Stupid Sex Tricks: Tampons Ate My Virginity
My gawd, it sounds like a campy horror flick, doesn’t it? But yes, there are still adults dumb enough to worry about their daughters using internal absorbents to mop up…
Sabina Becker
“I don’t call it rioting, I call it an insurrection”
Watch a BBC anchorwoman get a bad case of Teh Stoopid (as well as racism) against a respectable man: Darcus Howe tells it like it is. These are NOT just…
Who killed JFK? Jackie’s theory: LBJ was in on it
By now, if you still believe Lee Harvey Oswald did it, you’re probably as much of a patsy as he said he was. Here’s the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s theory…
“If you see me in the street”
A spoken-word poem worth taking to heart about just how unpleasant it is to be a woman in public. (And yes, I can vouch for just about everything she says,…
If a bankster falls in the forest…
…it makes the odd news headlines: “Shark in a boat” seems so last month. Now it’s “shark in the forest.” A call to police reporting an unusual odor on Thursday…
Economics for Dummies: S & P = $ and Payola
Ah, nostalgia…it just ain’t what it used to be. Used to be that payola was just something that sleazy record promoters slipped to radio DJs to turn a mediocre pop…
Music for a Sunday: I close my eyes to the restless skies
Hiroshima Day was yesterday. This great Canadian song from yesteryear comes to mind: Watch the video closely and you’ll see some real live World War II vets marching in.
Wankers of the Week: Crappy Hiroshima Day!
Imagine a time when it all began…Music, maestros: Ahem. Horrible Hiroshima Day, in a world where victims of the first nuclear strike are still dying of cancer 66 years later.…
What? The Honduran coup isn’t over yet?
Nope: Honduran police have turned professional arsonists. Their targets: Honduran peasant villagers. Their employers: Big illegal landowners who refuse to recognize the campesinos’ land claims under a 12-year-old agrarian reform…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito, neither down nor out
On the contrary, he’s very much up and at it. And here’s the proof: The hair may be gone — for NOW — but the dimpled grin is still exactly…
Somebody sent me this today…
Ruin? Hell. That would be the best present I could get today. Thanks, Ben Auslander!
Planned Parenthood meets Bollywood!
In celebration of the new law requiring all US health insurance providers to cover birth control and other preventive health measures for women with no “co-pays” (out of pocket expenses,…
What’s wrong with “crisis pregnancy” centres?
Well, for starters, there is NO SUCH THING as a “crisis” pregnancy. That word is utterly meaningless. And then there’s the fact that all this weasel-verbiage exists for a reason:…
The bald truth about Chavecito’s new look
Something’s missing in this picture of the president of Venezuela. But what? Oh, I know. It’s his hair! Like many a chemotherapy patient, Chavecito has opted for the quicker, tidier…
Heroes for Today: A German, two lesbians, a mayor and a prime minister…
…and, hell: a whole slew of plain, ordinary Norwegian citizens of all faiths and colors: Meanwhile, here’s the German, who saved as many as 30 people from the frigid waters…
Economics for Dummies: “Austerity” explained
…in terms so simple, even a Repug could understand them: Shamelessly stolen from here. (Thanks, Pale!)
Music for a Monday: A lament for Che
Yes, I know, this is very belated; I should have put this up yesterday: Steven Soderbergh’s two-volume movie of Che’s Cuban triumph and his Bolivian downfall is hugely ambitious, and…
Wankers of the Week: Terrorist sympathizers and fellow travellers
Crappy weekend, everyone! Anybody feel like sending old Tailgunner Joe spinning in his Nazified grave? Because I sure as hell have, all week. And here’s my list of terrorist enablers,…
Quotable: Johan Galtung on the Oslo massacres
Democracy Now interviews a man who understands a thing or two about the dangers of fascism and the need for nonviolent conflict resolution: Johan Galtung — sociologist, author, activist…and, by…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Ollanta inaugurates, Chavecito celebrates
Yesterday was a busy, festive day in Latin America. In Peru, a progressive finally got himself inaugurated president: Ollanta Humala is in the sash! That’s his wife, Nadine Heredia, applauding…