But I Thought We Hated Europe
Sure, but we hate native brown people more. Before you dare praise any culture without European roots, heed the ladylike racism of IWF’s Charlotte Allen. Responding to an archeologist quoted in the New Yorker as saying of pre-Columbian Brazil, “All the settlements were laid out with a complicated plan, with a sense of engineering and [...]
...read moreArgh
In true ADD fashion, I left the computer last night with a series of overheads and lesson plans written up in Word. Did I save them? Did I mention the ADD? Lauren’s to-do list: Rewrite every fucking thing that was finished last night. Take Ritalin.
...read moreWhat’s a Single Christian Girl to Do?
Make the rest of us want to vomit, apparently. Here’s the premise: Single Christian Girl goes to college, is wildly disillusioned because even at her good Christian school the kids are sleeping around and doing drugs. She comes home, regretting ever have left Daddy’s domicile in the first place. Back at home, she realizes that [...]
...read moreGod Hates Sweden
No, seriously. And the tsumani destroyed them. Link found via In the Dark, which offers a nice summary of the right wing.
...read moreWho Needs Roe?
…when rich women have California and poor women have Cytotec? In an unbelievably offensive article, a writer for the Times assures all of us that even if Roe is overturned, we have no reason to fear a return to the days of knitting needles and coat hangers — we’ll have this great ulcer drug that [...]
...read moreEven More on the SG Front
From the Suicide Girls FAQ: 1.06 The staff wasn’t fair to me, who can I make an appeal to? No one. Whining about things not being fair is for grade school kids and college professors. Those of us who live in the real world think you should shut up and move on. Things are becoming [...]
...read moreBanning Books Only Makes Them More Lovable
Happy Banned Book Week! When I was reminded at Roxanne’s last night (during yet another bout of insomnia) I took a look at the list of most challenged books of 2004 and laughed aloud. Dav Pilkey is a household staple around here, especially for the Captain Underpants series. If it gets the little one reading [...]
...read moreLooney Bin Round-Up
The craziest of the crazies. At least, the ones who are published today. Sound the Alarm! screames Rebecca Hagelin. It’s time to intern the A-rabs! Dennis Prager sez, “The Left is hysterical.” Example A: They said that Bush mislead the American public about reasons for the war in Iraq. Which, clearly, is crazy, given that [...]
...read moreDr. Phil’s Son to Marry Ho-bag
Well, that’s what the “pro-marriage” Christian right will tell you. To anyone interested in being thoroughly disgusted, I introduce to you Fredrick the Epistolizer, who I like to think of as Dr. Laura’s long-lost twin (yes, he too over-uses the term “shacking up”). Interesting an episode the other day was about the evils of judging [...]
...read moreScopes Monkey Trials, part deux
Why are we still debating this? Listen up, wingnuts: Science class is for teaching science, not religion. Not “we don’t know, so God must have done it.” Not “evolution is only a theory” (gravity is also only a theory, but I’m not gonna start agitating for my kids to be taught intelligent falling). End of [...]
...read morePerformance-Enhancing Soft Drinks… For Four-Year-Olds
No, it’s not a joke. The latest sports drink, Spark, is being marketed to kids between the ages of 4 and 11, and contains as much caffeine as in a cup of coffee — purportedly to encourange athletic performance (another version of the drink contains twice as much caffeine and is being marketed to teenagers [...]
...read moreDon’t Play Games, Won’t Play Games
NEWSFLASH: When a person acts too smooth to be real, s/he probably ain’t bein’ real. The Guardian reports on a new book, The Game, that teaches nerds how to pick up women by being manipulative and smarmy. The author, Neil Strauss, is lauded as the hero of “the secret society of pick-up artists” and a [...]
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