Nicolette: Live 1982.

Just get yourself past the first 50 seconds of douche Rick Dees. Only Want To Be With You will never be the same. Unbelievable backup band.
Christ...I loathe Rick Dees as much as I love Nicolette. RIP Nicolette Larson.
Rincon Rats: the lyrics mean something.

The original from Dusty Springfield: 1964.

Just when you thought the world was safe from Rick Satorum...

You thought Rick Santorum got kicked to the curb - for good. You were beginning to feel safe again, knowing that the nation's Rick Santorum Shortage has turned out to be a very good thing. Well. He's back. Like rats in your face.

Via Politico (the vile portal we love to hate), Rick sez:

 "There isn't a single candidate running for president who can claim to be a tea party candidate. That's by definition. The people involved in the movement weren't involved in politics, and were only activated by what they saw in Washington."

But Santorum said he can lay some claim to the tea party mantle as someone who left politics and is only eyeing a comeback because of the same concerns that dominate the movement.

Mmmmm...Santorum 'left' politics because Casey thrashed him like a rented mule on election day.

"I qualify," said Santorum, after hosting an afternoon talk with former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf near the Capitol. "I was out, content to be out, but now I feel compelled to come back."

Mother of jabbering Christ. Not even the deranged GOP would nominate this dimwit fucknozzle. Santorum feels so compelled to force himself back into The Light because Mama Grizzly is hogging all the headlines. 

Keeping your trashy secrets to yourself - even on FB

No human relationship can withstand complete transparency. Facebook gives you plenty of opportunities to commit social faux pas in the name of "connecting," but there's no feature to help you keep necessary secrets. You have to get tricky about it.

The problem here isn't you, reader. Hopefully you're smart enough not to post things that will get you fired. It's your idiot friends, who are liable to tag you in drunken photos, or write on your wall about the time you made a bong out of a cheese steak sandwich so that your 15-year-old son can read it.

Internet scholar Danah Boyd recently explained the 'risk reduction strategies' teens use to keep their Facebook profiles free of drama caused by friends. But these can be applied to adults just as well. Let's take a look:

The "Super-Logoff"

The super-logoff is the practice of deactivating your Facebook account entirely each time you log out, then reactivating it when you log in. Your profile disappears when you deactivate, but Facebook keeps it on their servers for a few days before deleting it indefinitely since they know most people will come crawling back for a hit of social crack. With the super-logoff you can assume maximum control over you profile, since people will only be able to see and post on your wall when you're logged in. (And, presumably, in front of your computer.)

This would be a good strategy for when you go to Burning Man and don't want to come back to find yourself tagged in dozens of Facebook pics naked but for splashes of glow-in-the-dark body paint. (And it only takes a couple more clicks than logging off.)

The guy who writes papers for your students tells it

The author of this piece makes a living writing custom term papers for college students. Anything from admissions essays to graduate thesis. His annual income is higher than most of the professors who assign the work.

The Shadow Scholar by 'Joe Dante'

You've never heard of me, but there's a good chance that you've read some of my work. I'm a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can't detect, that you can't defend against, that you may not even know exists.


I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. I've worked there full time since 2004. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments.


In the midst of this great recession, business is booming. At busy times, during midterms and finals, my company's staff of roughly 50 writers is not large enough to satisfy the demands of students who will pay for our work and claim it as their own.

Read the entire article here - now!