Broadsides: Guiding light
August 31, 2009 by Antonia Zerbisias
Hey, I know it’s tough out there for kids today. They grow up too fast. Materialism has run rampant. Texting has replaced play and actual contact. And girls especially suffer from body image issues, which lead to self-esteem problems, no thanks to the media. Even six year-olds worry about their weight! School is about to restart and it could set off another round of your daughter fretting about her looks, her popularity, her clothes and…
Broadsides: Facebook him
August 31, 2009 by Antonia Zerbisias
For all the lovers out there who stalk each other on Facebook — and you know how dangerous that is — this from Throw’d TV: Heh.
unrepentant old hippie: Jesus reacts to anti-choicers at clinic protest
August 31, 2009 by jj
Is it just me, or does it look like he’s doing a facepalm and going “Oy, vey!”
UPDATE (Monday): The rest of visinvox’s photos from the protest. Interestingly, the anti-choicers were proportionately a lot older and more male than the pro-choicers. There’s something genuinely creepy about anti-abortion men of any age — I mean, the obsession [...]
the black ewe: Thinking about Skinny
August 31, 2009 by brebisnoire
I was feeling very alone yesterday. I was trying to get some work done at the tail end of a chaotic summer while the kids spend their last weekend before school starts at the country house with their dad. I was supposed to be focused on work, but instead I could only think about myself. [...]
Creekside: Drill, Iggy, Drill
August 30, 2009 by Alison
The identity of the author of the anonymously hosted website Republicans For Ignatieff remains a mystery – Who is besmirching Iggy? Is it a dipper? Or is it a Con? But today via David Akin, we learn there is now a real live Republican activist for Iggy attached to those fingers in the picture at left :
REPUBLICANS FOR IGNATIEFF AT THE MISSOURI STATE FAIR
“AUGUST 24, 2009 –This past weekend, Republicans for Ignatieff held its first Ignatieff Meet and Greet at the Missouri State Fair.
The event was a huge success. We distributed our new Republicans for Ignatieff signs and stickers to numerous GOP supporters. Future meet and greets are being planned in Alabama, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, and yes, Canada.
More and more Republicans agree: Michael Ignatieff is the right choice for America, the right choice for Canada and the right choice for Republicans.”“When Sarah Palin came out and said, drill, baby, drill, it hit a nerve with folks here. It really caught on. If we can get the Canadian version which is “Drill, Iggy, Drill”, or whatever you want to say, we need to utilize that source not only for our energy needs but for our national security needs. I think [Ignatieff] is well-suited to run the Canadian government.”
Hoo boy.
Of course, this would not be the first time a so-called grassroots hoax got a promotion to reality.
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unrepentant old hippie: Operation Rescue humiliated at Carhart Clinic
August 30, 2009 by jj
The fetus fetishists have a new target, and they’re wasting no time in getting a bead on it.
The target: Dr. LeRoy Carhart of Nebraska. The mission: to keep him from opening a clinic in Kansas to replace Dr. Tiller’s, and ultimately, shut him down completely (read into that what you will). Since their escalating campaign [...]
unrepentant old hippie: On graves and pissing
August 30, 2009 by jj
Balbulican points out that, rather than being an occasion to prove that much-vaunted “Conservative Civility” (and imagine that phrase being said in the most mocking of tones, because that’s how I’m thinking it as I type), the death of Ted Kennedy prompted a virulent, full-bore feeding frenzy in the Wankosphere.
The burst of self-righteous rancor spewed [...]
Antigone Magazine: The Feminist Scholar: The Performance of Feminism Issue 1
August 30, 2009 by Kaitlin Blanchard
Surfacing the Female Leader: The Performance of Laura Roslin
I wasn’t going to blog on this until I had engaged the brilliant Mary McDonnell in her question and answer session at the Toronto sci-fi convention; however, she (sadly) had to leave to attend a memorial for one of the show’s producers–my condolences.
I’m in the process of [...]
unrepentant old hippie: “Justifiable homicide”
August 29, 2009 by jj
Anti-abortion terrorist Scott Roeder may end up using “justifiable homicide” as a defense for the murder of Dr. George Tiller.
No, really:
The suspect in the killing of abortion provider George Tiller is in talks with a prominent attorney who represents anti-abortion protesters and has long advocated justifiable homicide as a legal defense in such cases.
