#WINNING(?)
Well, maybe. At least consider the Komen controversy well and truly #occupied: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned…
brain damage
Harpie’s Bad Move and the Wrath of Elders
It was a little like finding out your spouse is running around on you from someone in the cashout lineup at the grocery store. Indeed, it was absolutely doubleplus-awesome of…
Submitted without (much) comment
Because sometimes there’s just no comment I could possibly *come* up with that would provide adequate snarkification. From Rick Santorum’s website, what is presumably a money raising promotion with the…
Reproductive McCarthyism and a new nadir of authoritarian dumbness
Frankly, it didn’t surprise me a bit that SUZANNE would be All In with the idea of publishing a database of personal information and photos of gynecologists and other reproductive…
Dreams & Schemes & Circus Crowds: On Teh Newticles
I usually find it’s helpful to try and see things from both sides, from left and right, from up and down, from win and lose… and still somehow… … I…
Where’s stageleft
I certainly hope this doesn’t mean anything other than technical issues…
Karma’s a cold-hearted bitch on wheels
Marianne Gingrich, aka Mrs. Newt Gingrich II, is warped, bitter, twisted and trash-talking at top speed as if the world doesn’t already know what Vile Scum with Snail Slime on…
And finally, Quote of the Week
The last word on this week’s Seinfeldian freakout goes to Red Tory: I wonder if all the indignant liberal folks appearing on TV and fulminating in blogs that have been…
Rick Santorum and the Right to be Weird
Make no mistake: the frothy Rick Santorum is weird in ways that go light-years beyond grotesque. But when he obligingly provides so much material for his opponents to work with,…
EwpsCNN
A leftover from the other night that was screaming to get out of the hopper: Who could blame CNN for making this mistake during their coverage of the Iowa Caucus…
A Kick in the Crystal Balls: Predictions Prognostications and Ominous Portents of a Noxious New Year
Yesterday was the End of something and today is the Beginning of something else — I can tell by the way the execrable gloom that always pursues me at this…
NOOOOOOO!
Fapfapfapfapfapfapfap! The Blogosphere just got a little less fappier, the Culture of Death a little zestier, and this blog a little less mocking, derisive and occasionally hilarious, as one of…
“If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re pre-school you’re fucked*
As the children of Attawapiskat endure yet another day of grinding poverty, the “Harper Government” cries “Oh look! A fetus!”: A Conservative MP is seeking to reopen Canada’s abortion debate,…
Fedex: When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight
…but not necessarily in one piece: In the video description, Goobie55 writes “The sad part is that I was home at the time with the front door wide open. All…
Bad Year for Dictators
North Korean Dear Leader and Axis of Evil alumnus Kim Jong-Il boards the last train to Deadsville. Hmm. Bonus track: From last year, Hitchens on North Korea.
Church Ladies Behaving Badly
There’s no revenge like Church Lady Revenge. A couple of years ago, some Edmonton Church Ladies were in the grips of a savage altercation over a Church Gentleman, and predictably,…
Tis the season to be
…pepper sprayed??: Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a…
OWS is growing up (OV: not so much)
Last week was a busy one for Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Protesters were viciously “de-camped” early on before rallying to mark the protest’s 2-month anniversary with a “day of…
Canadian Blog Awards
The nominations are in and first round voting is underway. I’d like to endorse my homegrrlz at DammitJanet, who’ve been nominated in several categories including Best Feminist Blog. Show ‘em…
Donald Trump still on TV, Contemplations of the Apocalypse
Arrgh. I had planned on writing about something else, but this is bugging me. Short form: Donald Trump, still on TV, why? I wonder if anyone else is as tired…