Friday Random Ten – The “It’s Been Nice To Get Email Again” Edition
1. Platinum Pied Pipers – I Got You 2. Sufjan Stevens – Adlai Stevenson (from a Kill Rock Stars comp, beats the album version hands down) 3. Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around 4. PJ Harvey – Highway ’61 Revisited (we do like ourselves a cover song) 5. Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk to [...]
...read moreThe Girl, The Body, and the Pill
Trailer from the 1967 exploitation flick of the same name. link via fellow Hoosier Mark
...read moreThe Best Way to Punish Sexual Offenders
Have them write apologetic letters to their victims. That’ll teach ‘em! via
...read morePoster Children
Blue said she likes synthesis, so I thought I’d post about some uncomfortable similarities I’m seeing between her description of the “Jerry’s Kids” phenomenon and volunteer contributions to Africa as described in this New York Times article, which Hysterical Blackness linked to a few days ago.
...read moreWhat the “Boy Crisis” is Masking
Shakespeare’s Sister has a righteous post up about how the manufactured “boy crisis” in education and the drive for single-sex classes and teaching boys and girls differently is just a way to reinforce retrograde gender stereotypes while masking the real problem: inadequate educational opportunities for poor kids.
...read moreUnconstitutional
Breaking news: A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional. The judge’s ruling is here. A bit about the judge herself: Anna Diggs Taylor was the first black woman appointed as a federal judge in Michigan, and now serves as the first black woman to be Chief [...]
...read moreThe Gendered Menu
In comments to this post at Feministing showing a menu with different prices listed for men and women, Sailorman mentioned this Diner’s Journal entry at the New York Times about the not-quite-complete disappearance of menus without prices: Do expensive restaurants still keep many of these menus on hand? Get many requests for them? I called [...]
...read moreSo, How’s That Abstinence-Only Thing Working Out For Ya?
Not too good, in the case of a high school in Canton, Ohio, where 13% of the female students fell pregnant: There were 490 female students at Timken High School in 2005, and 65 were pregnant, WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported. The new Canton school board program promotes abstinence but also will teach students who decide [...]
...read moreO, Happy Day!
Coffee may reduce your risk of certain diseases. It is truly the Nectar of Life!
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