July, 2008
Pope denounces New Yorker cover
Just kidding. But I bet you would’ve believed me, right? This thing is turning into one of those kabuki theatre type deals, where everybody feels like they have to line up in the hall and prove their good-citizen credentials with a ritual condemnation of Whatever The Heinous Thing Is. People are scrambling to get their [...]
The Pope can fly!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperPope! Did you know the Pope was down in Australia on some kind of dinner cruise/reef-snorkeling vacation package thing? I didn’t either. But he’s down there, and yesterday he addressed billions of pilgrims in Sydney, warning them against “the tedium of false idols and the pain of false [...]
Continuing the conversation on Islam
A couple of weeks ago I posted this link to Apostate’s compelling essay, Why Honor Killings Are A Religious Issue. In light of the New Yorker discussion of the extent to which Islamophobia is racist, sassysenora posed the following question: i agree completely that attacks on Muslims are more than simple racial bigotry. the bigotry [...]
People really, really don’t understand satire
One of the countless addled comments floating in the tubes concerning the New Yorker cover: The cartoonist should have drawn a picture of Obama with the word “N****r” written in bold over it, then explained he was only trying to make the racists look rediculous, and that it was only satire. hows that for satire. [...]
The New Yorker was just messin’ with you, man
The possums are having themselves an epic wankfest over the New Yorker cover showing Michelle and Barack as a couple of revolutionary/Muslim/terrorist types. The illustration is an obvious satire on rightwing tropes, especially since the accompanying article is about how much of a non-revolutionary Obama really is. The dude is a creature of the Chicago [...]
Comment of the day
From sassysenora, who perfectly captures the mood of the week, as everyone sort of collectively goes, “Jesus Christ. We nominated this guy?” the only upside i can see to this is that the Dems cannot beat us over the head with Roe v Wade anymore. Obama’s said twice now that he disagrees with Roe. if [...]
If Obama were a Supreme Court appointee, he’d be part of the Scalia bloc
One of the ironies of this election is the argument that, no matter how much Obama may disappoint us, we still have to vote for him in order to preserve Roe v. Wade. We must have a President Obama to appoint liberal judges to the Supreme Court! cry the possums. The problem is that Obama [...]
Obama comes out in favor of forced pregnancy (and manages to belittle mental illness at the same time)
Via TalkLeft, quoting the AP: In an interview this week with “Relevant,” a Christian magazine, Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain “a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother.” Obama then added: “Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has [...]
PUMA Independence Day
Happy Fourth of July! In the grand tradition of American political declarations, a group of PUMAs have prepared a declaration — part Declaration of Independence, part Declaration of Sentiments, part Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (okay, that’s not American, but whatever). The lead author is Anna Belle of Peacocks and Lilies, who offers it to the [...]
A post you need to read (and that has nothing to do with Hillary or Obama)
From Apostate: Why Honor Killings Are A Religious Issue. I’ve been a feminist all my life, and the plight of women under Islam has long been a focus of my involvement. I just want to say here that I underline and endorse and recommend every line of Apostate’s post. To my mind one of the [...]
