February 2012
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“I’ll call you women instead of girls, just so long as I get paid more than...”
– Tom Lerher
Santorum and Gingrich are calling this the most...
steviemcfly:
Gee, I wonder why they chose that one.
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Top 10 Catholic Teachings Rick Santorum Rejects →
The unjustness of the war in Iraq
Universal health care
Opposition to the death penalty
Increase in the minimum wage
Welfare for needy families
The rights of workers to organize
The withdrawl of Israel from Palestine
The unethical nature of the Arizona immigration law
That illegal immigrants not be treated as criminals
The rejection of Bush’s idea of a “preventive war.”
As long as we...
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
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From feministfilm to you: a [probably] exhaustive... →
fossoaposto:
feministfilm:
Out of around 130:
Yvonne Hudson, 1980-1981 (featured player only)
Danitra Vance, 1985-1986
Ellen Cleghorne, 1991-1995
Maya Rudolph, 2000-2007
Nasim Pedrad, 2009-present
That’s it. You’re welcome.
I’m going to add commentary here from feministfilm’s personal tumblr, rgrpop, because it gets to the heart of the matter:
“I feel like when it’s 2012 and you...
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Chance of Alcohol Sales For Food Carts →
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“I just watched the Republican Presidential debate from South Carolina. I just...”
– Seasoned Journalist Terence Smith, to which I respond: These Are Conservatives. This Is What They Do.
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Israel To Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy... →
anticapitalist:
A sustainable energy program in ‘Area C’ of rural West Bank is being threatened by Israeli authorities. The program, which recently installed solar panels and wind turbines in 16 communities, is providing 1,500 Palestinians with electricity — who were formerly without reliable energy.
The foreign aid program, thus far successful, has become a new target for Israel as it...
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When Oakland Is Under Attack, What Do We Do? →
punkpedagogy:
This thoroughly warms my heart with joy.
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Protesters Sentenced For Occupying Oregon... →
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“The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring...”
– Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 essay The Mass Psychology of Fascism
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The Bubble
On his Real Time program, Bill Maher loves to revisit the concept of “The Bubble”, that bizarre and removed part of mental space that conservatives occupy. What started as a simple skit about the resilience of Tea Party voters to facts (if I remember right, portrayed by Maher and Keith Olbermann shouting things like “Bush Tax Cuts are the biggest contributor to the...
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Homeless Rest Shelter Resists City Fines →
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City Council Allows Car Camping →
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New Jersey Passes Gay Marriage →
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Portland City Parks Face Budget Cuts →
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Interview with United Spinal Association on NYC... →
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Union of Concerned Scientists Interview on Smog... →
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Portland To Take A Stand Against Corporate... →
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Chris Brown Is A Woman-Beating Piece of Shit →
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Jamal Tarhuni Comes Home →
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Anti-Fracking Rally Interview →
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The Daily Show Rape Jokes
I finally got the free time to watch last night’s Daily Show episode dealing with women in combat (and Liz Trotta’s asinine comments about how women in the military should expect to be raped). I remember a lot of people getting bent out of shape, calling the skit offensive and invoking the “There’s no such thing as a funny rape joke” rule. How in the hell did everyone...
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Portland Water Supply Tests Positive for Parasite →
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Arizona Law Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law,... →
badassladyknight:
Just when you thought the Arizona legislature was out of bad ideas.
SB 1467, newly introduced in the Arizona State Senate, would force schools and universities to suspend, fine, and ultimately fire any teacher or professor who “engage[d] in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commission concerning obscenity, indecency and...
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Watchkohenari:
This report by Matthew Lee about Shavendra Silva, a Sri Lankan war criminal who has now become an advisor on peacekeeping to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is worth your six minutes this morning.
There has been very little press on Silva — or the massacres in Sri Lanka in 2009, really — but, as Lee argues, this move into the UN peacekeeping apparatus by a war criminal who is...
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Procrastinating From School Work
Since I had to spend an hour today listening to Democracy Now, most of which was composed of Republicans talking about restricting access to women’s health care:
Can we officially stop calling it pro-life, but instead anti-women’s health? I mean, we literally live in a world where the Komen Foundation (which just commercializes cancer activism, sucking up useful funding for other more...
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January 2012
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“‘Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear-cut idea about America’s enemies: Kill them,’...”
– “The Odd Couple: Romney Vs. Gingrich,” Rolling Stone
In Depth with Author and Journalist Chris Hedges →
On Book TV’s In Depth, author and journalist, Chris Hedges. The Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent spends three hours taking viewers’ calls, emails and tweets on topics such as terrorism, religion and politics.
December 2011
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It costs the U.S. more than $70 million a year to... →
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“It’s in the last two elections that the trend of foreign policy being treated as...”
– Noah Millman
November 2011
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A Sign Of Things To Come
Republican crowds sure have been entertaining lately. They’ve cheered letting uninsured people die, torturing prisoners, and executing possibly innocent folks. They’ve even booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq! A lot of commentators were surprised by all of this. I’m not - they’re conservatives, this is what they do.
What I am surprised by, though, is the eventual defense...
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