Please use this thread to post what you like, for as long as you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is grand.
- When they think they’re talking in private, that’s when they really speak their minds about “homos.” Influential Oklahoma fundamentalist Steve Kern says: “Courts can force drug offenders into treatment centers and violent people into anger management. There’s no reason our courts can’t do that with homos.” Via Box Turtle Bulletin.
- It worries me that even smart, accomplished, nationally known right-wingers seem like paranoid loons with no reality in their grasp.
- Although I’ll be disappointed soon enough, for now I’m enjoying my Obama fanboyosity. So, via Stephen at Attempts, check out this cool photo gallery.
- And as Stephen says, worth it for the opening panel alone.
- This cover for “The Advocate” (“gay is the new black”) really is disgusting. Plus, it brings up the “evil or stupid?” problem. See Melissa and Portlydyke’s posts, too.
- Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we got government out of the business of inspecting claims of safety and soundness, and just let the private market handle it? I can’t imagine that going wrong.
- And now, some genuinely important news: A malaria vaccine looks good in testing. This could save millions of lives.
- From Flip Flopping Joy, and I’m quoting: “this link to a website where a young woman took pictures of her cervix every single day from the day menstruation starts all the way through the day before her next menstrual cycle starts. It’s pretty fascinating….” The photos are explicit and probably NSFW.
- Great Digby post on the odd relationship between the left, the right, and CIA.
- Ezra argues that Obama may be cannily moving the “mainstream” to the left.
- Even Jessica Abel isn’t thin enough to appear in magazines without photoshopping. UPDATE: Er, Alba. Not Abel.
- Good news: “The Kids In The Hall Are Making A New TV Miniseries!” Great news: Rather than sketch comedy, the new show’s format will be inspired by “The League of Gentlemen.”
- It looks like a handful of Democratic party anti-gay bigots have succeeded in keeping marriage equality off the New York legislature’s agenda. Fuck.
- School ties up black schoolchildren as pretend slaves, but then can’t comprehend why what they did was wrong. Aaaargh. White people.
- That depressing report on the shrinking job market? It’s seriously understating how bad things are.
- Yes, Favreau is a sexist asshat, but Hilary Clinton is right to downplay it in public.
I decided to go “animated” and did a blog post on two Cartoon Network shows “Chowder” and “Misadventures of Flapjack”
http://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2008/10/chowder.html
http://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2008/12/adventure.html
thanks, good linkage, the obama photos are great, and they bring back a lot of the campaign and the victory. Cartoon mafia’s cute too.
I wrote against the racist use of “ghetto” as an adjective, got some great comments there on the topic too.
Woc and The Table Scraps of Feminism: Looking at the ways in which feminism continues to be divided by race. This post looks specifically at online feminism.
Blacker than thou or Internalized racism: Looking at why we feel the need to qualify who counts as black.
Debasing African American Women For Profit: Using cultural pride to mask sexism and sexualizing of female bodies
Finally, The emancipation of the Female Orgasm: Tag line to remember if you don’t come, don’t nobody come.
These are great. I love this misc. post section.
Yes, Favreau is a sexist asshat, but Hilary Clinton is right to downplay it in public.
You’ve got to be kidding me. What Favreau, Obama’s fracking speechwriter, did is sick. I thought Clinton played it down at first, too. I don’t think she did anymore though, I think that’s a misreading. Read what she said carefully (as opposed to what others said about what she said.)
And I think anybody who claims to be a feminist — or hell, a Democrat, a leftist, a progressive, a liberal, a decent human being, for that matter — ought to be blogging about this front and center. Hello. Obama’s speechwriter thinks the image of date raping/sexually assaulting Hillary Clinton is funny. Funny enough to throw it up there on his Facebook page.
Jeezus.
Ah, but was it REALLY wrong? In a super clever slight of hand, perhaps the teacher taught the lesson a lot better than would otherwise have been taught.
I mean, tie of a white student, oooh, aaaah, how instructional. BORE-RING. But be a racist asshat and assume tying up black students is “Okay” and suddenly the absolute evil that was slavery is made obvious.
I give the teacher an “A” for results, and an “F” for execution.
Just getting the word out about Professional Homophobe Maggie Gallagher (and her hypocrisy)
Jessica *Alba*. Though I clicked through because I wanted to see who was airbrushing pictures of the (gorgeous, imho) Jessica Abel.
I blogged about this a month ago but since it’s hit the mainstream press, it’s just happened. It’s causing a bit of a stir.
LAPD officer files $5 million alleging racial profiling
Police Chief responds to claim for damages
Reactions to the situation
This column on the whole state of affairs is excellent.
Post at my girlfriend’s blog on straight actors playing gay characters.
Thanks for the open thread! I love them.
At The Czech, I wrote about:
Rober Ebert’s hilarious review of pro-creationism documentary Expelled, narrated by Ben Stein!
Musician and television personality Pat Boone equating the Mumbai terrorist attacks with anti-Prop 8 protests.
Recent surprise expressed in the media that meat comes from a dead animal. Who knew? Now, i am an omnivore myself, I just like to respect the reality that brings meat to the table.
Start vent:
I am trying to trade something on Craigslist.
I have posted clear statements in my ad, about what it is worth and what I expect in trade.
Every single email ignores them and it takes at least three emails to figure out that they are expecting (?) me to trade my nice stuff for their shit. “i see you’re trying to trade a high end road bike for an equivalently priced high end mountain bike; would you accept my broken tricycle?” Except that they take three emails before they admit they only have a broken tricycle.
what the fuck is the MATTER with people?
thank you. i feel much better now.
End vent:
As long as we’re venting…
WHY is it that no clothes manufacturer on the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET makes clothes for guys with big waists and little butts? I can buy a pair of pants that fits in the butt but compresses my innards, or I can buy a pair that fits at the waist but with a crotch that makes me look like a gangbanger.
You’d think somebody would be aware that there’s a moneymaking opportunity here.
Besides Utilikilt, I mean.
Yeah, Bjartmarr, I feel your pain. Trying to find women’s clothes when you have a very large waist but not-so-large hips is a similar headache.