Greatest Oracle EVER
I’m doing this partly to move Che down from his #1 position on this site, and partly because this thing is amazingly accurate: Jill Filipovic, Your ideal job is a Professional Tramp. and when I put my full name in… Jill Nicole Filipovic, Your ideal job is a Gigolo. How did they know??
...read moreTaunting
. Because I can.
...read moreMisrepresent Me!: The Contest
I really love being misrepresented, misread, and misquoted on a daily basis, so much so that I’m hosting a contest. I will PayPal FIVE WHOLE DOLLARS to the person who can best skew the following into a misandrist, racist, anti-capitalist, whinin’-liberal, AmeriKKKa-hatin’ statement: If I don’t count the time I asked my five-year-old playmate to [...]
...read moreFirst Kiss
Echidne has a cute thread wanting to know about our first kisses. If I don’t count the time I asked my five-year-old playmate to kiss me in my closet, at which point he told me he was “too young to make love,” my first kiss was at my first boy-girl party playing Truth or Dare. [...]
...read moreEven More on the HPV Vaccine
Why would we vaccinate infants against an STD? and How do vaccines get on the vaccination schedule?
...read moreBlurring the Church-State Divide
A disturbing story from my hometown. Antioch Bible Church, the notoriously anti-gay institution on Seattle’s Eastside (famous for their Mayday for Marriage rally last year, and for lobbying Microsoft to not support an antidiscrimination bill), uses Lake Washington High School (a public school) for their Sunday sermons. Lake Washington’s principal is a member of the [...]
...read moreAnti-Semitism, Columbus, and nip/tucks: A Mini Round-Up
Dennis Prager on why Jews should abandon secularism and join forces with the Christian right: because universities are bad and criticising Israel is on par with anti-Semitism. Prager’s point, more specifically, is that anti-Zionism is the equivalent of anti-Semitism, and that American universities breed anti-Zionist students. Now, I’ve been at a pretty liberal American university [...]
...read moreHelping Pakistan
Most of you have probably heard by now that a massive earthquake has left tens of thousands of people dead in Pakistan. An estimated 2.5 million people will need shelter. President Bush has dedicated $50 million and eight military helicopters; I have little doubt that the amount of aid we give will continue to increase [...]
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