Category Archives: current events
Liberty, Incorporated
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery” ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau TSA forced woman, 95, to remove adult diaper for pat down, daughter says You know, there are probably a lot of Americans–and I count myself among them–who would be … Continue reading
Filed under current events, liberty
Slimeballs and Sleazebuckets
This proves what I’ve suspected for a long time–Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is nothing but a scum-sucking slimeball. I’ve often wondered if he’s the puppet jerking Gov. Walker’s strings, as Walker has always struck me as being not … Continue reading
Filed under current events, politics, the Republican apocalypse, unions
Check This Out
This is a great summation of the #Mooreandme protest, along with lots of useful linkage.
Filed under current events, feminism in action
The Speech That Should’ve Been
(Edit: WHY WON’T WORDPRESS EMBED STUFF!!! To see Rachel Maddow’s excellent Fake Presidential Speech, go here.) FIRE JON FAVREAU AND MAKE THIS WOMAN OBAMA’S CHIEF SPEECHWRITER IMMEDIATELY!!!!! Seriously, why can’t (or, rather, won’t) Obama say things like this??
Filed under current events, politics, Rachel Maddow
Thy Fearful Symmetry
Today in my dinky little hometown paper, there were–count ‘em!–FIVE articles about Tiger Woods. Talk about overkill. I’m glad I no longer watch much TV (except for Rachel Maddow). I cannot understand why modern, more-than-half-batshit-crazy America is so obsessed with … Continue reading
Filed under current events, marriage, pop-culture nonsense
Woman’s Last Stand
The following is a reply to the Super Bowl Dodge commercial. I didn’t see it myself, but there’s a wonderful take-down of it here, where I also gakked the aptly named “Woman’s Last Stand.” (Note: Don’t read the comments–for the … Continue reading
Filed under current events, feminism
