April, 2006
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Sex Party over at the Countess’s
Several regular readers of this blog are also regular readers of the Countess, who’s been AWOL for a few weeks working on some freelance articles. (No word if she’s also got a futuristic novel in the works and whether it’s better than mine, Paul’s, and Alon’s.) But she’s back on the blog for a few [...]
Studly Studies
There are now 92 headlines in Google News about the new male contraceptive, all of them variations on the following: “Male birth control pill reversible!” “Male contraceptive pill will not damage male fertility!” “Men on birth control pill are still XXX hot studs!” Okay, I made up that last one, but that’s pretty much what [...]
You know you’re a soulless hack…
…when you read about global dimming and the impending destruction of life as we know it and all you can think is, “How can I work this into my novel?” ***** via Twisty.
“Why do you hate men?”
A question for other feminist women: do people actually ask you that in real life? I mean real life, not blogland, where knaves run free and idiocy is untrammeled. I realize I’ve led a privileged existence, but I’ve only personally encountered one guy who thought feminism meant hating men. Him: (shocked) You’re a feminist? Me: [...]
Right on schedule
Steps to war: 1. Identify the target nation as “evil”: check! 2. Accuse target nation of harboring terrorists: check! 3. Announce that target nation has capability of creating dreadful weapons: check! 4. Warn that the U.N.’s credibility is at stake unless it acts to restrict target nation: check! Next we’ll have an insistence on time [...]
Tony Snow: same job, different office
Hiring Fox commentator Tony Snow as the new White House spokesman seems redundant to me. Snow, like everybody else on the payroll at Fox, is already a White House spokesman. Is there really a need to give him an office in the West Wing and pay him a government salary? He’s been doing fine right [...]
Feminism in Iran means the only owner you have to report to is your husband
Here’s a piece in the Guardian about the new crackdown in Iran on women who depart from the Islamic-sanctioned dress code of giant black Hefty bag and ski mask. Fines, jail time, street arrests, the whole bit. That’s sickening enough, but the real heart-stopper is here: Young women shopping in north Tehran’s fashionable Tajrish neighbourhood [...]
HIV gel: But will it work with a potpourri sachet?
It’s Day 2 of Condoms, AIDS, and Sub-Saharan Africa here at the Reclusive Leftist. Researchers are announcing development of a new vaginal gel that will help women protect themselves from HIV transmission. It sounds great, though the question that immediately comes to mind is: aren’t condoms already more effective than any gel? And then one [...]
Cardinal says condoms okay for diseased married people!
The retired archbishop of Milan, who is obviously some kind of raving moonbat, has said that for married people with AIDS, a condom is a “lesser evil.” Woo hoo! This is a daring position for a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of Sperm Worship. The Vatican observes a sort of Prime Directive for sperm: [...]
