tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183751732012-01-28T19:24:13.702-05:00...we've all got something to grind.belledame222http://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comBlogger14211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-26196522358148081002011-08-01T23:02:00.002-04:002011-08-01T23:04:19.903-04:00

Bookish Foodish Geekish

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Dear used bookstore proprietor person:Yes, you did remember me correctly as the same person who had sat down with a handful of books for roughly half an hour, and then left without buying any the other day. Yes, I was about to sit down with a handful of books again when you told me that unless I were going to buy something, browsing was not okay.Speaking as someone who owns roughly a metric

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I am currently registered Apathetic. I am going to vote for (or against, respectively) the people and measures who/which seem least likely to fuck shit over even more than the alternative(s), based on what I READ from sources I trust, and that is It. No donations, no forwarding the emails to four thousand of my best friends, no joining your zombie blob campaign for no remuneration so that I can

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So apparently the world championship for karaoke singing (you knew there was one, right?) was in Moscow this year. Some guy from New Mexico won (Usher: "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love," if you want to know). The prize: a million dumplings. It seems wrong, somehow, that the gastroenterologist was only the runner-up.There's video somewhere, but it's not that interesting. At least not compared to what

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but, I'm not sure if/where this blog is going at this point. I have some vague thoughts of clearing out the blogroll and redesigning this as a writing/fan blog, with some food, or something along those lines. Maybe.Basically, I'm busy with real life, and I've been rethinking a few things. I'm not posting about them because, bluntly, in the inchoate form I'm in it'd basically come out as a lot

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PROP 8 OVERTURNED. BOO YA.

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You know, if blogger came up with a way to ZOT all the spam comments that have been collecting on my blog like dust bunnies in one go, that'd be ace.Just saying.and yeah, I think I *will* buy that Nigerian term paper about Viagra, thanks.

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I WILL EAT YOUR HEART WITH A FUCKING SPOON IF YOU ASK ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLORSOn a related note:"Women like pink things, possibly because of berries in a forest."

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I've pretty much given up trying to update my blogroll-it seems to have fallen to classic Hoarders'/Clutterers' Syndrome-but I need to say that this woman and her blog are full of win.

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A riff from elsewhere, on the general mantras regarding "you're too fat" messages, which in turn was based on this article with the shocking news that Bullies Target Obese Kids (who knew?):I'm just thinking: the "it's for your health" crap. I mean, even besides the whole, it sort of gives the game away that someone doesn't necessarily have your best interests in mind when they also call you an

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Natalia Antonova has the story from a Muscovite perspective.

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.--e. e. cummings

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Respectively, the Sweet Valley High (and satellites) books, as examined at The Dairi Burger and VC Andrews (Inc), Trapped in the Attic. If you, too, had your formative years at all warped by these literary classics, and had blissfully put most of the details out of your consciousness, now's your chance to have it all come flooding back to you, with hilarious commentary. If you don't know what I'm

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aka: "Shut up, Hamster."Srsly okai.Or, I guess, I had a long sit, as my partner drove. I read Deoliver47's post about 'Ms. Hamsher' and it rather annoyed me. I've lived for most of my life amongst those people who now go by "tea baggers" (their own moniker) and I knew that no matter what happened in politics, I could never accept an alliance with such hate-filled individuals and I couldn't

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Maggie Gallagher of NOM! sez conservatives should have Moar Babeez in order to stave off gay marriage.Which will totally work, because if there's one thing that never happens, it's the children of right wing conservative homophobes growing up to be Teh Gay. Trufax.Of course, none of this has anything to do with any -other- right wing Population Anxiety...Oh.See what The Nation had to say

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On edit: You may want to start here. Or, for a more charitable view, here.**a follow-up, less charitable view by the same author Otherwise, here's the direct link:http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/transgender_a_disease_that_doesnt_exist.phpAnd no, Bil, it's not good because it's (ffs) "controversial," already. You get a modest increase of hits now, because people rubberneck at the transphobic

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Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact

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Read this post by fugitivus. If women are raised being told by parents, teachers, media, peers, and all surrounding social strata that:it is not okay to set solid and distinct boundaries and reinforce them immediately and dramatically when crossed (“mean bitch”)it is not okay to appear distraught or emotional (“crazy bitch”)it is not okay to make personal decisions that the adults or other peers

