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Friday Random Ten – The “Title It Your Damn Self” Edition

If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Roxanne was kind enough to point out it is already Friday in Asia, which is all I need as an excuse to publish the Friday Random Ten on a Thursday night without anything cool to do like attend the BlogHer conference this weekend. Load [...]

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Cats and Dogs

We’re starting this week’s festivities early.

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Bush Doesn’t Hate All Flip-Floppers

Case in point.

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The Humor Test

This is no surprise, though I should have scored higher on vulgarity.

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Thursday Reads, and My Family On Blogging

Physician, Heal Thyself: Legislating Morality Fact-esque: Rock, Paper, Scissors Man-on-Doggie Style Alas, A Blog: Femininity and Motherhood Pharyngula: Gilder Still Wailing Over His Spanking Suburban Guerilla: Sea Change To Be Determined: Why Don’t The Muslims Just Condemn Bombing? Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Unbearable Logic of the “Pro-Lifer” During last night’s dinner at a local [...]

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The Point and the View

My new favorite blog is BAGnewsNotes, a blog dedicated to analyzing news-based visual representations of politics, politicians, and what essentially functions as propaganda. These images are so often thrown in my face that I forget they are loaded with pro-Bush II administration sentiments. See today’s post on recent uses of the flag, and a paranoid [...]

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Poor Bill

On the Falafel King: Lord of Loofah Leads Charge on Left

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Hillary v. Xbox: Long Ramble on Video Games, Movies, Representation, and The Gaze

Dear Sen. Clinton, I’m writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious “Grand Theft Auto” series. I’d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility [...]

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