Today has been busy with job-hunting and whatnot, but I still wanted to post today; it's the 34th anniversary of the landmark court decision known as Roe Vs. Wade, which said that a woman's constitutional rights to privacy and control over her individual body extended to her uterus as well.

I wanted to write an eloquent essay about why I'm pro- ( Read more... )

More links that were saved on my work computer, and are being posted here to (a) make them easier to transfer to my home computer, and (b) share some of my informational resources with others. These links are about various feminist topics. Several of them overlap with psychological topics, which should surprise no one ( Read more... )

More links that were bookmarked on my work computer, and will be transferred to my home computer’s web browser. These links are all about reading and writing, both fiction and nonfiction, and I imagine that some of them are already familiar to a few of you ( Read more... )

More links that were bookmarked on my work computer, and will be transferred to my home computer’s web browser for later reference. These refer to my amateur interests in psychology, and the fields that frequently intersect with it: biochemistry, cultural anthropology, education, criminology, self-improvement, etc. (Feminism and psychology are ( Read more... )

The previous post about the ‘liberal’ versus ‘conservative’ state of mind, and why so many people feel threatened by the liberal mindset, brought this to mind ( Read more... )

Are y'all sick of politics yet? I know I sure am by this point. (But I most definitely voted anyway. Like some folks have already said, if you're capable of voting but don't exercise your right, then you've no right to complain about who's in office later ( Read more... )

Eight more days of political ads, eight more days of mud-slinging, and eight more days of people trying to influence your vote in their favor. Hope you’ve been looking past the ads and seriously researching who you’re giving your vote to! And here’s a link that might prove helpful in that research: state-by-state listings of the election ( Read more... )

Read this all the way to the end, if you dare. But not after eating ( Read more... )

People... if you ever listen to Bill O'Reilly, please stop. Now. The man is clearly, completely nutso. So wrapped in his own little world that any minute now a pocket dimension will form around him and swallow him whole... or at least, so we can devoutly wish.

Transcript from one of his recent radio shows:
"Since 1973, there have been 40 ( Read more... )

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