It Was Good, It Was Bad, I Made An Ass Of Myself
I wish the bags-under-the-eyes look circa 1995 would come back into style because I’m rockin’ it like a mufuh. Even the two cups of coffee, two cans of Dr. Pepper, and the handful of Stackers somebody gave me at work didn’t deter me from trying to sleep through the jet lag at my desk today.* [...]
...read moreNew Tactic: Make the Target of a Smear Prove It’s Not True
Oh, Ohio, You crazy, crazy place: Here’s a bizarre postscript to the story we brought you last week about the Republican operative who was fired by the Ohio GOP for sending out an email questioning Ted Strickland’s churchgoing record and floating speculation that Strickland and wife are gay. Ted Strickland is the Democratic nominee for [...]
...read moreChecking In
Well I see it’s been an interesting few days here at Feministe, with surgeries (hope you’re feeling ok, piny!) and rape apologists and whatnot (in two days, I will be Travelling Alone With Female through Eastern Europe — start the shaming and blaming now, assholes). Anyway, I’m currently winding up my time in Istanbul, and [...]
...read moreSouth Dakotans Not So Hot On Abortion Ban
Well, looky here. A statewide poll conducted by the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader and KELO-TV of Sioux Falls shows that more South Dakotans than not oppose the ban on abortion that was signed into law earlier this year (but has not taken effect pending the outcome of a referendum this November). According to the statewide poll, [...]
...read moreTed Stevens Would Be Proud
Best shirt ever. For context, watch this, and for a little more fun, watch this.
...read moreWhy Do I Bother?
For once, just for once, I wanted to try to have a discussion about a woman getting raped and murdered that DIDN’T devolve into an extended rehash of the same goddamn argument we always seem to have whenever a rape and/or murder of a woman is discussed: Namely, we start out on topic, then someone [...]
...read moreUpdates
Exhasted as hell and stuffed with chicken and waffles. Went to Blogher with no computer and took notes analog. Met bazillions of people, took lots of great notes. Will update after I get home and rest on the mothership. Also, there are apparently pictures of me everywhere. Although it appears that I willingly posed for [...]
...read moreYou Just Know It’s Bad When a Nun Takes Planned Parenthood’s Side
Ah, Dawn Eden. Such a special strain of hypocritical religious nutbag you are. What’s got Dawn in a lather this time? Seems that an anti-abortion group in Long Island got its abstinence-only education program defunded after the group’s executive director falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood was promoting bestiality: In a setback for his program to [...]
...read moreLet’s try this again (test)
I’m back from the hospital. I’m a little bit sore, but feeling fine. I posted one update already, but tid disappeared. Hopefully, this will work better. Everything was uneventful. I’m taking Vicodin and trying to get lots of rest. Yesterday I felt great, but I’m starting to feel the bruising now. I have no idea [...]
...read moreHumor Break
Things are getting a little intense in comments, so for a little break, a video. Enjoy.
...read moreWatching Beirut Die
Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, arrived in Beirut not too long ago with a camera crew to shoot footage for his Discovery Travel Channel show, No Reservations. His aim was to show the revival of Beirut’s cultural and culinary life after years of war and occupation. Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out as expected, as he writes [...]
...read moreJust Goes To Show, You Can’t Win For Losing
The discussion below, as it always seems to when a young woman is raped or murdered, turned to the kinds of Monday-morning quarterbacking people do after the fact, which always has an undertone of she asked for it. The “What was she doing leaving her home in the first place” crowd has a million of [...]
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