Justice for Julie Amero
Julie Amero, if you don’t know, is a former substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, who was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison after her classroom computer, infected with malware, started uncontrollably displaying pornographic pop-ups that were visible to the junior high school students she was teaching that day. As Lindsay Beyerstein wrote back [...]
...read moreCrazy? Or rational?
I posted about this a bit in the roundup post below, but I wanted to put it into its own post. Here’s what I wrote a few days ago about this movie, and about Burt and Linda Pugach: ****Finally, we’re getting some really bizarrely chirpy PR emails about a new film, Crazy Love. I mean, [...]
...read moreJessica Valenti on The Colbert Report
She’s awesome. Congrats, Jess!
...read moreIs Feminism Global?
I am in many ways a hybrid. I am an African girl who has lived abroad for such a long time that both European and African cultures have become fused together in me. One thing that I struggle a lot with when I return to Tanzania for my holidays is the traditional female role that [...]
...read moreRenewing the Craig v. Boren Strategy for Hate Crimes, or Why Tucker Carlson’s Stupidity Must Be Confronted Head On.
On May 14th, Joe Solomonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign, paid a visit to Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show to talk about HR 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. Here is the transcript of the show. In it, Carlson makes the conservative case against hate crimes laws generally. Solomonese (and [...]
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