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to make the ughsome go down.(h/t Ethyl)WANT KITTENNNNNNNNN

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Re this post and the preceding ones.Yeah, enabling Howly Blog does put you beyond the pale. I'm afraid so. I mean, truthfully, personally, I never cottoned to you much anyway, so no great loss. But, seriously? You are sucking up to a couple of vile trolls who would basically be Fred Phelps with a couple of small adjustments. Glad to see you've found a "spine" of some sort, though. It does

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Footnoote to two preceding posts, off a snippet from one of the links. That line, "voracious hunger is a sign of manliness:" Whopper commercials and certain sportsy or fratly subcultures aside, you may not have seen that as being particularly true these days, even though its converse clearly still is. Ever since at least the 80's and the spawn of yuppie culture there's been an uneasy

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(h/t Queen Emily)"Having been purchased, Lady Gaga is on her way to The Rumpo Area wearing a frock with a polar bear hanging out of the back of it. You may laugh but we've all at one point or another been out in a bar or club and started walking out of the toilet with a bit of loo roll stuck to one of our shoes, and this is exactly the same except with a polar bear."

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(riffing off the same SP post that inspired this one)I hadn't even gotten into fillyjonk's other point, the one that started me commenting on this piece, before I got distracted by what felt like the main point. Said other point being: The flip side of this charming worldview, of course, is male anger at women who don’t make themselves available — see many of our friends in that now-closed

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Via guerrillamamamedicine, over at Shapely Prose hits all the points that -should- be obvious, but apparently still aren't, to any number of dudes like o f'r instance this one.We’ve recently had a number of dudes dropping in to complain that asking them to be sensitive to women’s boundaries is essentially cock-blocking them. Sure, they say, if they don’t talk to us when we clearly don’t want them

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("and now for something completely different")Moar! :D

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For all that I wasn't all that sold on the National Equality March, reading the twitstream kind of makes me wish i were there. Somewhat.

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I found another fuckwit, y'all. Yes! On the Internets!! Inorite? I'm too lazy for a recap, I've been busy slapfighting with her, because I am out of chocolate and booze and it seemed like the thing to do, but here, enjoy.

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Belle Dame says check it out.

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Between this charming piece of "art" **and the revolting ads for the motherfucking Tucker Max piece of shit all over -my- city (can't we have a ban?) and the upcoming Roman Polanski nauseafest about to take over the media for the next ever... among way too many othersi am not feeling the love today**the "rape tunnel" would appear to be a hoax. to be honest I hadn't even gotten as far as someone

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Well, I do.Sadly, I can't recount the entire story here, as it involves a listserve whose email isn't really for public consumption. Suffice it to say that I firmly believe that if you anthropomorphize the moon to the point where this story drives you into a state of utter panic and mourning WHAT HAVE WE BECOME, sending out calls for a mass protest and vigil against the "insane" "dudes" of NASA

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As my Irish lapsed Catholic best friend just reminded me. Me, I was all like: Huh? Oh, um, yeah. You, too."bad Jew, no matzoh"Seriously, the closest thing I know from Jewish tradition is the ancient ritual of Chinese Food And A Movie at Christmas. I mean I did use some of the holidays to stay out of school when I was a kid, but I would've used Arbor Day if I could've gotten away with it. We

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(h/t Ilyka)"YOU'RE NOT LISTENNNNNNINNNNNNNNG!!!! I DON'T WANT IT NOW!"It's the PRINCIPLE of the thing, and DON'T YOU FORGET IT, BUB.

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Its simple profundity of obseration and commentary makes me weep.

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The Internets IS Srs Bzns. As is Life, the Universe, and Everything. And where better to go for a healthy reminder of this Truth than the fanwank community. Maud bless us, every one.p.s. my ponies hate you, too.

