If you know anything about the way budget allocations work, you know that a governmental or corporate department that is granted a certain amount of money and finds itself with surplus funds when review time comes around will find a…
Day: June 9, 2006
Oh, for the love of–ooh, shiny!
Sorry about that. My testosterone levels must be a little low. Where were we? Right: “Men have the ability to focus acutely on just one thing,” says Sarah Smith of Parenting magazine. “And when that one thing is your child…
Vocabulary Test
So, quick: What do you call someone who cobbles together a homemade explosive device that he will then plant in a public building in order to make a political point and to achieve certain ends by striking fear into the…
Hee. “Real soft.”
Eteraz sent me a link to his new carnival, The Carnival of Love and Lust: I am tentatively setting the deadline date for Monday the 12th, so submit. Writings in all genres, images, whatever, are accepted. No pornography though, please.…
Sex-Kitten Feminists
Or should the term be, “fun feminists”? How about the good, old-fashioned “lightweight?” So bitch/lab has some problems with Catherine MacKinnon. She elaborates on those problems in a post. Most of them have to do with rhetorical dishonesty–e.g. abuse of…
Not Surprised
Jessica seems surprised that a federal court upheld the firing of a teacher at a Catholic school in Delaware after she signed onto an advertisement celebrating the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. A Court of Appeals ruled against Curay-Cramer,…
Can You Spot the Issue Here?
Headline in the LA Times: Less Sex and Alcohol for Today’s Teens. Headline in Yahoo News/AP: Hispanic Kids More Prone to Suicide. Same study.