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Aug
14th

Thu

HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

via robot-heart via oldauntamy via bluenemesis

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman’s access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion.

I am about to read a book by Christina Page!

Aug
13th

Wed

I’ve gotten three voice messages asking me to vote for Obama this week, I wish I could call them back and tell them I already plan on it.

Aug
11th

Mon

robot-heart:

Consumer Behavior: America’s 15 Hardest Drinking Cities

Whoa! Denver didn’t rank?

Aug
8th

Fri

whateverlolawants:

“What do you think of the institution of marriage?”

Who wants to be institutionalized?

(background:whatwouldjoando)

robot-heart:

funny food paintings by julie lewis on roadside scholar

I’m too tired to come up with a joke. I thought this picture was freaking awesome though.

303!

Aug
5th

Tue

He suggested to Cindy and the audience that she should compete in the Miss Buffalo Chip contest. What’s so bad about that?

Miss Buffalo Chip isn’t a beauty contest in the traditional sense — it’s a relatively debauched topless (and sometimes bottomless) multiday contest where women dance, jiggle and reportedly even perform blow jobs on bananas for the titillation of the spectators. And John McCain offered up his 54-year-old wife as a contestant.

And, let be frank, he didn’t do it just because she’s pretty or has an enviable body for a 54-year-old woman or because he’s proud of his wife’s brand of socialite beauty. He did it to pander to the crowd’s idea of appropriate masculinity, and that apparently includes over-sexualizing your wife and the mother of your children for the amusement of a few people in a crowd. McCain offered up the thought of his wife objectifying herself for the sexual gratification of others (at his suggestion) in order to get a couple of chuckles, inspire some male fantasy and make a few “friends.” Fun!

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John Mccain And Sexism: John McCain Will Pimp Cindy For Your Vote

I actually like McCain, even though I will vote for Obama (besides my little rant about Ferragamo shoe ridiculousness in the previous post). But between McCain’s solid anti-choice stance and his reportedly very sexist behavior, my opinion is sinking of him.

Honest question: will this kind of behavior disenchant women voters? Will those women voters help decide the election? I wonder if the McCain campaign is thinking about those issues, and how they plan to woo American women voters. I doubt even conservative pro-life women would think it’s “funny” John McCain is basically pimping out (yes, I said it) his wife for a few cheap laughs.

(via jgh)

Aug
4th

Mon

When Jamie Leigh Jones was brutally gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then held against her will for several days in a shipping container to prevent her from reporting the rape, she was able to get free by convincing a sympathetic co-worker that hadn’t raped her to loan her his personal cell phone — or else who knows what might’ve happened to her. In response, her employer, KBR, has banned the use of personal cell phones by all of its employees in Iraq

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Think Progress, via Jezebel.

Horrifying.

(via jgh)

Jul
30th

Wed

Douglas Haddow writes, “the hipster represents the end of Western civilization—a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the ‘hipster’—a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.

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Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York (via lezbehonest)

I was watching something last night where one of the characters mentioned that the current American high premium on beauty was a marker of a culture in decline. That really struck me.

I just remembered where I heard it - an episode of Bones. Whatever, I stick by that statement.

(via fareastmeetswildwest)

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Jul
25th

Fri

Fuck.

I crashed my car yesterday, so our trip to Seattle got cancelled.
Goodbye Capital Hill Block Party, a great opportunity to see several bands in one weekend.

I’ve been living in Portland all month, and on Sunday I have the following competing with Cheap Time and Jay Reatard [the obvious decision is the Tennessee bands]:

8:20-8:50pm, Pure Country Gold
9:00-9:30pm, Eat Skull
9:40-10:10pm, White Fang