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And this, friends and neighbors, is a terrific example of how -systemic- transphobia works. Via Helen of Bird of Paradox:The fixation that every citizen is a potential terrorist has gained so much ground in recent years that any concerns about implications for international travellers whose documentation might not match their gender presentation have been swept aside.Now, via The Wall Street

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Limbaugh is having sadly Freudian fantasies about what he (fondly, secretly) imagines Obama and/or other Democrats would like to do to him. And I say again: Not with Rosie the Riveter's brass-knuckled fist wrapped in ten tons of latex and rolled in a kegger of anti-fascist Icy-Hot flavored Crisco. Not if you -begged- on bended trotters. Not for every penny you've made from your noisome

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They're called, "the curtain on the window available for you to get any kind of health care under your insurance plan, even when you have one." And, don't hold back, Progressive Nation:In your free market wonderland every one some how manages to get health care, even those who are poor or live in isolated areas, though the poor and isolated in your own state required assis­tance from the federal

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Because I can't seem to find it in me to comment coherently right now: Maddow on the whipped-up right wing "lynch mob" (quite literally, apparently, at least in effigy) doing its best to kill health care reform. (Watch the next two segments too, while you're at it)Right on schedule, violence breaks out at a Tampa town hall on health care reform. Surprise surprise, the angry crowd was spurred on

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Positively stationary in his grave, I'll bet. Smiling down with austere benevolence from the Great Country Club In The Sky, safe in the assurance that young conservatives are carrying his torch of intellect and high standards. Oh, you remember the Young Cons, don't you? So, Mike Stark of firedoglake got a chance to chat with them a bit: Scintillating, I think you'll agree. And thank the

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Particularly for the profiteers off the current system and the politicians who are ranting about socialism and so on whilst comfortably partaking of government funded health care (the best there is!) for their very own worthless caracasses.In it, this spot in hell, they all get infected with each and every one of the diseases that they deemed not worthy of coverage for someone, and are chained

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is David Frum, Bay Buchanan and Ann Coulter bickering over Sarah Palin. It's compelling like the shower of maggots scene in whatever horror movie I've mostly blocked from my brain that was. i'm just posting this because I already had the tag ready to go, really

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Glenn "Ask Me About My Crawlspace" Beck's latest meltdown doesn't exactly help to inspire...confidence. But it did at least inspire some tasty beats.

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I never really took the time before to read Pamela Whosis of Atlas Shrugs before, I don't think. Not sure how much influence she has these days, or if she ever even really was more than a novelty act; after all, there's -so much- competition among the foaming classes. And that's before even taking Fox News Channel into account. Surfing from Twitter just now, though, landed on this

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In Britain.Apparently quite lucid and passionate about peace up to the very end. I'm always fascinated by stories like this; these are the real time travelers, you know? He lived in three centuries; he was around when airplanes were first being invented and cars were just starting to edge out the horse and buggy.ETA: My favorite stories are the world's oldest verified person ever, Jeanne

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So Rachel Maddow, bless her, allowed Pat Buchanan to display some of his true white starched colors on her show. ETA 7/20: and now Maddow has a follow-up post-mortem of that discussion, correcting some of his erm creative "facts."As per the level of his sheer paleolithic racism, the only surprise is why anyone is surprised. Here's a sampling of Unca Pat's most shining moments over the years,

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I can't even watch:Is this a great country, or what? Even though Alabama's Jeff Sessions was blocked from a federal judgeship because of kooky statements about the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan, he could still go on to become a U.S. senator, and lead a racially tinged charge against the first Latina Supreme Court nominee. Equal opportunity, indeed!I thought that Sessions' bullying and blundering in

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Both expressions of powerful energy...the question is, for whose benefit, and how do you channel it?And, which scares you more?Which attracts you more?** **Yeah, for people reading this blog, pretty rhetorical question. But, if you think I'm being facetious by using musical numbers? Actual neo-Nazis quite like that tune (which, needless to say, was not written as a pro-Nazi anthem in its

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Over at the Moderate Voice, speculation--far from the first I've seen along these lines-- that Palin's appeal is her "regular folks"-ness. That the same lack of polish and grace and knowledge that earned her derision is what attracted a lot of people to her in the first place. And, by the same token, why the people who execrate her feel so very strongly about her. Snobbery; classism, even,

