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Ah. Wonkette: 10:02 Bush starts reading before he gets behind podium. Clearly would rather be elsewhere. Rather be being interviewed by Dan Rather. 10:03 Iraqi freedom will require “commitment of generations,” i.e., “We will be drafting your grandchildren.” 10:04 “There has been enormous sacrifice by some of our citizens.” No one i know, of course, […]

From Pandagon: —————- Black People Gonna Die Watch: Day 1 The BPGD Watch is a new feature of Pandagon, featuring the best of Bush administration nonchalantness about the shorter life expectancies of black Americans, particularly black men. In addition to Bush’s skillful huggery and head-rubbery of darker-skinned Americans, he’s shown a remarkable propensity to accept

I’ve been paying particular attention to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster case on whether or not file-swapping services are at fault if their users decide to download copyrighted files. Same thing VCR manufacturers had to go through ages ago. And Grokster should continue to get the same verdict that the VCR manufacturers got. It’s all

Cheeky guy.

I know it’s the way I approach a lot of my posts. Good to think about. Human beings aren’t all about logic, really. We kick straight from the gut. Take the issues out of the clouds, and put them back in the bloody field where real people are dying. From the Salon piece: With the

I’d like to point you all to one of my fellow Clarion buddies, Francesca Myman, a Yale grad, fantasy writer, and artist whose website I just recently picked up (I fell out of touch with about half of the class, so it’s cool to see she’s doing well). She’s got fun photos, a lovely art

Damn, you LJers are gonna double my hit count again today. Welcome, welcome. Good to have you here.

I just got a form letter from Naral Pro-Choice America (which I assume was forwarded to many feminist bloggers, and all of those at the aggregate I belong to) asking if I’d post about their Give Us Real Choices campaign against “Chastity Week,” a “campaign” launched by the Pennsylvania State Legislature promoting chastity as a

Via feministing: Here’s some sample “advice” being given out to today’s teens in those abstinence-only sex-ed programs that my tax dollars are going toward. Here’s my problem: this “advice” not only goes against my personal values, but encourages male hatred toward women, female passivity and the squelching of desire, and worst of all – presents

My father was raised Catholic. Catholicism is why his mother had five children (my favorite story of my paternal grandparents’ marriage: when she went into labor for the fourth time in order to deliver my father – having given birth to three girls previously – and they were wheeling her into the delivery room, my