The following post is a guest submission from musician Allen Murdoch. Allen is one of the founders of the Skeptical Libertarian Facebook page. His personal blog can be viewed here and his Youtube page (featuring his music) can be found here. You can also buy his album, Ashes of Stellar [...]

Look folks, it’s 2:55 pm 4:21 pm and I’ve been drunk for about two hours now. Consider this your Giftmas Miracle! (And by “miracle,” I mean, “I FUCKIN’ WISH!”) Not exactly safe for work, unless you work at Antiwar.com. Merry whatever the hell you celebrate, even if it’s video games, [...]

Full disclosure: I have known Lauren Smith, one of the subjects of this blog post, for over five years. We are online friends, and I first “met” her through a feminist community I once co-moderated. An estimated 22 anti-capitalist protesters were arrested on Saturday after police clad in riot gear [...]

Item #12 on the list! It’s December 20th. You’ve gotten most of your shopping out of the way, but you still have some unfinished holiday business. Whether you’re a procrastinator, broke, found out that your nephew’s girlfriend will be showing up to Christmas dinner after all, haven’t the foggiest clue [...]

A few weeks ago, I stopped at my favorite local thrift store and spied a brand new pack of IKEA tealights. As soon as I saw them, I knew they were begging to be glittery and shiny! Even if you don’t luck out and score candleholders for $.99 like I [...]

For awhile now, I’ve wanted to start doing a thrifty living type of column for Gonzo Times. I know that there are a lot of sites dedicated to thrifty living, but  I think GT readers (and contributors!) can provide a different perspective than the typical thrifty website. One of the [...]

I love making soups because as long as all the flavors gel together, you can pretty much toss in whatever you want and all will be right with the world. They freeze great and homemade soup always seems to be super filling. On this one, I purchased some split peas [...]

I love love love love LOVE Halloween. I love costumes and corny Halloween themed foods (which are usually just the same dishes you’d normally eat/serve, but with some terrible pun or hokey decoration) and decorations and scary movies and candy. It’s the only time of year that I’m overwhelmed by [...]

1 whole pineapple (small dice) 1/4 red onion (small dice) 1/4 cup red pepper (small dice) 1 jalapeno (small dice) Juice and zest of 1 lime 1/2 cup of mint (packed and minced) Salt & pepper (to taste)   Toss all the ingredients together in a bowl and season to [...]

(Image courtesy of XKCD.) Recently, I was accused of not hating the state enough. I thank that person for the external validation. My goal is not to hate the state at all. In fact, I find hating in general to be counter-productive. It clouds the mind’s rational capacity. It weakens [...]

I — like probably every Gen Xer — remember where I was on 9/11/01 when the World Trade Center was attacked. I remember one of my co-workers coming up to the front desk (where I was answering phones) and telling me that a plane just flew into the World Trade [...]

I guess this is why Kathy Parker’s bags were ransacked! At what point does an airport search step over the line? How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account? That’s the complaint leveled by Kathy [...]

Cross posted at DrunkenAtheist.com So, people are understandably pissed over Glenn Beck’s assertion that only hookers need Planned Parenthood. Now, the statement is (obviously) really fucked up for a lot of reasons. I don’t have the time or patience to unpack all of the shitty implications about sex workers from [...]

When the news broke Charlie Sheen’s latest…well, Charlie Sheen moment…I was one of the many people who appreciated sage wisdom like “sorry my life is so much more bitchin’ than yours. I planned it that way.”  My boyfriend and I snarked to one another in Google chat while I franticly [...]