Hey, sorry to call you all “dinks,” but hey, it rhymed.
- The Guardian has printed an essay by Andrea Dworkin about her bone disease and resulting disability, which is billed as “the last piece written by Andrea Dworkin.” As usual, Dwokin’s prose voice is clear and engrossing. Thanks to “Alas” reader “Maureen” for emailing the tip.
- From Geekery Today: A man sentenced to just four months in prison for killing his wife, after a jury concluded he acted in a blind fury, drew a 15-year term for wounding her boyfriend.
- No matter how many times you clean the toilet, you’re gonna have to clean it again and again. Which brings us to that stupid shit Paul Cameron, king of the homo-hating liars. I See Invisible People is on hand with the toilet brush.
- I couldn’t write prose this bad if you paid me: “The walls had fallen down and the Windows had opened, making the world much flatter than it had ever been…but the age of seamless global communication had not yet dawned.” It really is awesome – Thomas Friedman is no ordinary bad writer. Read the post and comments at Crooked Timber for more.
- Republicans, conceding that the private sector is unable to win a fair competition with the public sector, have proposed that taxpayers subsidize uncompetitive private-sector weather report services. Majikthise has more.
- Microsoft has apparently been pressured to stop supporting gay-rights bills by the threat of a right-wing Christian boycott. Daddy, Papa and Me has more: here and here.
- Interesting WomensEnews article about Angela Bonavoglia, a Catholic, feminist, Roman Catholic writer working to reform the Catholic Church. “Angela is exposing in her book that we have great women that the church is determined to turn into good girls.” Bonavoglia’s own website is here.
- This New York Times article reports that the divorce rate is not only falling, it was never as high as we’ve all seen claimed; the “50% of marriages end in divorce” claim is a myth.
- Seder-Masochism. A comic book about Passover (well, sort of) made from photos of action figures. So sue me, it totally cracked me up.
I’m going to hold off until Amp says it’s OK until I get to the substance of my criticisms of Dworkin, but I’ll say something positive: that essay was powerfull and moving.
Yeesh. Remember that Family Guy where Peter defends himself against accusations of sexual harassment by saying “women aren’t people”?
Apparently in Texas that’s a viable defense.