For those who think women in our culture have made progress since the 1950's...

...There are STILL commercials for vacuum cleaners and other such domestic products that show women doing house work in high heels.

Just in case any of you were feeling too good about the human race today...

Evil Austrian man fathers seven children with his own daughter while keeping her locked in a cellar for twenty-four years.

It takes a lot to shake my faith that there's a balance of good and evil in the world but this comes really darn close.

Writer's Block: Ghost Story

[Error: unknown template qotd]If you know me, then you know I couldn't pass this one up. Most of you know the answer is yes. You probably also know I guarded an abandoned steel mill that was, for want of a better term, already guarded by something that wasn't shy about manifesting itself to the senses, even if sight was not one of them. As for the one ghost I have "seen" I didn't exactly see it the way you normally "see" things, but I'm convinced it was there.