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Recently, George Bush has been making the type of decisions that a real grown-up president would make. And it only took six years, (*sniff*) they grow up so fast.
I’m actually a bit tapped on outrage now, so it was with perfectly numbed feelings that I read this half-hearted attempt by the Washington Post to [...]

Color me utterly unsurprised:
The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said.
Back in the heady days of 2003, when Rumsfeld said we know where the weapons are, the Bush folks almost certainly counted on [...]

Advertising is as American as apple pie made from the blood of infidels. We are the land of product placement. Our biggest sporting event of the year is equally known for its commercials. And, by God, we’ve got Man Laws.
So it makes sense that the president, facing staunch opposition in and out [...]

Welcome to the new USPS! Formerly the United States Postal Service, the only (official) moneymaking sector of our government has re-christened itself at the behest of the Bush administration as the Unnecessarily Sneaky Privacy Shitter-on-ers:
The White House on Thursday defended a policy allowing the government to open mail without a warrant, despite criticism that [...]

Ah, the new year. A time of resolutions and rejuvenation. For the first bit of January, it seems like everyone’s an optimist about the upcoming 12 months.
After all, who knows? Maybe you’ll get that new job you’ve been angling for. Maybe that itch will turn out to be just a rash. [...]

Reading this thread at Feministe made several highly salient points magically appear in my head about the Veiling Debate that’s been going on:
1) Why am I the only white person in the world it seems who knows that muslim women are not actually commanded by their religion to veil in front of children - which [...]

Hold up, Hold, the fuck, up lindsay, What the fuck are you talking about?

I am of course referring to this ghastly burkatuter grade evil creature of a paragraph:
Amanda’s insight undercuts ethnocentrism. It’s harder to think of your culture as the measure of all others when you realize that humanity’s most serious problems repeat themselves everywhere [...]

…Except marriage, obviously.
I love you amanda, but the thing is that while a burka is a handy dandy symbol of patriarchal oppression, it is not Your symbol to use you silly cracker.
You see, one of the ways the islamic patriarchy pushes hijab onto women who would otherwise prefer not to wear head scarfs or burkas [...]

I was rather surprised to see J Train in the comments at Pandagon whip this out
Shouldn’t this kind of thing put a doctor’s medical license in jeopardy?
I can’t imagine why. In general, unless a patient’s life or health is in immediate danger (and pregnancy doesn’t count), he’s under no obligation to write any prescription for [...]

I was going to put something like this in the big ass Hijab post I’ve been working, but it’s started bloating something horrible so I’ll just spell it out now in a seperate post because it’s a serious point that some people aren’t getting and I think I just figured out why.

On a somber day of rememberance, it’s important to lie to the American people and make their shitty leaders look like gods again so everyone feels snug and warm inside their bloodsoaked imperialistic bedsheets. At least, that’s the lesson I’m learning today from all of our media outlets after their coverage of Bush’s visit [...]

Most every liberal blog has covered this ABC mini-series fiasco pretty extensively. Why? Because we know how much influence it’ll have. We’ve all been scared shitless this thing will warp the minds of millions of Americans and their children, many of whom do or will vote.
Think of how thoroughly fucked [...]