August, 2008

Tonight on No Quarter Radio: Our View with Patsy and Sugar

By · Thursday, August 21st, 2008 · 8 Comments »

Hey, everybody. It’s me, your long-lost host and ghost. I am and have been extremely busy doing extremely secret and important things connected to the convention in Denver. No, really. I have a whole double life thing going here that none of you know about. But there’s one thing I’ve been working on that isn’t [...]

Patriarchy to world-class female athletes: okay, you can compete, but you have to wear porn outfits

By · Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 · 31 Comments »

Women’s track uniforms; men’s track uniform. Men’s beach volleyball uniforms; women’s beach volleyball…uniforms. Those are from a photo essay at Hoyden About Town: Women still the sex class in international elite sports Also check this one out from a couple of years ago, showing the trend in pornification: If bare midriffs and short-shorts really made [...]

From now on I shall refer to him as “the god-king”

By · Monday, August 4th, 2008 · 18 Comments »

Some time during this past week I saw a blurb somewhere that people on Capitol Hill are starting to wonder if Obama is mentally ill. Wish I could remember where I saw that, but it struck a chord. At first I thought Obama was just deliberately cultivating a “presidential” image to sell himself to the [...]

Hello and Open Thread

By · Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 · 19 Comments »

Did you think I’d died? Did you think I’d been kidnapped by the Obama campaign and forced to swear fealty to the god-king? Actually I’ve just had an insanely busy and complicated week. I’m still busy, as a matter of fact. But I’m here and alive — well, no, actually I’m not alive. Extant is [...]