Plagiarizin’ Annie
They do say that what comes around, goes around. Ann Coulter’s spittle-flecked invective has long been known to be poorly supported by facts as well as, in Tom and Ray Magliozzi’s phrase, “unencumbered by the thought process.” Al Franken had a team of Harvard students fact-check her book Slander and its 780 footnotes for his [...]
...read moreUndeserving
From Rivka at Respectful of Otters (who’s blogging again! Hopefully now with more cute baby pictures!), an article at the Washington Post about Medicaid documentation: A Medicaid rule takes effect tomorrow that will require more than 50 million poor Americans to prove their citizenship or lose their medical benefits or long-term care. Under the rule, [...]
...read moreMeat Culture
Angry Brown Butch linked to this post entitled, “The Internet Ate My Subculture:” One of the characters in a book I’m reading publishes an underground paper. I used to do that- it was pretty okay. We covered a lot of local news, distributed newspaper-looking newspapers in churches and convenience stores, made a fairly good show [...]
...read moreThat Paralegal Certificate…
Is looking pretty good right now. On July 1, interest rates on student loans experienced the greatest jump in history, with the variable rate on common Stafford loans shooting up almost two percent for students and graduates. The rate hike comes as a result of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which was signed into [...]
...read moreMore on Housing the Homeless
Off of Jill’s post, here’s another New York Times article about housing-first policies for homeless people, which I received via email from a friend and sometime feministe reader: The “housing first” policy that this city adopted last year is part of an accelerating national movement that has reduced the numbers of the chronically homeless — [...]
...read moreIts not an ignorant person.
Brownfemipower on the joys of moderation: I got this comment in my box recently, and I haven’t been able to figure out what to do with it–should I set it on fire? Send it back to the commentor until he fixes all the spelling errors? (can’t do that, my spelling is as bad as his [...]
...read moreShe-Male!
In other, happier news, I went to a Camp Trans benefit last night at femina potens. Charlie Anders did a dramatic reading of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. It was better than I could possibly have imagined. I think there should be a Transsexual Empire opera, or possibly a series [...]
...read moreBirth of a Playstation
Sony apparently wants to capture the insecure-white-supremacist demographic. Or something. Here’s a link to all three parts of the ad. I can’t tell if this is provocation for its own sake, or if the ad’s creators honestly didn’t think the connotations of the ad were particularly offensive. Either way, what the hell?
...read moreIslam and Sexual Violence
A must-read essay on marital rape and Islam. The communal reaction to a Sunday afternoon lecture (taleem) delivered at a Ash Shaheed Islamic Center in North Carolina in May of 2006 served as the motivation for this publication. At that time, a well-respected and learned Imam visiting for the weekend appeared to trivialize the possibility [...]
...read moreDear Prudence, Please consider hiring a replacement. Soon.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Slate’s new Dear Prudence sucks. From this week’s advice:
...read moreA Love Letter to the Bikini
“It is hardly necessary to waste words over the so-called bikini since it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing.” -Modern Girl magazine, 1957 The bikini turns 60 this week, and I extend it well-deserved congratulations.
...read moreWhy Not Lieberman?
Why have so many mean lefty bloggers abandoned establishment Democrat Joe Lieberman, opting to support his opponent, Ned Lamont, instead? Well, there’s his position on the Iraq war, for one. But that’s hardly the nail in his coffin. Check out, for example, his ideas about women’s rights. Unfortunately, the establishment democrats are turning out to [...]
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