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Is your vagina up to snuff? Probably not.
We all know about designer vaginas and elective labioplasty by now, but how can we know if it’s right for us? We need guidance, but we can’t go around asking just anyone if our vaginas are pretty. We need help from a trusted […]

Remember how hard it was for Woodward and Bernstein to produce evidence that President Richard Nixon broke the law? Accomplishing that difficult task made those men national heroes, and they’ve been coasting on the resulting fame and wealth for (ahem, a few too many) decades.
Getting your hands on the smoking gun used […]

Remember Steve Horner, that guy in Colorado who waged a righteous war against ladies night? Sure, we mocked him mercilessly but did we ever stop to get his side of the story?
The Daily Show’s John Oliver finally gives Steve a voice, and it’s ever bit as wonderful as you would imagine it to be.
Check […]

When the planet melts and/or we otherwise manage to destroy ourselves, do not dispair. Instead, look to the future-look the Arctic.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
The vault aims to safeguard the world’s agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid […]

American troops in Iraq have killed a lot of people — some on purpose, some on accident. Anti-war voices can, must, and do emphasize the incalculable enormity of the tragedies our war policy has inflicted on the dead and their families. But we should also remember that state-sponsored murder doesn’t just produce victims. […]

As you might’ve heard, today is the two year anniversary of Jonah Goldberg offering a wager to Juan Cole that, within two years, Iraq:
won’t have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it.
Staring […]

If all you wanted was someone to parrot your views in your blog, why would you hire Amanda Marcotte to do it, instead of your local gas station attendant, your primary-care physician, or me? Do you also fill your gas tank with Cristal?

They’re staying.
I think the post by John Edwards struck the right tone — he’s not a fan of the aggro verbiage, which no presidential politician could admit to being, but he’s also supportive of his staff and acknowledges no bigotry occurred.
As one of the commenters on Edwards’s post noted, one can […]

More on the lopsided coverage of racist Bill Donohue’s anti-Marcotte/McEwan crusade in the media.
Would it kill CNN and MSNBC to _mention_ Donohue’s actual bigotry (the only bigotry that has been properly demonstrated in this mess) after profusely thanking him for deigning to be interviewed? Sheesh. Bloggers even do their homework for them and […]

Well hello! Long time no see! I’m sure nothing whatsoever has happened in my absence. I have actually been writing here goddamn near every day but fucking Marc has scrubbed the archives in fear of… ellipses and incomplete sentences. I cuss too much, apparently, and somebody had to scrub my dirty, […]

…and the non-crazies hanging out in them have let it be known they stand behind Amanda and Shakes Sis 100% and hope they remain part of the campaign.
Roll call, in no particular order:
John Amato
Kagro X
Ann Friedman
Ezra Klein
Paul the Spud
Waveflux
The Heretik
Sheelzebub
McJoan
Zuzu
Liza Sabater
Matt Stoller
Richard Blair
Maha
The Carpetbagger Report
Chicago Dyke
creature
Atrios
Jessica Valenti
Liberal Avenger
Barry Deutsch
Jill Filipovic
Hugo Schwyzer
Echidne
Shark-Fu
Sara Anderson
Ilyka Damen
egalia
Media Matters
Ann Bartow
Aunt […]

Space, the final frontier. These will be the voyages of some other country’s ship, possibly that of a country that didn’t blow its wad on a trillion dollar war back when dollars were actually worth something.
NASA may not be able to launch the space shuttle’s replacement by 2014 as promised, according to the agency’s […]