June, 2009
Get a grip
From the comments at Us Magazine:
11:16 PM Anna Says:
Oh God!, Why Michael, why? I’m so speechless, i dont have words to explain how im feeling. When i think of Michael i cry, when i hear a song i cry, i just cry. He is the KING OF POP, KING OF MUSIC. He made [...]
While you were busy catching up on the Michael-Jackson-still-dead news
Perceptive commenter Modem XX writes:
I’m just wondering what went on in D.C. today while everyone was distracted by the deaths of Farrah and Michael.
Oh, nothing much. Just a love note from the White House that they’re putting together a new Executive Order giving President God the right to indefinitely detain anybody he feels like [...]
Strange day
Today was Take Molly To The Vet Day.
Before we left for the vet: Farrah Fawcett died!
After we got home from the vet: Michael Jackson died!
It’s celebrity death day. Fawcett’s passing was sad but not unexpected, since she was ill with cancer. But the Jackson thing is a [...]
The truth about the NOW election
I want to talk about the future of NOW, and that’s going to be my next post. But first, it’s time to dispel some of the nonsense about the election:
#1: The real issue at the NOW election was that the organization is broke and going nowhere fast. Membership has nose-dived and so has [...]
NOW conference infiltrated by NOW members
The fallout from the NOW election is proving very amusing. Over at Viva La Feminista, Roni writes breathlessly:
There have been comments flying in the blogosphere and Twitter that the Palin people were a rumor. I took pics of at least one of them.
She took a picture! Of “at least one of them”! [...]
Apparently I’m an anti-choice feminist without even realizing it
The coverage of the NOW election is becoming garbled. Over at Salon, Judy Berman writes:
Meanwhile, Viva la Feminista blogger Veronica Arreola, who supported Lyles, says O’Neill (who is pro-choice) owes her election to pro-life feminists. She writes:
“The Sarah Palin supporters swung this election….
Whoa, nellie. “Sarah Palin [...]
Nation anxiously awaits details from NOW conference, blogger fails to deliver
I feel like a Soviet spy here, smuggling in a photograph snapped with a bow-tie camera. See all those grainy people up there whose faces you can’t make out? That’s Leonid Brezhnev Carol Moseley Braun introducing the new officers of NOW: Terry O’Neill (prez), Bonnie Grabenhofer, Erin Matson, and Allendra Letsome.
Moseley [...]
We won! We won! We won!
WOO HOO!!!!!!!
Terry O’Neill is the new president of NOW!!!!
We WON!
WOO HOO!!!!!!!
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The Women’s Revolution
CNN has a good piece up about the feminist factor in the Iran situation:
(CNN) — Like thousands of other Iranian women, Parisa took to Tehran’s streets this week, her heart brimming with hope. “Change,” said the placards around her.
The young Iranian woman eyed the crowd and pondered the possibility that the [...]
How would you define the fourth wave of feminism?
Earlier today, commenter Alison said:
I think the women at Feministing are at war with the 4th wave just as much as they are at war with any woman who does not meet their card carrying Democrat standard.
Their recent post in which they are defensive in regard to criticism that they do not support all women [...]
