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the red earth of Tara... and so forth
I meant to write this last year during Oscar time when people were naming the worst Best Picture winner. Gone With the Wind was named by someone who didn't appear to have paid that much attention to the film or its context. He essentially called it an overly long, big studio, moonlight and magnolia melodrama, which demonstrated a lack of film ( Read more... ) -
Hobby Lobby v. Uteruses decision (or What Does the Vagina Say?)
The Hobby Lobby shit is dominating my internet experience, pelting me with disinformation. Allow me to address a portion of the bullshit ( Read more... ) -
Membership has its privileges
This issue has been grating on me more and more lately. Most recently, by a letter from a nationalistic xenophobic British man being passed around like he's said something noble or heroic ( Read more... ) -
no, you're just a narcissistic twat
I feel the need to piss and moan for a bit. I often feel this need, but today I feel like posting it on the interwebs and pretending it's worth the bandwidth ( Read more... ) -
Regarding things to be placed in my vagina and/or uterus.
I am being double teamed by the stupid this week. It's simply not acceptable that the Chick-Fil-A thing and the "free" birth control thing happen in the same week. I can only fear for my sexual and reproductive rights so much at a time, people ( Read more... ) -
In Case of Zombie Apocalypse...
As is the norm with the US, every time there's a mass civilian shooting, we start arguing about gun control. For whatever it's worth (probably very little), I heard cries of "don't you use this as an excuse to limit my personal arsenal!" quite a while before I heard anyone on the left broach the subject of limiting personal arsenals. It's like the ( Read more... ) -
voter ID requirements and such
This is coming up a lot lately. For most Americans, it's no trouble at all to obtain a government issued voter ID, right? Per the law of the land, all American citizens (sans certain felons) 18 or over have the right to vote, regardless of age, state of health or socioeconomic status ( Read more... ) -
SCOTUS upheld the individual mandate... Everybody panic!
Roberts' decisive vote was based on the premise that the individual mandate is in fact a tax. Opponents object to paying a tax for not buying something, effectively forcing them to buy insurance ( Read more... )