Was channel flipping tonight while finishing up my omelette, and found VH1’s “I love the 90s.” They did a quick soundbite of these immortal words uttered by then Adjunct Professor Newt Gingrich, about why women should be excluded from combat: “Females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days, because they get infections.” […]
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Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Just fucking gorgeous. Judy Bachrach is fuckin’ awesome.
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Jason’s got a good post up about the state of the gay rights movement in the US. On the personal level, the case for treating gay people with decency has never been more robust. I would be willing to bet that more people are openly gay right now than at any other time in history
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“The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 10 When Jesus said, “Love Your Enemies,” I think he probably meant, “Don’t Kill Them.” -anon “The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would
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No, I actually don’t work much for a living, most days. Of course, when we do work, we work. Just not today. Hence my increasing restlessness.
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Cause nobody’s gonna know why it’s inappropriate or understand how it effects you to hear this crap all the goddamn time until you get up off your ass in protest and scream at the top of your lungs . You’ve got to speak the fuck up.
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From Pound (ignore the stereotyping a moment): Maybe one night sometime in the future I will be in the parking lot of a Miami nightclub minding my own business, when a well-known rap artist and/or producer and/or promoter extraordinaire will step out of the building escorted by several bodyguards at the precise moment a late-model
Secretary of State. Black woman. And yea, she’s a ball-buster. She’s smart. She’s brutal. She’ll kick your ass. First black woman to hold the post. Second woman. In the history of the US. I don’t want to say “good for you” because she’s done it with a foreign policy I don’t agree with, and an
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Actually, what I found interesting about this study is that they didn’t break up the results based on the gender/sex of the teen. I’m not sure how to read that. More significantly, they didn’t ask about “safe” sex – when teens choose to have sex, how much time do you spend thinking about contraception, what
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E-MAIL SHORTHAND THAT CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WOULD LIKELY HAVE USED IN LETTERS HOME HAD THE TECHNOLOGY BEEN AVAILABLE TO THEM. REJECTION LETTERS FROM XAVIER’S SCHOOL OF EXCEPTIONAL YOUTH: Dear Sarah “Fan Girl” Williams, We regret to inform you that you have not been selected as a member of this year’s class. Being able to recite,
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