January, 2006
I’m just worried about the altar boy
It’s gotten to where if some politician or Christian godbag speaks out against the evils of homosexuality, I’m pretty much gonna assume he’s gay. This week, a prominent Southern Baptist preacher was arrested for soliciting gay sex from an undercover cop. Yeah, yeah. But then, poking around a bit (ahem) into this guy’s background, I [...]
Battle of the Time Machines
Surely everybody’s heard by now of the David Brooks op-ed piece last Sunday, in which he took Linda Hirshman to task for engaging in a “full-bore, unapologetic blast of 1975 time-warp feminism.” Apparently Bobo felt that the best way to counter this time-warpism would be to climb into a time machine of his own and [...]
Welcome to the Memory Hole!
Something seems to be missing today from the Google News front page. There are lots of stories — let’s see, dead miners, dead teenager in Australia, dead former rock star in Virginia, dead people in a landslide. There’s political stuff — Abramoff mess, Patriot Act renewal. But something’s missing…. wait, I know what it is! [...]
Nun to President Bush: Bite Me
Well, almost. Sister Joan Chittister muses aloud on the difference between the Monica Lewinsky scandal and this little spying thing — and, in ever-so-gentle, nunly fashion, rips Shrub a new one: It’s one kind of scandal when a president cannot control a need for sexual satisfaction. What the moral theologians have traditionally called “the sins [...]
It’s a Dictatorship Now
Atrios has it: 2005 was the year that the president of the United States declared proudly that he had broken the law repeatedly and with full intention, that he had the power to do so whenever he wanted to, and that he would continue to do so whenever he determined it to be desirable. [snip] [...]
Radical Feminism
The following is cross-posted from the ongoing discussion at “Alas,” where I fear my comment may have been swallowed and rejected by the cyber gods. So here it is, unswallowed and unrejected: Radical feminism encompasses two big ideas: 1. Gender inequality is a deep-structure issue, interwoven with the very fabric of society. Confronting it means [...]
Christmas Surrenders! Exhausted Holiday Admits Defeat
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The War on Christmas finally ended yesterday when the embattled holiday surrendered unconditionally to secular forces. The instrument of surrender was signed at the perfume counter of Bergdorf-Goodman’s at 3pm, with Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore co-representing the victorious Secular Allied Command. The surrender came after a week of sporadic fighting [...]
A Blog of One’s Own
Because it’s time. I’m Dr. Violet Socks, and no, that isn’t my real name and that isn’t really me in the picture. I am, however, a genuine reclusive leftist, feminist, and pedant! So there is at least some truth to be found in this little blog. My goals for this blog are humble: 1. Defeat [...]
