Bareback iPhones

Never heard them called "nude iPhones" before. I always called them bareback iPhones.

August 2012 Budget

This is how I'll be spending my disposable income this month:

Except for my bare bones hair essentials (really this belongs in my rent/food/bills budget, but I digress), all my money is going to campaign donations for the upcoming election. 

The election is in three months, so this is actually very late to donate and still make an impact. Besides the Obama campaign, where my support is pretty obvious, I chose some congressional races that might not be on everyone's radar in case people want to donate but don't feel like doing the research. Every single race I picked is eminently winnable, and I focused on California congressional districts for all the House elections, just because I'm Californian and I feel like it. The one Senate race I'll be donating to is Elizabeth Warren's, because I fucking love bitches who tell it how it is.

You can also donate to the parties' House or Senate campaign arms, the DCCC and the DSCC, if your only interest is congressional majorities. But there's a big fat caveat emptor with donating to the campaign arms, because they often funnel money into races with conservative Democrats. It's not necessarily a bad thing in Republican states and districts, but I personally prefer to have more control about where my donation is going.

The Black List

This is a running list of people, things, ideas, industries, and organizations that I hate:

1. Oil companies
2. Coal plants
3. Anything involving fossil fuels
4. The NRA
5. Anyone who owns a gun (relatedly, anyone too pussy to say that they hate guns)
6. Eric Cantor
7. Anyone who uses the term "illegals" or "aliens" to describe human beings
8. Organized religion
9. Texas
10. Southern Baptists
11. Seventh Day Adventists
12. Pentecostals
13. Creationism, intelligent design
14. The CEO of Whole Foods who criticized Obamacare
15. People who criticize Obamacare
16. People who criticize Obama (you should be thrown in prison and tortured within an inch of your life)
17. SF MUNI
18. MUNI drivers
19. MUNI riders
20. BART
21. People who oppose California High Speed Rail
22. People who complain about high taxes
1. Rich people who complain about high taxes
2. Middle class people who complain about high taxes
23. Strict constructionists
24. College students
1. College students who sit in Occupy tents all year and then don't vote on election day
2. College students who think LaRouche is some kind of hero
3. College students who think Ron Paul is some kind of hero
4. College students who complain about how much their tuition went up and aren't able to critically deduct that the fee increases are the direct causal result of massive state budget cuts and then blame the fee increases on everything from the lack of Occupy tents on the quad to the rapaciousness of public school administrators
5. College Republicans - schooling is meant to make you smarter, not dumber. But I guess you can't really learn anything when you're convinced that all peer-reviewed information is a communist conspiracy
25. Hummers
26. Fraternities
27. Sororities
28. When people call you instead of texting. Join us in the 21st century plz