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In Case You Weren’t Aware of the Racism in the Mainstream Right

Let me remind you by using a few of our favorite pundits. Take Michelle Malkin’s column this week: Asked to explain the difference between Democrats and Republicans, Hillary’s response oozed with righteous flava (did Bill “Our first black president” Clinton help her practice?): “For the last five years, we’ve had no. Power. At All. And [...]

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Good Things to Read

Because it’s a rainy, windy, gross day in New York and I’m waiting for my favorite Indian restaurant to open, it’s a good time for a link dump. Good stuff to check out: F-Words: I Want to Want What She’s Having, a great post on constructing the female libido. Pam at Pandagon offers up a [...]

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The Best Thing I’ve Heard All Day

There is a God.

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Yet Another Reason to Hate Microsoft

Create a blog on MSN Spaces and Microsoft owns you. From the MSN Spaces Terms of Use: For materials you post or otherwise provide to Microsoft related to the MSN Web Sites (a ‘Submission’), you grant Microsoft permission to (1) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your [...]

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Are Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown Getting Divorced?

I don’t really care, but I really needed an excuse to offer this for download. Sometimes there’s something everybody is thinking and somebody’s gotta say it.

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Conservatives: Supporting Anti-Intellectualism Since 1945

Amanda nicely sums up the conservative backlash against intellectualism, academia, and the “elitism” of people who value education and reality. Read her post, then come back here and check out these fitting examples:

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Fathers 4 Justice Planned to Kidnap Blair’s Son

Over time, several people have been confused on what we mean when we mention MRAs and FRAs. Personally, when I shorten it down to this acronym, this is the batshit lunatic crazy I’m talking about: Fathers’ rights campaigners planned to kidnap British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s youngest son for a publicity stunt, according to reports [...]

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Carnival of the Feminists 7

Two things occurred to me as I compiled this carnival. The feminist blogosphere is much, much larger than I thought (and all too eager to write on feminism and pop culture), and some of you may have finally convinced me to check out some comic books. Put away Teen Beat, fire up your blogrolling doodad, [...]

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When Do You Stop Being a “Teen Mother”?

Because my last crappy semester left this responsibility to his father, I took Ethan to his piano lessons for the first time tonight. He’s in the next room practicing right now, thrilled that he’s finally moving past the basic basics and beginning to get to the recognizable basics. He plays with the keys like I [...]

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