October, 2006
Brief Respite
Sometimes Dr. Socks gets so upset with the torture-legalizing woman-hating dog-killing news that her nerves start to get a little shaky and she has to think about Something Completely Different for awhile. You can always tell when Dr. Socks is having one of these episodes because she begins referring to herself in the third person. [...]
Let’s see how many euphemisms for torture we can come up with
Today Torture President signed the bill legalizing torture (including rape) and rescinding habeas corpus. Do you suppose this is being reported accurately in the national news? If you do, then is there room under that rock for me too? Here are the headline phrases used to describe this bill, piping hot and fresh from my [...]
The New York Times blames the patriarchy
Bob Herbert seems to be channeling the Great Spinster Aunt (though not, alas, her superior writing ability). This is his column from yesterday, which I’m going to release from its gilded Times Select cage and reproduce here in its entirety. “Who needs a brain when you have these?” — message on an Abercrombie & Fitch [...]
I am a statistical improbability
HowManyOfMe.com There are:0people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Via Lauren.
The Trouble With Hillary
Rebecca Traister has an article in Salon today about feminist attitudes towards Hillary Clinton. In case you didn’t know, we’re divided. Most of us I think will vote for her if she’s the nominee, because any Democrat is better than any Republican. But do we want her to be the nominee?
Personally I think Thor is more plausible than Yahweh anyway
In this amusing interview in Salon, Richard Dawkins discusses why religion is both inane and dangerous. Of course he’s mostly talking about the Abrahamic religions, because as he accurately observes, belief in Apollo and Thor has pretty much died out. What I’ve been wondering for about 35 years now is why the believers in Yahweh [...]
Mad Pharmacist Disease crosses the pond to Britain
They gave us Mad Cow Disease; now we’re giving them Mad Pharmacist Disease. Witchy limns this shocking news item from South Yorkshire: In short: on advice from her GP, woman goes to local chemist for morning after pill (EC). Pharmacist declines to supply said medication because “it was against his religious beliefs” and refers woman [...]
Worms
My blog is famous for thread drift (well, as much as anything about my blog can be famous), but I’m going to be pro-active here and start a proper post for the issues raised in this comment, which is threatening to massively derail the thread where it was originally posted. Which thread was approaching an [...]
Goddamnit, my head just exploded again
Via Think Progress via Atrios via a comment at Pandagon, here’s Bush’s reaction to the news that 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war: I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to — you know, that there’s a level of violence that [...]
All your questions answered (and by the way, I’m selling the blog to Focus on the Family)
For those of you following the saga of Alas and the Pornographer, Barry has spoken: Yes, he knew there would be porn. Yes, he understood that the internet rating for Alas would drive up the search engine rankings for the pornographer. No, he doesn’t think it’s such a bad thing. Yes, he should have been [...]
