Sometimes the good guys do win. Ryan Cooper, at the Washington Monthly, on “The Divergent Fates of Sarah Palin and Shirley Sherrod“: With the recent retirement of Sarah Palin from her grotesquely lucrative career as a Fox commentator, I immediately thought of another person who was inadvertently catapulted to national prominence: Shirley Sherrod (backstory here). …
Archives for January 2013
Stop Legislating Her Uterus! A TWiB + ABLC Collaboration
Today on TWiB Radio we had Balloon Juice regular Imani Gandy (ABL) on to talk with us about the ridiculous attacks on women that are still going down in 2013. After the shellacking in 2012 the GOP received because of their constant attacks on women (plus a lot of other crap, but that stands out) they still …
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Open Thread
Just out of curiosity, how much do you all think your dogs understand you when you talk to them? I was sitting here in the chair with Lily sitting on my lap, and she was facing me, looking at me lovingly while I spent twenty minutes delicately rubbing her ears and nose and whiskers and …
Site Rebuild Open Thread
As I mentioned last night, we are planning a site rebuild for the second week of February. Last night we raised about a third of what is needed, so if you can, please pitch in here: I personally am interested in going back to the old three column format, which I really liked a lot …
No Exit
Shifty-eyed Frenchman Wayne LaPierre was on Capitol Hill today, using his pie-hole to spray lies and obfuscations in defense of guns ‘n ammo makers’ profits much as a prepper might fantasize about using a drum magazine-fitted assault rifle to spray bullets at imaginary urban hordes to protect his bunker. While LaPierre was lying and obfuscating, …
I Suppose This is Simpler Than Having Them Sew Pink Triangles Onto Their Shirts
Yeah, I went full Godwin. So did Tennessee: Tennessee’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay‘ bill died with the adjournment of the state assembly last year. But now the measure is back — with new, harsher requirements. The bill, SB 234, still bars Tennessee teachers from discussing any facet of “non-heterosexual” sexuality with children in grades K-8. …
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Open Thread
We had a spot of weather today- violent winds and lots and lots of rain, all of which will freeze on the roads before the snow comes tonight and the next three days. What is going on in your neck of the woods?