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William Saletan makes me sick.
17 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas November 13th, 2008 in Historical Wankery, Media hackery, My Brain Hurts, SexI’m not kidding. Every week, day in and day out, I see his articles on Slate; I usually manage to restrain myself from clicking on them—on the rare occasions I fail to do so, I’m almost always sorry. Past failures of cognition on his part have included this fine series on how black [...]
Only fucking elitists know what “fungible” means anyway!
2 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas September 21st, 2008 in A million ways to mortgage the future, My Brain Hurts, The PalinatorRepublican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin…responding to a question about how oil obtained from offshore drilling can be kept in the country instead of sold on the world market, with an answer CNN’s Wolf Blitzer characterized as “not exactly easy to understand:”*
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you [...]
I’m still trying to figure out why they even bothered writing this article.
6 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas July 29th, 2008 in Media hackery, My Brain Hurts, Obamarama, for realsMaybe I just don’t understand the definition of “news.”
Main Entry: news
Pronunciation:
\ˈnüz, ˈnyüz\
Function:
noun plural but singular in construction
Usage:
often attributive
Date:
15th century
1 a: a report of recent events
1 b: previously unknown information
2 a: material reported in a [...]
“Men” and “mankind” apparently not being defined to include “ambulatory wombs.”
28 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas July 21st, 2008 in Culture, Family, For the ladies, Historical Wankery, Human Rights, My Brain Hurts, Shame on you for being a womanAfter having spent my adult life variously not being a mom, being a married mom, being a single mom, being a mom who stayed at home and being a mom who worked outside the home, I have come to the conclusion that if you are a fertile woman of childbearing years, no matter what you’re [...]
Umm…
0 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas July 2nd, 2008 in Filtered Propaganda, Media hackery, My Brain Hurts, Politics, WankersSo I was idly paging through CNN.com and came across this headline:
July 2, 2008
Poll shows Americans cool to Michelle Obama
Posted: 10:30 AM ET
Oh brother…aside from the fact that a candidate’s spouse should be a virtual non-issue and so should everybody’s opinion of him or her–
The new Associated Press-Yahoo poll shows 30 percent of Americans view [...]
Underage Pregnancy Conspiracies, Savage Lost Tribes and Don Imus is a Racist
7 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas June 24th, 2008 in Media hackery, My Brain HurtsThis is the quality of news reporting today.
There was no teen pregnancy pact in Massachussetts.
There are no painted, spear-throwing primitives attacking Great White Helicopters in Brazil.
No shit Don Imus is a racist. Hello?
Because some graphics just get better with every repost.
You guessed it–the Duggars are expecting their 18th child.
“We’re expecting!” the happy mother told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira and the entire Arkansas clan. “Number 18!
Joshua, the Duggars’ eldest son, said the news, two days before Mother’s Day was “a shock” — if only to a point.
“I wasn’t [...]
Writing on the skin, and below.
0 Comments Published by violet April 28th, 2008 in Conformity, Culture, My Brain HurtsI have some experience with rejecting self-taken identity. I have some experience with leaving communities. I have some experience with realizing that a thing you thought was good—and maybe it once was—is no longer a thing you can be part of.
I get this. In a really fundamental way. It is catastrophic to me that this [...]
Who needs a cold war when you can have a wet one?
3 Comments Published by punkass marc April 15th, 2008 in "Science", My Brain HurtsWelcome to China! We hope you enjoy your stay during the Olympics.
Huh? What’s that? Those guns? Don’t mind them.
Sigh. Fine, fine, let’s talk about the guns. No, they’re not there to mow down Olympic torch protesters. Or Tibetan nationalists. [Though if any such offenders were [...]
It Was Like a Lightbulb Exploded In My Brain
2 Comments Published by Lisa Kansas April 15th, 2008 in "Science", Family, My Brain Hurts, What Patriarchy?Flying shards of glass and everything. I was so worried about the economy and BAM! FINALLY somebody, somewhere is aiming to do something about it!
Study: Single parents cost taxpayers $112 billion
That sure jumped out at me. Clearly, first off, single parents aren’t taxpayers! Or the headline would read [...]
Suffering from being a patronizing, paternalistic ass? That’s just what organized religion was designed to combat!
1 Comment Published by Kyso Kisaen January 5th, 2008 in Punkass!, "Science", Looks like someone needs an intervention, My Brain Hurts, Shame on you for not being rich white and privileged, What Patriarchy?Over at Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family’s source of hip, Candice Watters is reminded by the New York Times to warn science to beware, bee–waaarrreeeeeee!!!!!!!! That is, beware to continue to be aware that scientific ethics are a good thing.
Also, did you know that in the past, scientists were sometimes wrong? And [...]
Slate’s new Blog For Girls fails the ‘who the hell are you and why do I care’ test
1 Comment Published by Kyso Kisaen October 21st, 2007 in Blogitics, Circle Jerking, Feminism, For the ladies, Media hackery, My Brain Hurts, Shame on you for not being rich white and privileged, Sprawl will kill us all, What Patriarchy?Slate’s new gals-only blog (called the XX Factor because it’s x-edgy to the x-treme, and also women have two X chromosomes while men have an X and a Y chromosome. Get it?) is drawing criticism for being eyeball-meltingly boring. Erica Barnett calls it “fucking DULL.” Gawker remains unimpressed by the writer’s “femiladyism.” [...]
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