This is a Job for the Fug Girls
Quite a fashion statement there, Ricky.
...read moreOh, This Will Not Go Well
Interesting post by Nathan Newman at TPM Cafe on what happens when the Supreme Court’s new no-knock doctrine meets the Castle doctrine. It’s short, so here it is in its entirety: Two conservative legal doctrines are on a collision course. Today, the rightwing majority upheld the right of the police to enter homes without warning. [...]
...read moreCher’s So Cool
She visits Walter Reed. She calls anonymously into C-SPAN. And she attends hearings on the effectiveness of soldiers’ helmets: WASHINGTON – The subject was whether to modify helmets for U.S. soldiers in Iraq, but all eyes were on Cher. As photographers clicked away, the singer and actress entered a Capitol Hill hearing room through a [...]
...read moreMission Accomplished
No, really! This is not a USS Lincoln moment. Lauren’s going to BlogHer thanks to the generous donations of about 50 people. She’s even going to be spending some time chez Chris Clarke. Thanks to all who helped get her on her way.
...read morePlacebo
I have to blog light today, but I wanted to write briefly on this article from the SF Chronicle: Prozac is one of the antidepressants often used to treat anorexia, but researchers found it didn’t stop young women from resuming their self-starving ways. In a small study, more than half of the women who got [...]
...read morePromises, Promises
5,000 units of public housing are to be razed in New Orleans, and there doesn’t appear to be any firm plan to ensure that the residents of those units are guaranteed spots in the new housing units that are planned but not yet underway. Smells fishy to me. The announcement, made by Housing and Urban [...]
...read moreWhy CNN Needs to Pay More Attention
So a family-court judge in Reno, Chuck Weller, was shot through a courtroom window Monday by a disgruntled custody-seeking father, and here’s who CNN interviews about the incident: Garret Idle went before Weller in 2005 seeking to increase his visitation time with his two children. Instead, he said, the judge slammed him for more child [...]
...read moreAnd She’s a Natalist, Too!
So I followed the link in Jill’s post to the poor-me Emily Yoffe article in which she whines that childfree people hate her and she’s rilly rilly just trying to help the poor benighted childfree couple see how very fun and rewarding parenthood is, and, like, she changed her mind about being a parent, and [...]
...read moreThe Nomad Fatwas, Edition One: “Life”
Explanation of The Nomad Fatwas, from Eteraz: The Nomad Fatwas is an alliance of free-thinking blogs and a carnival simultaneously. Every two weeks myself and nine other blog-friends of mine will circulate one older post each on a theme chosen by one of the Nomad Fatwas members. You can read more about the genesis and [...]
...read moreHaving Pre-Marital Sex? You’re a Man-Hater.
An excerpt from Dawn Eden’s forthcoming book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On (working title: You’re Going to Hell, Slut*): I now notice things about the men in my life that I never noticed before, like their thoughtfulness, their love of family, their integrity, even their vulnerability. These are [...]
...read moreScorn for Parenthood
Give me a friggin break. The situation is this: Emily Yoffe, better known as Dear Prudence on Slate, received a letter from a happily married childfree-by-choice couple asking for advice on how to deal with pushy people who questioned their choices. Emily responded by telling them that they should reconsider their choice not to have [...]
...read moreFile Under “Duh”
The U.S. doesn’t have the greatest international image. Who woulda guessed? Favorable views of the United States dropped sharply over the past year in Spain, where only 23 percent said they had a positive opinion, down from 41 percent last year, according to the survey. It was done in 15 nations, including the United States, [...]
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