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Christian Nation no more

Does this mean they’ll finally stop calling it that? For the first time ever, a Hindu chaplain delivered the opening prayer in the US Senate this morning. Good thing that conservative Christians in the US are so tolerant and respectful of religious freedom, and so very protective of the tradition of opening government meetings with [...]

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“Daddy’s Girl” can kick your ass

And so you have to infantalize her and make sure everyone knows that girls only take on physical activities for male attention. And you do it by writing articles like “Make Room for Daddy’s Girl.” Long before she became one of USA Taekwondo’s top junior light heavyweights, Brandi Powers hated noogies. And wedgies, too. Most [...]

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Health08

The Kaiser Family Foundation has started a great new website called health08 — and it’s a fabulous resource for election-related health care news, information and analysis. It offers news stories, polls, individual candidate bios, and a whole wealth of other information. I could play around on it all day — it’s that full of good [...]

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Snow in July

Fashion Junkie, originally uploaded by JillNic83. “Fashion Junkie,” an ad for Sisley. All class. Glad to see that we’ve moved from the so over “heroin chic” to glamourizing skinny dead-eyed drug-using white chicks as our fashion icons. Thanks to Lauren for the picture.

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Ohio legislator attempts to ban abortion

Just another piece of anti-choice legislation on the long list of abortion and abortion-related bans and regulations. Except this one is an abortion ban with no exceptions – any abortion, for any reason (including to save the life of the pregnant woman) is a felony. As the article implies, we can thank the Supreme Court [...]

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