http://news.nacla.org/2007/03/22/how-pink-is-the-pink-tide/

A really interesting article about how "left" politics don't have to necessarily correspond with feminist politics.

It's times like these where I remember what it was like to have no friends--i.e., most of last year. Except for a pretty enjoyable time out today with Laney, I've pretty much been doing homework all weekend.

To paraphrase Betty Friedan, 'is this all'?

( A Just Cause, Not A Just War, by Howard Zinn )

( Complaints ensue )

If you ever use "imposed tolerance" in reference to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I will cut you. I'm sick of that shit. Especially when you don't even TRY to look at the socio-political context of said legislation in terms of why it was needed.

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BUT I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! THEY HAD A BLIMP, AND TEH CAMPAIGN SET FUNDRAISING RECORDS!!1 WTF MAN I HAET DEMOCRACY. ITS TEH WOMEN VOTERS...IF I HAD MY WAY TEHY WUDLDNT VOTE. NOW TEH NEOCON FACSCIST FREEDOM AND CONSTITUION HAETING SOCIALISTS WILL HAEV TEHR WAY!!!11 WE SHULD ALL JUST VOET FOR GIULIANI BCUZ WE R GOIN 2 HAV A POLIEC STAET NYWAYZ. OH TEH ( Read more... )

I hate Milton Friedman.

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