My God, I Haven't Been Fucked Like That Since Grade School
Kevin Drum points out today's least surprising headline: Many Youths Disregard Their Virginity Pledges, Harvard Study SaysVirginity pledges, in which young people vow to abstain from sex until...
View ArticleYou Are The Lucky Ones. You Are Going To Serve God And Country. I Pronounce...
Even the WaPo is labelling this story "Forever Pregnant":New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as...
View ArticlePerhaps We Are Asking The Wrong Questions
I'm gonna put my foot in it here.Just saw the trailer for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. It's billed as "a true story of courage and survival". Fine. Looks very good, actually.But it got me...
View ArticleGuilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Finally, some justice. Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay have both been found guilty. Skilling on most of the charges, Lay on all. They each face up to thirty years in prison.
View ArticleBrokeback Got Us Good, Don't It?
Dear Leader and his Echo Chamber are confronting the direst threat to America today: they want a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. (Never mind that it can't pass and it won't...
View Article"Drop Dead." "That's Not Funny."
Enron founder Ken Lay died this morning. Condolences to his friends and family.No, I'm not a fan of what Mr. Lay did. Not in any way. But, on several other liberal/progressive blogs, I'm already seeing...
View ArticleTell Your Friend Not To Get Cute Down There -- The Marines At Gitmo Are...
Rule of law? Who'd a thunk:The Pentagon has decided in a major policy shift that all detainees held in US military custody around the world are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions,...
View ArticleWe're Sitting On Top Of The Story Of The Century Here
I'm quite sure that the Powers That Be at CNN and CNN.com wonder why they're held in such contempt by progressive audiences. I mean, gosh-a-roonies, their slogan is "The Most Trusted Name In News!" Way...
View ArticleRams Plagued By Fumbles As Earthquakes Rock Los Angeles -- Film At Eleven
I really despise the Corporate Media -- not merely because I feel they are directly complicit in and dedicated to keeping evil men in power, but because the shit they do tell us is, largely, shit.Yahoo...
View ArticleNot Only Are You A Cheat, You're A Gutless Cheat As Well
Typical:Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it's coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional...
View ArticleThat's The First Rule Of Politics, Isn't It? The Man Who Orders The Execution...
If you have to ask....Pope Benedict "is very upset" that Muslims took offense by his invoking a 14th-century speech calling the works of Mohammed "evil and inhuman".The Only President We've Got finds...
View ArticleHonor Doesn't Count For Shit When You're Looking At A Dead Little Boy
From Making Light:You are not required to obey an unlawful order.You are required to disobey an unlawful order.You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all...
View ArticleTake Your Stinking Paws Off Me, You Damned Dirty A*P*E
A reminder: A*P*E stands for American Puritan Ethic, from Allan Sherman's The Rape of the A*P*E.From Majikthise:Last month, feminist blogger Biting Beaver wrote about a nightmarish experience she'd had...
View ArticleOkay, Go To Plan B
Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. I've been active on my LiveJournal, and busy with music, and just really couldn't justify repeating the stuff over here. I'll try to do more.Here's a good thing: an...
View ArticleMea Culpa, Mea Maxima Blogger Culpa
I apologize profoundly to anyone who's subscribed to the RSS feed and just got blasted. I switched over to the New And Improved Blogger this morning, and it reposted damn near everything. This is a...
View ArticleI'm BA-A-ACK
Most of what I've been doing politically lately has been on the LiveJournal. I'm gonna try to focus all that stuff over here again. And this is just a lovely one:Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) made...
View Article"Where Am I?" "On The Disney Channel -- At Least There, I Know You Won't...
Okay, this is ludicrous: In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree...
View ArticleSmiles, Everyone, Smiles
I have mentioned (well, okay, screamed) on numerous occasions that The Mainstream Press Is The Enemy. The Corporate Media are part of the problem, because they shape the conversation for so much of the...
View ArticleZippedy Doo Dah, Zippedy Ay, My Oh My, What A Wonderful Day
This is the kind of thing that would normally send me into a rage. Not today.See, the surest evidence that we do not have a free press is that they don't act like it in any way. This morning's primary...
View ArticleSticks And Stones Can Break Your Bones But Words Cause Permanent Damage
So Don Imus has been fired.Can't say I blame CBS. It was an ugly controversy to start with, and it's gotten uglier by the day. And I don't feel particularly sorry for him, except in the way you feel...
View ArticleI Can Tell You One Thing: If We Were At War, I'd Want Him On My Side
By way of John Kovalic, Game = Life, and GameGrene we learn about Ziggurat Con, a one-day gaming convention to be held June 9... at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase in Iraq.This is a tremendously cool thing,...
View ArticleI'd Rather Die Today And Go To Heaven Than Live To Be A Hundred And Go To Hell
It is a coincidence that a friend reminded me of this video not a half hour ago.Fred fucking useless waste of biomass Phelps is planning to have one of his little anti-gay protests at the funerals of...
View Article"You're Going To Shoot Me?" "Yep, 'Fraid So, Ol' Chap! Sorry!"
Wonkette, writing for the Time Magazine blog, picks up on John Derbyshire, over at The Corner at National Review Online:Spirit of Self-Defense [John Derbyshire]As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me...
View ArticleFarewell, Steve Gilliard
Damn it.No clever whatevers today.Steve Gilliard, one of the finest and angriest and most passionate voices in Left Blogostan, has passed away at the age of 41. He'd been sick for several months, and...
View ArticleGood God, What In Hell Are You Waiting For?
231 years ago today, a bunch of people who really had not wanted to do so found that the only way they had to get the lives they wanted was to declare themselves independent from their mother...
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