Lucy Tartan’s latest Reading Log is giving me ideas for my bedside book pile. Antivax: new evidence shows (again) no link to autism from Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait Best explanation for the non-existence of global warming ever from Pharyngula… Read More ›
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HuffPo Watch: VPILF.com wank
Y’all know the HuffPo is off my reading list for their UNDERAGE gag (‘gag’ being the operative word), but I followed a link, and what did I find? Twonkwaffle David Weiner enthusing about VPILF.com. I’m constantly amazed by people’s foresight…. Read More ›
Why I Don’t Read Jezebel Any More: The R Word, and Invented Diseases
I used to rather like Jezebel, back in the day. It was a fairly feminist space right in the midst of mainstream online media, with a hoydenish style that appealed. Now it’s just a sewer. The latest? “…there are still… Read More ›
How more vile (and thick (and don’t forget vile)) can McCain possibly be?
He pimped his wife to voters as a potential contestant in a local “beauty contest” that involves skimpy swimwear, topless parades and simulated sex acts – (edited to addwhich to be fair I’m sure he didn’t know was quite so “risque”, but it’s still totally objectifying his wife). (Video here of both McCain’s “quip” and a typical night’s entertainment in the contest) As I’m sure you’ll all
Tightly focussed snark blog of the day
Things Younger than John McCain Anyone else seen any new snarkery around the intertubes lately? P.S. I took this shot on the weekend, of a bride slowly and oh so carefully picking her way through muddy ground to get to… Read More ›
McCain prefers the injustice of the status quo to “more lawsuits”
Republican Senator John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said he opposes a Senate bill that seeks equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits.
Senate Republicans killed the bill on Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to full debate and a vote.
Pennsylvania Primary: what are the good reasons and what are the bad reasons to vote for either Dem candidate?
Just a nod to the fact that a majority of my readers are US voters, some of them are in Pennsylvania, and the polls have not yet closed. It’s still the 22nd over there. It’s a no-brainer that with all… Read More ›
Too depressed to post
I did a lot of catching up on American feminist and political blogs today, and it’s looking more and more like the Democratic Party is allowing the factionalism between the Clinton and Obama camps to piss away electoral goodwill. Look… Read More ›
Chunderama
Kathryn Jean Lopez at Townhall wishes the USA could have John Howard for their next President. In the final paragraphs she gets to her real point, which is that John McCain just isn’t conservative enough, and by damn he ought… Read More ›
John McCain supports pseudoscience
This should hardly be surprising news, as he panders to just about every other kook group that could get him elected, but McCain recently came out and supported the repeatedly disproved “vaccines cause autism” crowd (or at least that a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 