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40 years, people. And:Some cops in Forth worth decided to celebrate Pride weekend with a good old fashioned gay bar raid. One of the victims is in ICU with a brain injury; he may not survive. The cops' excuse? "Monday, police chief Jeff Halstead said the officers' actions are being investigated. However, he also said that officers that entered the bar during the scheduled inspection were

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To brownfemipower, among others, at least for...not helping, let's say. And I was already thinking similar things wrt the "swarming" business. Still thinking. Not the main point here. The main point here is: no women, trans or cis, are getting served by NOWHC at all since December, because there simply isn't the support.And:It continues to be horribly fucking unfair that so many people have no

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“We begin to confront the thingness of objects when they stop working for us: when the drill breaks, when the car stalls, when the windows get filthy, when their flow within the circuits of production and distribution, consumption and exhibition, has been arrested, however momentarily. The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of a changed relation to the human

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-mysterious flute sound-

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I shall probably be celebrating by doing late papers, slouching about & popping Rolaids, but y'all don't worry about me, I'll just sit here in the dark...no, seriously, I don't like crowds. Dyke March yesterday were awesome, tho'. I do love living here...

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If you're a government official and against "public health care?" As in, the government paying for the public's health care? Then go off the fucking grid and stop accepting our tax money for YOUR health care, you miserable son of a bitch. Bootstraps away, eh? -You- pay for a fucking chronic illness or catastrophe out of pocket. No donations, no insurance, nothing beyond your basic salary.

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So, after having eaten at the little table, I go to pay for my sammich at the deli. Counterman who made said sammich rings me up. As he does so, sez:"Did you hear that woman behind you? Sorry you had to hear that."I go, "no," truthfully, was engrossed in my book. Had vague recollection of irritating noise somewhere. Why?"She was just..." the man searches, clearly embarrassed..."vulgar."I go,

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Aggro bird dive bombs pedestrians, smacks 'em in the head.

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This edition, a slight twist on other versions of this wank, at least for this blog: a feminist who has decided that not only is sex a -positive- thing, it's positively -mandatory.- Whether you actually want it or not. Clarissa explains it all for us:Asexuality A recent post at Feministing illustrates the point I was trying to make about tolerance that sometimes turns into a parody of

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Today, (probably not saying this for the first time or the last here), as per thejadedhippy's example (Rainn Wilson in this case, I guess):"O hai! I seem to have offended some people! Oh, look, lots and lots of people, now! All kinds of people! Many of them in groups considered marginalized! Some so marginalized I heretofore barely even tweaked their existence, except as a punchline! People

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Lost home due to foreclosure (o brave new economy), starting new life on substistence farm. send money and/or leftover seed packets from your garden:Alyssa and Crystal C.PO Box 231 Richmond, ME 04357Or to my PayPal, if you actually have money.espacio.translatina@gmail.comsee voz_latina for more details.

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From everything I've read, from the anecdotes that I've heard, from the fanvids I've watched, from the dreams I've had, especially those that involve my going back to school and/or losing teeth, Harold Bloom is an intellectual who cares deeply about maintaining standards. He is one of the few people in academia that has the courage to say that JK Rowling is cliched, and that is a message that

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Tried several times to sufficiently convey my revulsion for these people in the headline and failed, sorryBasically, these shitbag radio talk show hosts--what, redundant, you say? No, wait: really, here's a lower place: Even by the flexible moral, ethical, and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento's Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio

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THESE people are, apparently, completely serious. No, really. "The Young Cons." From Dartmouth*. Word to your, uh, alma mater, yo. -clap- ...pause... -clap.- From their blog:http://www.theyoungcons.com/Stirring up much debate is the verse in the Young Con Anthem:“Three thing taught me conservative love,Jesus, Ronald Reagan plus Atlas Shrugged”This comment is similar to other responses we've

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"It's a feeling I can't name/When sex with ducks and gay marriage are one and the same..."

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wrt the Tiller murder: donate to Medical Students for Choice.h/t Lina.ETA: Also see.

