That was fast.
Wow, the whole week’s gone already! I’m on my way back to Feline Formal Shorts after a wonderful week of guest-blogging here. Thank you all for being such attentive readers, and for contributing to the threads I put up. And thank you to Jill and the Feministe crew for having me over for a week. [...]
...read moreAn Open Letter
Dear Michael Skube, Take a deep breath and repeat after me: Bloggers do not want your job. You seem to be under the impression that bloggers want to do away with the journalistic establishment, and that we want to replace it with an internet free-for-all. That may be what the right-wing, Fox-worshipping dingbats over at [...]
...read moreAmnesty International supports human rights; conservative groups shocked.
Amnesty International has dropped its neutral stance on abortion and has taken the position that women are people, too — and that they deserve the basic right to decide when and if they have children. Christian organisations, including the Roman Catholic Church, have threatened to withdraw support from the group. The decision in April by [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Today is Sunday, right? Give us whatcha got. (Link to a post you’ve written lately and give us a short description).
...read moreFlorence Thoughts
Today is my last day in Florence. I’ve been going on day trips out to Tuscan towns, which has been really nice — two days ago was Siena, and yesterday was San Gimignano. I met some Italians in SG who showed me around and took me to the best bruscetta restaurant imaginable (90 different types [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: Because respecting women means making all their decisions for them
Originally posted on May 12, 2007. For many years, the political struggle over abortion was often framed as a starkly binary choice: the interest of the woman, advocated by supporters of abortion rights, versus the interest of the fetus, advocated by opponents of abortion. But last month’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban [...]
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