A brilliant post denouncing the latest anti-choice strategy adopted by woman-haters. Now they fake interest in the disabled as part of their agenda to invade women’s bodies.
Things have to be going really bad for the Republicans in this electoral campaign if they need to repeat ad nauseam that Obama’s great-grandfather had five wives. I guess there is nothing recent they managed to find on the President. These kinds of articles are always a sign of complete desperation.
On literary translation: can an author relinquish control?
University of Virginia is an extremely weird place. Its faculty members are contemplating a strike to protest the ousting of a fat-cat administrator. Something tells me they had nothing whatsoever to say when financial aid to student was cut and the adjuncts were exploited. One has to be quite brainless to place one’s job at risk so that some administrative quack could keep making her humongously overblown salaries. Mind you, these faculty members have not been known to protest the huge salaries bureaucrats draw.
On how the Republicans hate the female soldiers: “If an Army medic serving in Afghanistan is raped and becomes pregnant, she can’t use her military health plan to pay for an abortion. If she does decide to get an abortion, she will have to pay for it with her own money. And if she can’t prove she was raped—which is difficult before an investigation is completed—she may have to look for services off base, which can be dangerous or impossible in many parts of the world.“
Iceland is emerging in a great shape from the crisis.
Judaism is growing more extremist: “Once upon a time simply insisting on wearing a kippah in public was seen as being fanatic. Once upon a time insisting women wear hats when married at least in shul was seen as dedication. Now the bar has moved. Today the Burka Babes are seen as nuts but as Prof. Marc Shapiro sadly points out, it won’t be more than a generation or two before their current idiocy is seen as normative and we are told by all the right spokesmen that, in fact, this is how all Jewish women dressed before the rise of Reform and was always approved by all the right “Gedolim”. And if the Burka Babes aren’t extreme anymore, one must shudder to think what will occupy the far right side.”
A disappointed Republican leaves his party: “As a local GOP official after President Obama’s election, I had a front-row seat as it became infected by a dangerous and virulent form of political rabies. In the grip of this contagion, the Republican Party has come unhinged. Its fevered hallucinations involve threats from imaginary communists and socialists who, seemingly, lurk around every corner. Climate change- a reality recognized by every single significant scientific body and academy in the world- is a liberal conspiracy conjured up by Al Gore and other leftists who want to destroy America. Large numbers of Republicans- the notorious birthers- believe that the President was not born in the United States. Even worse, few figures in the GOP have the courage to confront them. Republican economic policies are also indefensible. The GOP constantly claims that its opponents are engaged in “class warfare,” but this is an exercise in projection. In Republican proposals, the wealthy win, and the rest of us lose- one only has to look at Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget to see that.”
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I don’t get wtf Obama’s grandfather’s life was like is supposed to do with anything. Hey, according to family legend my great-grandmother owned a slave. Thank God I’ve stayed out of politics, that could have been an issue…
Oh wait, I’m white. Never mind.
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I wrote an Open Letter to Bra Manufacturers on their inability to conceive of all of the types of sizes they might carry.
And reviewed the young adult novel The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (worth it for the title alone!).
And revived an intermittent series I’ve been doing called Hating Gym.
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I no longer wear bras. I don’t have big breasts, and I like to breath. Tank tops take care of all my modesty needs.
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Argh, that should be “I like to breathe.” Bad typing fingers!
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I look very pornographic without a bra. I can’t inflict that on my teenage students. 🙂
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Heh, I look the same with and without one. Like a gourd with feet.
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Do you know that in some cultures “a gourd” is the greatest compliment that can be given to a woman’s body? I read a Turkish novel where the entire plot revolved around that. I read it as a kid and since then always dreamt of having this body type. 🙂
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I just wanted to be taller.
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Thanks for linking me! 😀 That post on Geek culture has given me over 5,000 hits in a single day, a new record for my blog.
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Wow, that’s amazing! I urgently need to write about geeks! 🙂 🙂
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You should, it’s apparently a hit-maker. I got lots of positive comments from geek women who are sick of that unearned superior attitude as well.
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Well the Mormons believe in polygamy. So the grandfather with the five wives bit comes into play probably as a counter to what some Dems are saying about Romney’s background. It’s not as though the Republicans don’t have any other issues to raise, so they have to raise this one.
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“So the grandfather with the five wives bit comes into play probably as a counter to what some Dems are saying about Romney’s background. ”
– Romney is a Mormon. Not his uncle, grandfather or his neighbor down the street. Obviously, Romney’s fanaticism (again, not that of his distant relatives) is a serious issue.
‘It’s not as though the Republicans don’t have any other issues to raise”
– That’s exactly what it is like. All I hear is how Obama’s grandfather something, his father something else, and Obama himself smoked some joints in high school, had a crappy office in his first job, and now likes to play golf. The Republicans are flailing here. I think it’s very funny. I watched a talk show on FOX news where the pundits discussed for 40 minutes how Obama once burned a hole in a carpet with a cigarette butt. Flailing, flailing, flailing. 🙂 🙂
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About this link:
An impossibly brilliant post about the annoying aspects of the self-congratulation the geek culture is engaging in.
I’m wondering if there is some attempt at comparing the larger than life personas that have been created around the top row of women to the fictional personas that were created to make the women in the bottom row.
Mind you I’m not trying to defend the image, just wondering.
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I agree with you that there are important things to strike for in addition to administration, but: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/18/reports-suggest-uva-board-wanted-president-eliminate-language-programs
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That’s exactly what I’m saying! Nobody is protesting the plans to destroy entire programs. They choose to protest the firing of one person instead. When the issue should be making language programs safe irrespective of which paper pusher is getting the biggest salary on campus.
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Found those 2 posts on Iran interesting:
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/39630/
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/39698/#more-39698
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