Scott Roeder, [...]
unrepentant old hippie: Tomato garden FAIL
August 29, 2009 by jj
Here’s my 14 measly scrawny little FAILURES of tomato plants — they’ve been in the ground (or potted) since the middle of May and what? I’ve gotten maybe 8 tomatoes from them? EPIC tomato fail…
(Oh yeah, there are 2 strawberry plants in there as well, and they’re ALSO an epic fruit fail, having yielding about [...]
Antigone Magazine: The Feminist Scholar:Thoughts from a (young?) Feminist
August 29, 2009 by Kaitlin Blanchard
Dear Readers,
It has been far too long since I have properly blogged and I do apologize.
I would like to offer some reflections on what has been a rather turbulent year. For Antigone this has been both an inspiring and frustrating year. We are so touched and humbled every single day by the submissions we receive [...]
unrepentant old hippie: Senator Kennedy’s funeral
August 28, 2009 by jj
… takes place tomorrow (Saturday) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston:
BREAKING NEWS:
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston will preside at the funeral of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy tomorrow at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (the Mission Church). The Rev. J. Donald Monan, a Jesuit priest who was the longtime [...]
Creekside: The Emperor Strikes Back
August 28, 2009 by Alison
“Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of a Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, connecting our northern Port of Churchill with trade markets throughout the central United States and Mexico. To advance the concept, an alliance has been built with business leaders and state and city governments spanning the entire length of the Corridor.”
unrepentant old hippie: Christofascists say US healthcare system “working”
August 28, 2009 by jj
Apparently the Ten Commandments have been edited for the sake of brevity, specifically lopping off the ones that deal with stealing and lying. I’ve noticed the fetus fetishists on Twitter have recently engaged in the anti-health care reform battle with great gusto, bearing false witness for the express Godly purpose of enabling private insurers [...]
Marginal Notes: My Medical Reality and My Medical Drama
August 27, 2009 by Polly Jones
Once again, I am trapped in an ill-functioning body…essentially trapped in my home as I consume Percocet and Morphine while on the emergency outpatient waitlist for an MRI. How long is the “emergency” outpatient wait? A mere two months. Enough time for me to go crazy with pain; to develop an addition to morphine; to lose out on work and school. The so-called “free market” is not good for the overall economies of regions, but for lining the pockets of an elite few. Indeed, the National Post of all sources reports that the economic cost of waiting for health care…
Creekside: Iggy and Steve : E – I – E – I – No
August 27, 2009 by Alison
“We’re not having an election on EI,” said Senator David Smith. “I don’t hear Canadians clamouring for an election on this issue.”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff agreed to strike the panel [on Employment Insurance] last June as part of an eleventh-hour deal to avert a summer election.
“So it turns out that our last set of confidence threats involved an issue that we don’t think matters enough to be worth an election. But that’s just as well, since we’ve been doing a lousy job of laying the groundwork for one anyway.”
unrepentant old hippie: Stay classy, wingnuts
August 27, 2009 by jj
Wingnut Daily’s Joseph Farah expectorates a gob of green gooey phlegm about Ted Kennedy:
I know there’s an old adage that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
But I don’t subscribe to the idea that when evil and foolish people die we should pretend they were something other than evil and foolish.
And Ted Kennedy was evil [...]
Birth Pangs: Robbing Petra and Pauline
August 27, 2009 by April Reign
Many of those disrupting meetings on health care to trample by folding, spindling and mutilating Godwin’s Law are the same ones who are virulently against a woman’s right to control her own body. How ironic then that by campaigning against health care for all they are also making it more difficult for women who choose [...]
unrepentant old hippie: Rush: Obama is coming for your wang!
August 27, 2009 by jj
Is El-Rushbo back on the drugs again? I only ask because his paranoia seems to be spiraling out of control lately.
This week, laying the groundwork for what will almost certainly become the next feverish wingnut meme, Rush! insinuated to his credulous listeners that Obama is after their Manly Conservative Appurtenances, starting with Little Rush and [...]
unrepentant old hippie: Now is the time when we
August 27, 2009 by jj
…juxtapose!
Order of Canada award recipients rally to protest against nuclear weapons:
Hundreds of Order of Canada recipients, representing some of the country’s leading scientific, cultural and political luminaries, are joining a growing global groundswell calling for a multilateral agreement to end the use of nuclear weapons. [...]
In recent months, a petition has been circulated to recipients [...]