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Meanwhile, back in sunny Cali: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not get the election results he sought. Now he seems determined to show California voters the consequences.In a special election on May 19, voters rejected a batch of measures on increasing taxes, borrowing funds and reapportioning state money that were designed to close a multibillion-dollar budget gap. The cuts Mr. Schwarzenegger has

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One of the U.S.' last late-term anti-abortion providers (you know, only done when women NEED it because of a health emergency?**) was assassinated in Wichita. Dr. George Tiller. In his church, no less. Tiller has long been a focal point of protest by abortion opponents because his clinic, Women's Health Care Services at 5107 E. Kellogg, is one of the few in the country where late-term

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Sadly, the main way you can tell this is satire is that it sounds a lot more toned-down and reasonable than the actual spew coming from the likes of Luddite, Limblargh, Gangrene, Torquemada, and the rest of the Living Dead. Just this modest proposal:We must fight. Today, a white male child will be born into an oppressive society where the color of his skin will only be a great advantage, not an

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If only. If ONLY. ETA: "Where are your goats?"

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Fifteen sexist vintage ads. mmMMMmm, Lysol douche. No, seriously, they did.See, that proves it, though: it's -good- to use "douchebag" as an insult, because what you're actually saying is "Dave? I need you like I need Lysol in my cooch. Byieeeeeeee!"h/t various folks on Twitter including Neil Gaiman.ETA: if you're interested in this kind of thing, Pink Think has more. and yes, I believe the

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in light of the decision that is not a surprise:At what point do the reactionaries notice that the couples who've been and continue to be married legally haven't destroyed the institution or sent the state sinking into the sea? Is there an exact number it needs to hit before the tipping point? Or was Traditional Marriage (tm) -already- destroyed during those few months and we just didn't

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(We're out of cake).First of all, blame mandos for this. He's been enabling my rubbernecking habit like whoa by deposting these links in unrelated posts. Sort of like my cat would have brought me dead mice if he were any good at mousing. The cat, that is. I've no idea how good mandos is at mousing. Presumably they're more difficult targets than The Eternal Moonshine Of The Wadfem Dwama. And

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Dude, Obama often disappoints me, too, including right now, but considering this (please fuck off yesterday, Reid) is what he has to work with...90-6 voted -against- closing Guantanamo. You know, the radical Democrat Socialist-led leftie Senate, blahblah.That is, they denied the funds for closing the joint down and moving the prisoners to maximum security U.S. prisons. But, we always have

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And that's all, "folks."

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You don't want to get left behind.

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.Per Queen Emily. GENDA is in the New York Senate right now. Read it, pass it on, and if you're in New York, you can call your senator today.ETA: but, also, read this comment from Holly, Wrt the hate crimes provenance, why Sylvia Rivera Law Project is sitting this one out. but, also, too, read voz' testimony before the Rhode Island General Assembly arguing for passage of a hate crimes bill.

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Here: UnHingedHips said:Dear Woman Doing Something: I am a feminist and want women to be able to make their own choices. However, YOU are too (young/old/poor/x/y/z)and I think your choice to (have babies/not have babies/sail around the world/a/b/c) while being so (young/old/poor/x/y/z) is reprehensible and you should be loudly condemned for daring to do something like *that*, even though it has

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Homemade video to Lily Allen's "Fuck You." should've put it with this post. h/t Cowtown Bisexual.

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(suddenly wishes she had the Photoshop skillz to similarly conceive a new take on "exeunt, pursued by a bear.")h/t fastlad. ETA: also thanks to fastlad, who really needs to update more often: wow, this DOES explain everything!

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What a whiner:Focus on the Family’s James Dobson yesterday used his daily broadcast to complain about the hate crimes legislation that recently passed the House. Dobson called it “utter evil” and said it will “undermine the rule of law and seriously damage morality and decency in the culture.” Dobson frequently rails against various cultural issues. But as Dan Gilgoff at U.S. News notes, what was

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As in, the Republicans are "rebranding" the Democrats "Democrat Socialists." Which apparently requires a special meeting, and funny hats, and a special dispensation from Godwin agreeing that they are Exempt from the Law as they are officially Post Irony. not from Steele, though, cos no one cares what he thinks.As I understand it, the Democrats were considering holding a meeting to redub the

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Taiwan man sits on can, toilet snake bites trouser snake*not sure what possessed me to pre-empt NY Post headline. probably my vagina is haunted again.h/t Man Egee

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Long as I was lookin' at the PUMAs, I had to check in on the Birfers as well. You remember the Birthers, right? People who still think they can get rid of Obama on the grounds that he was born in Kenya or Canada or both, or Hawaii isn't really a state or they didn't consent to this reality and it's in the Constitution that they don't have to, possibly all of the above. also something about

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over at this Carnival of Socialism edition hosted by Boffy's blog. looks interesting...

