at Larvatus Prodeo, including comment thread. Basically, familiar sounding territory for anyone think "Katrina" or, well, you name it.
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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.
Deadline February 15. See Womanist Musings for details.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
via Global Comment:
Yesterday, in broad daylight, in the center of Moscow, a human rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down.
"True patriotism isn't about pretending this country's already perfect, it's about believing it can always get better.
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.
Withering take on Joe the Plumber Intrepid Journalist's increasingly overextended fifteen minutes Over There.
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.
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.
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.
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Fuck you,
I do love this site. So much. Yeh, yeh, get in line. Thanks to Ilyka for tipping me off.
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.
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
(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.