Monthly Archives: December 2007

Neat-wow images: Fat Batman

From now until 2008, I’m gonna have a little fun and post images. Some of them I’ll have comments about, others I’ll just be posting to say “Hey, cool, look at this!” I don’t know who drew this. I do … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Fat, fat and more fat, Mind-blowing Miscellania and other Neat Stuff | 12 Comments

Every Faction In Iraq Can Agree On Hating Queers

From Rozk: All of the religious factions and militias and Kurdish nationalists and government police in Iraq have one thing that they can agree on, which is killing queers. Most weeks, three or four people are hacked, stoned, burned or … Continue reading

Posted in Iraq, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 1 Comment

Ike says “it’s water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”

But the Angry Black Woman blogs:
I am tired of people using the “But he was a great artist” line whenever someone who is, otherwise, a despicable human being, writes a song or a book or a poem that they like. I hate to break Godwin’s Law here, but even Hitler wrote some nice poetry and […] Continue reading

Posted in Syndicated feeds | 5 Comments

The Racism Fairy Strikes Again

From Rachel’s Tavern: State Sen. Denny Altes apologized Thursday for writing an e-mail saying Arkansas is overrun with illegal aliens and that “we are being out populated by blacks also.” Altes, the Fort Smith senator who serves as Republican leader … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 28 Comments

"Ransom Notes" Ad Campaign Ends

Ari Ne’eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) that led the protest against the NYU Child Study Center’s “Ransom Notes” ad campaign, announces: I am pleased to inform you that this afternoon the NYU Child Study Center announced that … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, In the news, Media criticism | 2 Comments

IQ and Genetics

Amardeep Singh blogs:
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest in the New Yorker is a must-read for anyone who’s been stuck arguing with an IQ fetishist at a dinner party (sadly, this has happened to me once too often). Gladwell relies heavily on the work of James Flynn, who has a new book out called What is Intelligence?. […] Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 3 Comments

Being Fat, Being Gay: It Doesn't Matter If It's A Choice

From M. LeBlank at Bitch PhD: Both fat people and gay people who are trying to fight bigotry spend a lot of time arguing that their condition is genetic. It’s pretty easy to see why: it seems like a very … Continue reading

Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 34 Comments

Kid GenocidalNation

Rob Schmidt blogs about the “reality” TV show Kid Nation in where a bunch of kids “go back to the basics” and live in the “Wild” West in Arizona. In one of the shows the kids meet Native Americans in where a whole slew of stereotypes, tepees and all, take place:
Let’s sum up what […] Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 2 Comments

"Did I Steal My Daughter?" Interesting Article On Transnational Adoption

Great article in Mother Jones by Elizabeth Larson, whose daughter was adopted from Guatemala. For those of you who don’t know, there’s been a lot of pushback against the “saving children from the benighted countries they were born in” narrative, … Continue reading

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Colonialism, Families structures, divorce, etc, International issues, Race, racism and related issues | 1 Comment

Racism and the Anti-Barack Obama Attacks From Camp Clinton

I saw this posted over at Mirror on America, and I have to agree. We should not be so naive as to think that people in the Clinton campaign are not directing their surrogates to play on racist and Islamophobic … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, Race, racism and related issues | 22 Comments