Lame jokes
I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and the girl he had a crush on wouldn’t give him a second look. When a [...]
Invisible Lesbians!
Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their unbridled hypocrisy on The Lesbian Issue, vomiting up platitudes about how “Mary Cheney would be [...]
Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73
So he got his threescore years and ten, then. TANJ, except that he simply won’t get the glorious afterlife he’s been expecting. The Carpetbagger Report has a timeline of various highlights of his bigoted authoritarian ranting career. (via Ginmar) Related posts: Savita Halappanavar dead when an abortion could have saved her Marking twenty years since [...]
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame if not being a doormat drives their Martian away, without ever letting a hint of [...]
How dare those Limeys not give us more martyrs?
Crossposted at Larvatus Prodeo This is the frothing, eye-bulging reaction from some of the screeching warmonkeys pounding their keyboards in the US to the peaceful resolution of the British sailors’ hostage situation in Iran. Michelle Malkin, who has described the British personnel as “cringeworthy”, links approvingly to Townhall.com, where Dean Barnett commences the outrage: A [...]
Interesting
From a comment at LP by cam of South Sea Republic: The muslims are the current beating pad for conservatives, yet immigration statistics suggest that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the Australian born (Victoria IIRC is the only state that records the country of birth). Interestingly the next generation, the children of [...]
Gazumped, dangnabbit
Helen got around to mocking Conservapedia first. Related posts: Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit Devastated by Dame Helen The torture-murder of the toddler twins in Queensland Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73
Sexism always sucks, even when dissing the Coultergeist
There’s always some low-level antagonism towards Ann Coulter going on amongst the socially progressive bloggers, and fair enough too. The woman is a hateful bigot who deliberately stirs up anger and fear towards anyone not fitting into her conservative WASPangelical worldview (I really wouldn’t trust her not to believe that Catholic Marian veneration is actually [...]
FFS
Spare me. Michelle Malkin patting some hack on the back for doing a search and replace on a few paragraphs from the of a George Orwell essay, doing the usual strip-the-context bait and switch, as if he has made some profound intellectual point in comparing Orwell’s excoriation of the ineffectualness of the English left-wing intelligentsia [...]
How not to do humour, according to the pros
Rogers transcribes (from memory) some professional comedy writers discussing the Fox Network’s attempt at a conservative version of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show (at Kung Fu Monkey, who has a couple of YouTube clips up from the show). The 1/2 Hour Daily News Hour show is directed by the guy who does 24 (aka Torture is [...]
Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!
Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the Edwards campaign has been going strong. Because she’s opinionated and cusses frequently for rhetorical effect [...]
Poverty and Peace
poverty generates hostility and anger, and [...] peace is impossible where poverty exists. Let’s just repeat Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus’ words for emphasis, shall we? poverty generates hostility and anger, and [...] peace is impossible where poverty exists People who know that they can feed/educate their families and feel that they are performing [...]
Whitewashing and white ribbons
Helen and Cristy both have absolute crackers of posts up regarding the widespread misogyny informing various religious and conservative thinkers who are coming out with variations of “but maybe the mad mufti had a point about you wimmin and your tempting bits, asking for it that is”. Helen’s post title, in particular, deserves some sort [...]
Just a word?
Brooklynite offers some thoughts on what civil unions laws in the US will mean for the common language usage of “married”. Two years after the decision: “My friend Kyle got married last weekend.” “What? I thought he was gay?” “Oh, yeah. It was a civil union ceremony. But you know what I mean.” Four years [...]
Recent Comments
YetAnotherMatt, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, Mindy, YetAnotherMatt, Aphie, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help [...]
Mindy, angharad, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, David, tigtog, tigtog [...]
The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, AMM, Chris, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, QoT, David [...]
tigtog, Xanthë, tigtog, Ali, tigtog, Lauredhel [...]
David, Lad Litter, Megpie71, David
Chris, Mindy, Chris, Mindy, Chris, tigtog [...]
Aphie
Mindy, Mindy, David, tigtog, fmark
angharad, David, Mindy, David, tigtog, Mindy [...]
Megpie71, Megpie71, Sharon M, Chris, Helen, Chris [...]
tigtog, Aqua, of the Questioners, tigtog, David, Mindy, tigtog [...]
Feminist Avatar, Orlando, Feminist Avatar, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, Mindy, tigtog [...]