th grade. This was 1996, after Tiny Music was released. This had a more messy sound, wasn’t always heavy, and sounded similar to the Beatles at times.

In 1999, after a brief break-up (including terrible solo work by singer Scott Weiland), No. 4 was released. It was very heavy, kind of like Core, and there were a few softer Tiny Music-like songs, but also very messy, as there were psychological issues at the time, including Scott Weiland’s drug addiction.

Shangri-La Dee Da, released in 2001, was mostly acoustic. I didn’t like it and found it boring, but others disagreed with me. There were frequent obvious references to Courtney Love (Hole like most others had “sold out” at the time), including the hit “Hollywood Bitch” and the conspiratorial “Too Cool Queenie”

(note I can only find a session recording, if you are interested in the conspiracy theory click here for the lyrics)

A greatest hits album, 2003′s Thank You (from which the above video came from, as I am told, I do not have this album). The buy-this-anyway-hit was “All In The Suit That You Wear” (sounds kinda like a cross between No. 4 and Shangri-La Dee Da):

After another break-up, Scott joined members of Guns & Roses to found Velvet Revolver, which I didn’t like (nor do I like Guns & Roses). The rest of STP joined Filter’s singer Ray Luzier to form Army of Anyone, or, “The Rest of Shangri-La Dee Da”.

A few months ago, they came back with their self titled album, Stone Temple Pilots. This album was just plain excellent. IMO Shangri-La Dee Da is no way to end a career unless you’ve given up on music. The radio hit “Between the Lines”, which will probably be locked away in the ClearChannel vault, is heavy yet polished, with the bridge lifted from Nirvana’s song “Stay Away” Hopefully they will continue to release records and not break up with another Shangri-La Dee Da Here are some songs from the new album, and the Nirvana song for comparison:

Having heard all these songs, go check out the reviews on Amazon for Stone Temple Pilots’ new 2010 self-titled release. All of the negative reviews say “This isn’t Core or Purple“, as if this was STP’s third album released 10 years after being a one-hit wonder.

To put it another way: as classic rock and modern rock radio have become merged over the past 5 or so years, too many songs were lost, reducing great careers into one-hit wonders. Pearl Jam for instance had dozens of releases on old modern/alternative rock stations. Less than 5-8 of them are played now.

Well now (actually in March) Wikileaks has revealed another reason – to enable abuse of power in government. Here are excerpts from a CIA document on propaganda operations to increase support for war in Afghanistan:

Afghanistan: Sustaining West European Support for the NATO-led Mission—Why Counting on Apathy Might Not Be Enough

Public Apathy Enables Leaders To Ignore Voters

French Focused On Civilians and Refugees. Focusing on a message that ISAF benefits Afghan civilians and citing examples of concrete gains could limit and perhaps even reverse opposition to the mission. Such tailored messages could tap into acute French concern for civilians and refugees.

Conversely, messaging that dramatizes the potential adverse consequences of an ISAF defeat for Afghan civilians could leverage French (and other European) guilt for abandoning them. The prospect of the Taliban rolling back hard-won progress on girls’ education could provoke French indignation, become a rallying point for France’s largely secular public, and give voters a reason to support a good and necessary cause despite casualties.”

The French government has already made combating Afghan human trafficking networks a priority and would probably support an information campaign that a NATO defeat in Afghanistan could precipitate a refugee crisis.

For example, messages that illustrate how a defeat in Afghanistan could heighten Germany’s exposure to terrorism, opium, and refugees might help to make the war more salient to skeptics.

The same poll also found that, when respondents were reminded that President Obama himself had asked for increased deployments to Afghanistan, their support for granting this request increased dramatically

Media events that feature testimonials by Afghan women would probably be most effective if broadcast on programs that have large and disproportionately female audiences.

Here is the Wikileaks page, though the PDF file download seems to be down. You can read and download the PDF on Doxtop.com.

A show I used to watch when I was little:

Watch the video via Fox Nation

Like, if a conversation with a guy is going somewhere I don’t like, you can manipulate it and build a dynamic that causes that person to fear you sexually. You do it with men by making them feel small, and men usually feel small when they’re attracted to someone.

And that’s what can happen when a girl or woman is completely in charge of her sexuality and embraces the power of her vagina. It intimidates men – not all, but some. Men are scared of vaginas. And then when you give them a powerful, confident vagina, they’re terrified. They don’t know how to deal with it.

