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Bundling Services

Because I work for one of those annoying companies that is always trying to push bundled services, I was really amused that anti-choice bloggers are trying to push the “bundling” sales phenomenon when it comes to Planned Parenthood’s numbers, like counting health services is comparable to your phone and cable provider’s stats. The 3 percent [...]

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Christopher Hitchens is officially Scrooge.

But at least he’s an entertaining old coot. And I would pay serious money just to hear him make up an insult for Pat Boone, who is perhaps the walking definition of a person with only the most flickering of intelligence. You have to marvel at the sheer magnitude of stupidity possessed by a man [...]

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Congratulations, Winifred Jennings!

Need a feel-good story for your Monday?  Here you go: Embedded video from CNN Video (For some reason, the video doesn’t want to work in Firefox for me, but works fine in Internet Explorer. I’m sorry, but it seems to be a CNN issue.) Winifred Jennings is graduating from college at the age of 85. [...]

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Idiot of the Day

Sometimes, the Feministe moderation queue makes me want to scratch my own eyes out. That’s pretty much how it’s been for the past month — something about the aftermath of the election has made the assholes and idiots come out in full force. So I’ve been deleting a lot of comments lately. I deleted one [...]

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