Keeping Score in “the War on Women”
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-d-romero/keeping-score-in-the-war-_b_1432160.html Anthony D. Romero 04/17/2012 So far in Election 2012, we’ve seen a foul-mouthed Rush...
View ArticlePhyllis Schlafly: Let’s Destroy The Word Feminism Just Like We Did Liberal!
From Crooks and Liars: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/phyllis-schlafly-lets-destroy-word-feminism By karoli April 18, 2012 My gratitude to the stalwarts at Right Wing Watch for watching nearly two...
View ArticlePete Stark Introduces Bill to Classify Child-Rearing as Work Under Welfare’s...
From Fire Dog Lake: http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/04/18/pete-stark-introduces-bill-to-classify-child-rearing-as-work-under-welfares-work-requirement/ By: David Dayen Wednesday April 18, 2012 Eli...
View ArticleMacho Gun Slinging Tough Guy and Wannabee Guitar Player Ted Nugent Was a...
News stories surfaced today regarding how macho poser and racist bully Ted Nugent was a Vietnam War Draft dodger, pissed and shit in his pants to get out of serving in Vietnam the way so many brave...
View ArticleHow Gender Identity May Determine the Right to Vote in 2012
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/167402/how-gender-identity-may-determine-right-vote-2012 Brentin Mock on April 16, 2012 American companies are born as private commercial entities, but...
View ArticleTrans Feminism: There’s No Conundrum About It
From Ms Magazine: http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/04/18/trans-feminism-theres-no-conundrum-about-it/ by Julia Serano April 18, 2012 Aviva Dove-Viebahn’s recent Ms. blog post, “Transfeminism and...
View ArticleLosing the Right to Abortion, Week by Week: Restrictions on Later-Term...
From RH Reality Check: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/18/losing-right-to-abortion-week-by-week-restrictions-on-later-term-abortions-harm-w by Susan Yanow April 19, 2012 The landscape...
View ArticleMillennials Abandoning Christianity
From Religion News Service: http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/mark-silk/millennials-abandoning-christianity Mark Silk Apr 19, 2012 Dude, that’s the headline I’d put on the new survey of Millennials...
View ArticleGulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
From Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh Boycott Spreads To Local Advertisers and Radio Stations
From PoliticusUSA: http://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-boycott-now/ Jason Easley April 19, 2012 The National Organization for Women has announced a campaign to hit Rush Limbaugh in the wallet by...
View ArticleWhen We Grow Up, We Will Fall in Love with Earth
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/19-0 by Robert C. Koehler Published on Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Common Dreams The AP story on military maneuvers in the Arctic reads...
View ArticleTen-Thousand Birds Die as ‘Everglades of West’ Dries and Spreads Disease
From Eco Watch: http://ecowatch.org/2012/ten-thousand-birds-die-as-everglades-of-west-dries-and-spreads-disease/ American Bird Conservancy 04-18-2012 Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
View ArticleA Real Name
I’m really pretty impressed with some of the things Natalie Reed has to say. We met when I asked her if I could run her piece on the “Cotton Ceiling” and became Facebook friends. Now I really liked...
View ArticleReligious Right Defends Criminalization of Homosexuality with Warnings of...
From Right Wing Watch: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-defends-criminalization-homosexuality-judgment-paganization by Brian Tashman on Wed, 04/18/2012 – 12:00pm Last week, Truth...
View ArticleAnders Breivik is a terrorist, so we should treat him like one
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/breivik-terrorist-like-al-qaida We comb over every word from Oslo, but disregard al-Qaida’s rants. The lack of consistency...
View ArticleSave Earth Day
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/167466/save-earth-day Mark Hertsgaard April 18, 2012 Celebrated every April 22 for the past forty-two years, Earth Day is showing its (middle) age....
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