Are You a Good Doormat?...

Via Claire L. Evans @ Flickr. The Internet is a window onto the world.  If something exists, you can find it on the web.  If it doesn’t, just check again tomorrow.   And as you click around, the elves inside your computer are noting where you go, when, and how often, and madly tallying up...

Harpy Hall of Fame: Gabriela Silang (173...

Portrait from globalpinoy.com. The Harpy Hall of Fame is dedicated to those women who worked on behalf of advancing women’s rights, contributed to reshaping gender roles, or were just generally awesome and badass. These remarkable women left legacies that continue to resonate today. Maria Josefa...

Rape is Cruel and Unusual Punishment...

Via gloomy50 @ Flickr.Rape is no less violent, destructive or criminal when the victim is incarcerated. Despite that fact that sexual assault constitutes a crime in all 50 States and under Federal law, sexual abuse is expected, and usually overlooked, in correctional settings. Even child molesters...

The Electra Slide...

I have been a wee bit wary of my lit professor since the first week of summer classes, when he falsely asserted that everyone was allowed to vote in ancient Athens (except that the womenfolk weren’t!). Unfortunately, there was another awkward moment in one of last week’s classes when we...

In Praise of Comfort Food...

Devil's food with brown sugar buttercream. WIN! Via howtoeatacupcake.net @ Flickr. I normally don’t read O Magazine, but a friend who knows my passion for food just forwarded me an essay entitled “Love, Loss and What I Ate“, the title obviously cribbed from Ilene Beckerman’s...

Remembering Stonewall...

Where it all started. via sassy-sara @ flickr Sunday will mark the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City that are widely considered to be the catalyst of the modern American gay rights movement. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the popular Stonewall...

Regarding MJ: 1958-2009...

As you have to have been an isolation booth or under extreme sedation not to have heard about Michael Jackson dying today, I shan’t bore you with details.  I can only imagine we are in for a circus of craptacular proportion as every hanger-on involved in his life emerges from the woodwork to make...

The Search for Jada Justice...

Thanks to a reader for sending us a tip about the case of missing 2-year-old Jada Justice of Gary, Indiana. It’s been eight days since Justice disappeared when her cousin went into a convenience store to buy milk and cigarettes, leaving the toddler in the car. The case is just now beginning to...

Porky’s 3 Update: You Just Knew it...

Or maybe it's Animal House. Via NCinDC @ Flickr. I am pleasantly surprised to report that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against the Arizona school that strip searched Savana Redding. Redding, who was 13 years old at the time, was ordered to remove her clothes and shake out her underwear because she...

But It’s Funny! RIGHT???...

These are funny robots. Via Dan Coulter @ Flickr. I’ve recently had my own run-in with a douchebag who insisted insulting women was “just a joke,” and that I should “chill out” and “develop a sense of humor,” so perhaps I’m just a wee bit more aware than...

I Love the Smell of Hypocrisy in the Mor...

Ah yes, another day, another GOP hypocrite who wants to preach the sanctity of marriage in public, and fuck around in private. “Do as I say, not as I do” might be the official motto of Republican “family values” candidates these days. Today Mark Sanford, the married Republican...

And Then They Came for CuteOverload....

Is that a good father, or a bad mother? Via rofanator @ Flickr. I occasionally check out our own SarahMC’s tumblr, since she has a tendency to post pictures of beagles and other cute things along with her usual trenchant comments. Last weekend was one of those times, and there I found a link to a National...