The Brutality of Beauty
“Shoes “are almost becoming torture instruments. During a woman’s daily make-up ritual, on average she will expose herself to more than 200 synthetic chemicals before she has morning coffee. Regular lipstick wearers will ingest up to four and a half kilos during their lifetime.” Sheila Jeffreys, “the Andrea Dworkin of the UK,” is back with [...]
...read moreHip 2 B anti-choice
Both pro- and anti-choice groups are vying for the youth of America – and some of the rhetoric and tactics on the anti side are pretty scary. The Genocide Awareness Project, part of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, based in Santa Fe Springs, travels to public universities for two-day “shows” that feature huge full-color signboards [...]
...read moreNewsflash: Abstinence-Only Ed Misleads
Thanks, WaPo, for this shocker: A government Web site intended to help parents and teenagers make “smart choices about their health and future” includes inaccurate or misleading information that may alienate some families or prompt riskier behavior, according to a team of medical experts who reviewed the material. Three physicians and a child psychologist analyzed [...]
...read moreThe New Wife
Perhaps The Today Show needs a little help from Oxford Old English — they seem to be a bit confused about the definition of the word “new“: It was the first report in the Today Show’s week-long series, “The Changing Marriage” — a look at “how kids, lack of time together, previous marriages, and taking [...]
...read moreBuddies
Another early post usually reserved for Friday. They finally resemble something close to friends, meaning Doug terrorizes Pablo with love as much as he generally antagonizes him. Pablo tolerated this cuddle time long enough for me to get the photo, then jumped off the bed looking generally pissed off.
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The “Ongoing Investigation By Investigators” Edition
This FRT is coming out early because I will soon be leaving the computer for the duration of the next 24 hours. My garden calls and I’m spreading hay inbetween the rows and rows of tomatoes. Additionally I decided to resume my old workout routine and have been kicking my own ass at the YWCA [...]
...read moreRepublicans: There’s Money In It For You
$50 Reward… …to the first Republican who publically fesses up* and admits that Karl Rove is guilty of outing a CIA undercover operative.** Players should leave a link to the appropriate post in comments below. * I need to be sufficiently convinced that (a)you are a Republican and (b)your “fessing up” is genuine. ** michele: [...]
...read moreBody Impolitic and the Dove Campaign
Badgerbag pointed out an interesting blog that studies the Body Politic, aptly named Body Impolitic. See their picture galleries of beautiful unconventional nudes. One of the first posts on their blog today discusses the Dove brand “Campaign for Real Beauty,” a campaign that I was at first skeptical about. Looking at their site, however, has [...]
...read moreMalkin (hearts) Discrimination
Michelle Malkin, esteemed author of “In Defense of Internment,” invites us to “Meet America’s Friend“: A pizza owner who refused to serve Germans or Frenchmen. Since when, I have to ask, is patriotism or supporting America about discriminating against others, who as individuals have done nothing anti-American? I wonder what Malkin’s reaction would be if [...]
...read moreSex makes you happy
File under “Duh.” But it’s good to know that having a lot of sex will make you happier than having a lot of money.
...read moreMailer v. Kakutani
Sounds like somebody’s scurred. And he deals with it by launching ridiculous insults at Michiko Kakutani, one of the New York Times’ best book reviewers. Long-time misogynist Norman Mailer tells a Rolling Stone interviewer: Kakutani is a one-woman kamikaze. She disdains white male authors, and I’m her number-one favorite target. One of her cheap tricks [...]
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