Space: The Funnest Frontier!
So, hey, Phoenix Mars Lander, anyone? Awesome, right? It landed on Mars! Well, I think it’s awesome. For those of you who don’t spend your typical Saturday night watching NASA TV, the lander is on one of Mars’ polar regions, looking for ice. And by gum, it found some, my friends: This picture is too [...]
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Oh, I’ve noticed.
America’s Shrinking Food Wraps, by Kate Pickert at Time.com, via Yahoo! News. I read this last week, but Frangela reminded me about this morning on the radio as they were filling in for Stephanie Miller. . . . is it possible that the amount of food Americans are buying is, in fact… shrinking? Well, yes. [...]
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Doing the analysis so I don’t have to
Pixar’s Gender Problem, by Caitlin GD Hopkins at Vast Public Indifference, via ill Doctrine. . . . Whenever a new Pixar movie comes out, I wrestle with the same frustration: Pixar’s gender problem. While Disney’s long history of antipathy toward mothers and the problematic popularity of the Disney Princess line are well-traveled territory for feminist [...]
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I’m not a coffee drinker
but I feel your pain: Starbucks to close 600 US stores, rein in growth, by Jessica Mintz, AP. I remember a day when Starbucks could do no wrong. When Lewis Black could rant about building a Starbucks across from another Starbucks. Then came the $1 coffee, and I knew there was trouble a-brewing. Ha! When [...]
...read moreThe War Over Women’s Bodies
I want to write a longer post about this, but unfortunately time does not permit. So, a question: Why are progressive publications buying into the right-wing xenophobic frame on birth rates? That story argues that babies are the new weapons of war — that military supremacy doesn’t do it. And it begins with the example [...]
...read moreA Sundae Never Looked So Gross
This ad is bad enough due to the disturbing, creepy and regressively gendered messages, and lots of people are talking about that. To be clear, I don’t see myself supporting the idea that having men buy things for you is some kind of grand life achievement (one to be impressed by!), no matter what the [...]
...read moreGrameen Bank; Queens Branch
The most diverse county of the United States will have the first US branch of the world’s best known microcredit lender.
...read moreThe Story of Stuff
Cross-posted at AngryBrownButch. Every morning I seem to find some distraction on the Internet that leads to me running out the door far later than I should have left or starting my work day woefully off schedule. Usually the distraction is something like Scramble on Facebook, but this morning’s distraction was enriching and enlightening enough [...]
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