April 2008
52 posts
People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term... →
“Hello… My name is Matt. My father was an alcoholic circus clown who used...”
– Matt Taibbi: Jesus Made Me Puke : Rolling Stone
“Catholic charities do a lot of good, but the Vatican is a major obstacle to the...”
– Katha Pollitt: Men of the Cloth
“Rather than fuel a cycle of novelty, let’s use this media as a valid...”
– Alice Marwick, keynote speaker at ROFLCon: Subversion, not Sexism, in Internet Culture
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“Did you, for example, ever know a single fact about Joe Biden’s health care...”
– Elizabeth Edwards: Bowling 1, Health Care 0 - New York Times
mySpace + "graphics design" =
“…The Bush administration will be long remembered as combining the...”
– Jeff Fecke: A Quart of Wheat for a Day’s Wages
“Dear NYT,
…We’re tired of all your bullshit complaints that an...”
– Melissa McEwan: I Write Letters
How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to... →
A+ for Abortion Art | Reproductive Health |... →
Yale art student Aliza Schvarts pulled off an astounding stunt — she exploited the ambiguity anti-choicers created between menstruation and miscarriage to set off alarms all over Wingnut Nation.
The Associated Press: Texas polygamist sect is... →
This is a cult that raised girls for the sole purpose of marrying them off to older men so they could be raped. This is a horrible, brutal practice — not to mention it’s against the law. And now these people are hiding behind their religion. BUT: you don’t get to do whatever you want just because your religion says its ok, and that includes (surprise!) enslaving teenage girls. ...
“Well this is bullshit. Sen. David Vitter, a right-wing “family values” crusader...”
– DC “Family Values”: Punish Women, Give Men a Pass
An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George... →
“…By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself. Indeed, if I were a citizen of one of those nations where America is seeking to ‘export democracy,’ and I had watched the debate, I probably would have said,...
WatchOh mah gawd… a decent political ad??? I really hope this is real and not a parody. via
WatchMedia Matters - O’Reilly’s Homophobia
WatchHmm. I’m actually not so sure about this one. I think it’s trying to be non-partisan, i.e. the pro-choice sign has as much screentime as the “pro-life” one… Which is good: the message is to vote, and to inform yourself. My quibble is that the gay kiss is up there for a sinisterly long time — which will probably gross out the anti-gays more than entice the...
“I don’t want the people I elect to government to down shots. I don’t want them...”
– Brad: Sadly, No! » I’m so depressed
The Herald Gets Duped →
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to...”
– Poe’s Law - RationalWiki
“McCain must be defeated, preferably overwhelmingly, a tsunami of passionate...”
– Tideswimmer: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already! - Salon
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“Sing it with me, kids: Obama is not a fucking progressive.”
– Kate Harding: It’s Time to Get Obama-Skeptical
“Guy Tschirhart’s letter to the editor issued a challenge to the readers of...”
– Kevin Cogliano: TheRecord.com - Opinions - An atheist’s prayer?
“In spite of the fact that comedy about politics is now as common as crabgrass,...”
– Russell L. Peterson: Can Stephen Colbert save America? | Salon Books
Pentagon Edited Wikipedia Entry Of Gay Soldier... →
A Wikipedia article about Maj. Alan Rogers, a gay soldier who was killed in January in Iraq, was apparently edited by someone in the Pentagon, who removed any mention that Rogers was gay. The user on Monday redacted details about Rogers that appeared on the online encyclopedia site. Information that was deleted included Rogers’ sexual orientation; the soldier’s participation in...
“Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America,...”
– SFist: Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. Bush
“I don’t know what sins Dr. Seuss committed in his life to be doomed to...”
– Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me: Gender Inequity in ‘Whoville’ (must listen to the whole thing to fully appreciate)
“Comedy is powerful, and best used to *equalize* the distribution of power, not...”
– SKM: HaloScan.com - Comments
Advertising Vs Reality - A Product Comparison... →