A proposal that would have granted married same-sex couples in New York the ability to file state income taxes jointly was stripped from a budget bill Tuesday following opposition by antigay Democrat Ruben Diaz, Sr.
…Remarkably, Diaz framed his opposition as an attempt to spare same-sex couples the “insulting” invitation to file taxes together when the state does not allow them to legally marry. Of course, Diaz is one of the senators who voted against the marriage equality bill that failed by a wide margin in December.
Posted: June 30, 2010 at 6:24 pm.
A blogger finds success after pulling a Bronte and publishing under a male pseudonym
Today, Men with Pens blogger James Chartrand revealed that “he” is actually a lady with a laptop. After working under her real name for years, Chartrand was still struggling to make it as a freelance writer. Not only was her income negligible, but “I was treated like crap, too. Bossed around, degraded, condescended to, with jibes made about my having to work from home. I quickly learned not to mention I had kids. I quickly learned not to mention I worked from my kitchen table.” Out of desperation, she started submitting work under a male pseudonym, just to see if it made a difference. And boy, did it ever.
Posted: December 14, 2009 at 10:51 pm.
PETA has always been a bunch of assholes, but at this point it’s starting to look like the animal rights stuff is totally incidental to the overarching goal of portraying women as servile, oversexed (irony alert!) meat-puppets. I don’t think they really oppose meat-eating. They just want to replace the cows and chickens with hot, horny college sluts.
Posted: October 21, 2009 at 3:23 pm.
Wes Anderson. Tilda Swinton. David Lynch. All rape defenders. Heartbreaking.
Now someone needs to start a list of people in Hollywood who believe that being convicted of raping a child deserves incarceration.
Posted: September 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm.
ABC News confirms that it will chase any right-wing “fight” even if it’s baseless; even if it’s “unfounded.” In reporting those fights, ABC News will purposefully exclude Democrat voices from the story. And ABC News, while acknowledging a fight is ”unfounded,” will allow partisan Republicans to blame the White House for the “controversy.”
R.I.P., indeed.
Posted: September 10, 2009 at 7:39 am.
The larger problem is that mainstream environmental publications like Treehugger see environmentalism as a compartmentalized “issue” that has nothing to do with women’s rights. In that view, exploiting women’s bodies is bad, unless, of course, it’s for a “good green cause.” Then it’s just “using sex” to sell environmentalism—and who could disagree with that? I mean, what are you, a prude?
The other “Angry Green Girls” videos show bikini-clad women lathering up Priuses and “rejecting” men who don’t happen to drive hybrids—the subtext being that if you choose the right car, these women will be sexually available to you. Here, the message is that women are objects to be obtained through the right male behavior—no different, really, than suggesting that if you buy her dinner, she’d better put out.
Posted: September 3, 2009 at 7:14 pm.
During the week of August 10-16, the topic of health care, and specifically the politics and the protests of health care, accounted for a staggering 62 percent of all cable news coverage, according to the Pew Research Center’s weekly survey. My guess is that you would be hard-pressed to find a single week during the run-up to the Iraq war when liberal anti-war protests accounted for just 6 percent of the cable news coverage.
Why the gaping disparity? And how come Dean’s anti-war anger was out of bounds, but mini-mob anger is perfectly acceptable? How come liberal anti-war protesters were shunned by the press, but the mini-mobs are showered with incessant coverage? It’s because apparently when angry — and overwhelmingly white — conservatives protest, they come attached with a direct line to the American psyche. Liberals, though, most certainly do not.
Bottom line: Liberal protesters don’t tell us anything about the mood of America. But angry right-wingers do, according to the press.
Media: Angry right-wingers are important; angry libs are annoying | Media Matters for America
Posted: August 26, 2009 at 3:49 pm.
Mike Tyson, convicted rapist, gives the Jonas Brothers a haircut at the Teen Choice Awards while making a joke about how he “hates seeing people get hurt.”
Disturbing that of all the things he could do, Mike Tyson is trying to make his comeback by associating himself with stuff that 13-year old girls find cool.
Posted: August 13, 2009 at 12:44 pm.
Do I file this under “stupid” or “evil”?
Posted: July 28, 2009 at 6:11 pm.
Jon Stewart = America’s Most Trusted Newscaster.
via Time Magazine.
Posted: July 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm.
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