Fetuses First
Amelia, a 27-year-old Nicaraguan woman, has a ten-year-old daughter. She also has cancer and desperately needs treatment, but is being denied care because she’s pregnant. Abortion is entirely illegal in Nicaragua, even in a case like Amelia’s where she needs a therapeutic abortion to save her life. In Amelia’s case, it’s not just abortion that [...]
...read moreThe Ladies of CPAC
Republicans would like you to know that they aren’t all old white men, and that their movement is actually really hip and young. Why? Chicks! [Anyone have time to do a transcript?] Amanda covered this one pretty well, but I think it’s particularly interesting that the video starts out with, “At CPAC this year, the [...]
...read moreTiger Woods: A Great Role Model
Read it and hurl. I would like to point out that, in addition to lauding men who cheat (and do worse) just so long as they say sorry, the author actually uses the phrase “it’s raining whores.”
...read moreIntentionally flying planes into buildings because you don’t like a particular government: Terrorism or no? Let’s debate.
Newsweek editors and reporters discuss the use of the word “terrorist” and essentially conclude that it’s mostly applicable to foreigners with beards. The conversation is an off-shoot of the story of the IRS “protestor” (as the Wall Street Journal designated him) who flew his plane into an IRS building because he didn’t like paying taxes. [...]
...read moreHealthcare reform march in DC this Wednesday
I feel like I should pass this along for those of you still optimistic we can get something good through Congress… from MomsRising: For the last week, a group of health insurance company survivors has been walking from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. in honor of Melanie Shouse, a healthcare activist, who had breast cancer and [...]
...read moreThe Left’s Top 25 Journalists
Glad to see so many awesome new media types on this list, including the always-wonderful Rachel Maddow and Feministing founder Jessica Valenti. Less promising: Only 7 women on a list of 25. And I don’t know the racial background of everyone pictured, but on first glance (and from what I do know about a lot [...]
...read moreVA State Legislator: Disabled kids are a punishment from God
Well this is a new level of offensive and disgusting. At an anti-choice press conference in Virginia, staged to encourage the state legislature to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, Republican state representative Bob Marshall told the audience that: “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. [...]
...read more16 and Pregnant
Jessica Grose has a great piece up on Slate today about the MTV show 16 and Pregnant, asking whether it actually deters teenagers from pregnancy or whether it’s simply exploitative (or both). I’ll admit to watching (and enjoying, at least partly) the first season of the show, but after watching the Janelle episode that Grose [...]
...read moreNaïveté and Submission
A French anti-smoking ad compares smoking to oral sex, with the slogan “To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco.” The New York Times describes the visuals of the ads thusly: The slogan is bland enough: “To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco.” But it accompanies photos of an older man, his [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
You know how this goes. Hope you’re having a marvellous day!
...read moreThursday LOST Roundtable: The Substitute
Spoilers below! This week was a Flocke & Locke episode – off the island we see Locke struggling to accept his disability at his job and with Helen. Meanwhile, Flocke is trying to recruit on the island and shares some info with Sawyer, his new recruit. Read our reactions and then leave your own – [...]
...read moreSi son de amores vengan derechas
The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh by Varda Polak-Sahm (Beacon Press) One clear evening in Jerusalem, Varda Polak-Sahm shows up alone at her neighborhood mikveh – a ritual bath for Jewish women – to purify herself before her second wedding. After her first mikveh experience, during which she kept her out-of-wedlock [...]
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