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And this hurts me more than it hurts--oh, wait. How Not To Win Friends And Influence People, I mean, I'm -pretty- sure, over at Redstate as documented (and linked, so I don't have to) by Alicublog:Dear American Blacks:Sometimes the very best act of friendship I could do is tell you that the person you think is your best friend actually works against you behind your back, laughing at you,

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.Wherein Joe I'm So Stupid And Pointless I Can't Even Count To Fifteen Minutes T. Plumber says something offensive and stupid as shit. I know, right?While we're on the subject of hateful morons who are the political equivalent of headless chickens (and who would probably cease to exist at all if it weren't for bored and pissy rubberneckers like *ahem* *twist foot* some people who can't help

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Yeah, basically.The sad thing is, I and a lot of other people knew -exactly- what the deal was signing up; it's -still- worth a fierce battle even to avoid outright persecution, and the Democrats damn well know it. Way out? Ain't pining after Hillary (also at least as disappointing during her senate term, would've been exactly the damn same, just like her husband); ain't Nader; ain't McKinney;

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How odd. Somehow, the banks still won. Handily. Sorry, former homeowners who're now shit out of house, home and luck; you know, if it weren't for the liberal fascists, you wouldn't be in this mess.By the way, if you haven't been reading David Neiwert and Sara Robinson's comprehensive (and sobering) analysis of the increasingly dangerous rhetoric/atmosphere coming out of the right wing, you

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This one goes out to Virginia Foxx, (please write your Congresscritter and ask for censure); Miss California aka Won't Someone Please Think Of The Tiaras Children; and of course the poor, besieged, soggy NOMmers (p.s. it's NOT FUNNY. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. NO.)while we're at it, let's throw in the drool-n-bile-soaked crypto-fascist talk show hosts who're using the swine flu as yet another

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.Sort of in the same way that Jimmy Carter reminds me of Elvis Presley. And Kyra Phillips puts me in mind of** Xena, Warrior Princess. AIYIYIYIYIYI!!"This is like my favorite subject matter, especially with you."h/t matttbastard**Actually..

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Pat Buchanan sez that the Republican Party is "heavily white," and that this is "problematic."Next up: Focus on the Family acknowledges that the church may be having some trouble holding onto gay folk. And the Catholic Church notes they've been having some problems with the ol' glass ceiling. Uh...

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is up over at Renegade's. check it out.

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Talking to random strangers anonymously via this site omegle, at Emmy's suggestion. I dunno, conversation-wise, I think I prefer Infocom, or at least BlogWarBot. However:You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! Stranger: HAY BBY YOU LIKE BUTTSEX? You: "Hi" Stranger: ..DO YOU? You: Oh dear, this isn't starting off auspiciously. You: Can you play "Melancholy Baby?" Stranger: I DON'T

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****************************************************************************************************************************** ETA: BREAKING: Jury found Andrade guilty of first degree murder (along with other counts) Life in prison without parole. Thank god.******************************************************************************************************************************Yeah, this is

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"I don’t drink because I do terrible things when I’m drunk. Once this guy was hitting on me, and I pushed him through a plate glass window, head first. Nothing happened though. And I say all these racist things! Only when I’m drunk. But when I get drunk I just…say anything. Is that part of me? I don’t want to be a racist, so I don’t drink."

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by Suzanne Pharr, via Nezua. Go have a read.

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Follow the links at Questioning Transphobia to see why. No, I'm not gonna bother directly linking, or going deeper into an analysis of -how- she's being such a total asspillbox*. It's the same old shit, basically, and QT covers it all. Just FYI.*While -literal- pillboxes can have a certain retro charm, I feel obliged to point out that they do not, in fact, cover one's ass. No matter how

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