I’ve never heard of any straight man being afraid of vaginas. I know I’d be brave enough to slay this powerful, confident vagina in a swordfight :

The column cited the "Inclusive Version":

"For God so loved the world that God gave God’s only Child, so that everyone who believes in that Child may not perish but may have eternal life." -John 3:16 (AIV)

I had no idea that God talked like Elmo and Jesus was always a child.

You may notice that I use King James Version for the widget on the side. For some reason it says "Public Domain" instead of "KJV". And while the translation being public domain and the poetic nature of English at the time are both great reasons to prefer the KJV, the main reason is this: Who would you trust more with the Word of God? Would you trust (A) A period of time dominated by monarchs and imposed Christianity, where all of the monarchs’ tyrannical actions are justified by portions of the Bible claiming a divine right, or (B) a period of time where complete majority rule is an ideal society, where practicing organized religion is unpopular, where nobody can offend anyone, let alone burn them for heresy? I am a Catholic and there is the anti-Catholic royal suck-up Preface, though it doesn’t really matter when comparing these two agendas.

The thief who crashed his car through AdultMart here early Wednesday knew exactly what he wanted: He picked up a $300 sex toy, discarded it for a smaller, less expensive model and then drove off — all of which was captured quite clearly on security video.

Video description on YouTube:

A man drove his car through an Adultmart store to steal a sex-toy replica of an adult film star.

I should start a budget prostitution service called “The Stimulus Group”

Astrologer Suresh Kumar Kaushal has sought quashing of the July two High Court judgment legalising gay sex between consenting adults in private, which was earlier a criminal offence punishable with up to life imprisonment.

WTF???? We always complain about certain politicians tending to mandate Judeo-Christian morality, but this is/was too bizarre!

(WARNING: really disgusting. How could they market this shit to kids?)

Off to North Myrtle Beach, SC in a few hours!

MH: I’m actually doing pretty well right now.

API: So, how has your life been, given the innuendo with your name “Mike Hunt”?

MH: Well…for the first 8 years of my life, I was the most popular kid in school. Then when the sex education classes started, everyone started to notice something strange about my name.

API: And they picked on you a lot.

MH: Humiliated me. Eventually it extended to pranks, doctored dirty pictures, graffiti, bomb threats – one time the National Guard came in. It was horrible, and fortunately at 15 years old I had the guts to rat the assholes out, otherwise I would have been Big Bubba’s Bitch for a very long time.

API: So, that was 8th-9th grade, lots of people hate high school. How was college?

MH: Well, nobody really cared, other than a snicker here or there. Lots of them tried to hide it, but it was obvious. Remember that episode of Beavis & Butthead where they couldn’t do their trademark annoying laugh for a week, and the angry dodgeball coach made fun of them?

API: Oh No.

MH: Oh Yes.

API: And how were you with getting girls?

MH: (laughs) Some giggled, some were scared, some were offended, basically, I’m a virgin to this very day.

API: Who gave you the name “Michael”?

MH: Well, my father Jack Hunt was an sadistic evil drunk misogynist womanizing sexist pig rapist and wife-beater who hated women and children. He died on the day I was born, in a drunk driving accident – it’s pretty sad, all I have are pictures of him and my mom, Anita Hanjob (then known as Anita C. Hunt). My father thought it would be funny to give me a name like “Mike Hunt”. He must have been pretty sick and twisted.

API: Wow…How do you survive in this constant state of embarrassment?

MH: I struggled with depression for many years, but then went through some counseling and have come to accept the fact that my name is indeed funny. If someone asks me, “What’s your name?” I’ll say “Mike Hunt”, then laugh, then say “Seriously, that’s my name. No joke.” or something like that. All people can be jerks, including your parents, the bullies in the locker room, and the hot girls at the bar. We all need to lighten up and have a good time. We don’t live very long, and I’ve got a few decades left to enjoy.

API: Any last words for this interview?

MH: How about we sing a song, since tomorrow’s the 4th of July. “Mike Hunt Tree Tis Of Thee…” Okay, well I have nothing much more to say. Whether you have a mental or physical disability, part of an oppressed minority group, or have a dirty name, just ignore people and try and make light of things. It will never be perfect, and some people will still hate you or laugh at you, but if you have the confidence to say, “Yes, my name is really Mike Hunt!” then you will be the life of the party.

API: Thanks for supporting the Azz Pizz Institute, Mike Hunt!