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Fairly comphrehensive rundown on the Australian wildfire

Fetch my Axe  Feb 11 09

at Larvatus Prodeo, including comment thread. Basically, familiar sounding territory for anyone think "Katrina" or, well, you name it.

Oh, how much have I not missed this

Fetch my Axe  Feb 10 09

see more pwn and owned pictures Catching up a bit with my usual blogs, I must've missed this beaut captured by Renegade the first time around: I think that anal sex is also a good way of saying, "I hate myself.

WOC and ally blog carnival

Fetch my Axe  Feb 08 09

Deadline February 15. See Womanist Musings for details.

I'd like to thank the academy...

Fetch my Axe  Feb 08 09

According to a very clever methodology as used by/noted at Fem2.0, this blog would appear to be among the top 30 in the "femisphere.

Oh, hey, look over at Iceland: world's first openly gay leader!

Fetch my Axe  Jan 30 09

And a woman, also, too, yet. Johanna Sigurdardottir. True, she got the gig in the wake of the entire country melting down totally and mass resignation of the previous government, and is just holding an interim position till elections in May; but, y'know, progress is progress.

Buh bye, Blago

Fetch my Axe  Jan 30 09

Srsly. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.

One unexpected side effect of reading all the anti-Obama crap...

Fetch my Axe  Jan 26 09

I mean the hardcore conspiracy Birther/supra-PUMA stuff, and I swear I'm moving past them, just noting, though: While a lot of them are indeed right wingers, a fair number of them seem to have moved seamlessly from left-wing conspiracy tropes to the current ones wherein if they aren't right-wingers, they play them really well on TV.

Ah yes, the all-womens' college as a nurturing haven from the sexism of the outside world...

Fetch my Axe  Jan 25 09

except when the venal, dumbass administration decides that using the campus to shoot a fratboyxploitation movie (while classes are in session) is a fine idea.

I voted for Obama, and THIS -is- what I voted for:

Fetch my Axe  Jan 23 09

Three days in, thus far, concrete things he's already doing/done: Obama Lifts Global Abortion "Gag Rule" President Barack Obama today signed an executive order lifting a ban on U.

Meanwhile, however, in Russia

Fetch my Axe  Jan 23 09

via Global Comment: Yesterday, in broad daylight, in the center of Moscow, a human rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down.

Happy, not satisfied, and that's how it should be

Fetch my Axe  Jan 20 09

"True patriotism isn't about pretending this country's already perfect, it's about believing it can always get better.

Yup.

Fetch my Axe  Jan 17 09

What she said. The man has been saying goodbye for so long, he’s come to resemble one of those reconstituted rock bands that have been on a farewell tour since 1982.

Mr. Potato Head Goes To Washington. Israel, whatever.

Fetch my Axe  Jan 15 09

Withering take on Joe the Plumber Intrepid Journalist's increasingly overextended fifteen minutes Over There.

Some news is good news

Fetch my Axe  Jan 08 09

Via the New York Times opinion section: President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are already signaling a welcome new seriousness in Washington about protecting civil rights after eight years of erosion.

This, on the other hand, is truly horrific.

Fetch my Axe  Jan 08 09

I'm just going to second Natalia here: I’m not a PUMA sympathizer, but I think this woman’s rage needs to be heard.

Okay. You got my attention. Clap, clap.

Fetch my Axe  Jan 08 09

Mind you, I do tend to be drawn to shit like this; given that I can spend hours at a time perusing David Icke's alien classifications, I wouldn't read too much into my choosing to post on this, but anyway: Most pathetic post I've read in a while, and that's saying quite a bit.

Speciesism run amok

Fetch my Axe  Jan 06 09

. Fuck you, I do love this site. So much. Yeh, yeh, get in line. Thanks to Ilyka for tipping me off.

It's official: pretty much anyone at all might invoke "feminism" in service of their ends

Fetch my Axe  Jan 03 09

Really, I don't know why people keep saying the -word- is out of fashion and needs preservation; it seems to me the -word- is about as endangered as, well, the Traditional Nukular Family and Merry Christmas.

A conundrum.

Fetch my Axe  Jan 02 09

How is it that it is invariably the most backward, least evolved people--mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally--who are the most fervent advocates of some form of Social Darwinism? They look at the world, they see a fallen creation that's nasty, brutish and short (not unlike themselves), and they decide that the best way forward--o, for the good of the -species-, mind you--is to get

The nuclear hetero family=endangered wet trees.

Fetch my Axe  Dec 28 08

(Hey, baby, wanna plow my huge tracts of land?--shit, I don't know...) In which the Pope is unclear on multiple concepts: Since faith in the Creator is an essential part of the Christian Credo, the Church cannot and should not confine itself to passing on the message of salvation alone.

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