Cutest baby ever, wearing the World’s Tiniest Feminist baby t-shirt.
Courtesy of “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”:
The quintessential liberal fascist isn’t an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade-school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.
You can tell Goldberg was dying to say “black female grade-school teacher”, but couldn’t quite find an excuse to. And possibly, the second best thing: Goldberg stole his cover graphic from Prussian Blue.
Even better: Nazis were animal rights activists, and therefore, Nazis weren’t bad people.
Apparently the goal of his book was to link everything liberals do (have done, or will do) with Hitler and other fascists in order to point out how awesome conservatives are. Genius, really!
[via Sadly, No]
Time magazine recently wrote about a research study that linked abortions to future occurrences of premature births and low birth weight babies, by 2 and 3, respectively. I understand that Time was trying to explain to the general population that
the study is hardly perfect; the data is more than 40 years old and doesn’t distinguish between medical abortions and ’spontaneous abortions,’ better known as miscarriages.
Even with this statement in the first paragraph of their article, the shocking headline doesn’t quite convey the same message.
They claim that the large sample size helps to increase significance, but when they sample used for the study is over 50 years old and doesn’t distinguish between medical abortions and miscarriages, I would think that sample size doesn’t matter when something this big was ignored by the researchers. While the journal it was published in is not that credible, but the general American public doesn’t know these things.
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Maybe if Jamie Lynn Spears had received an education other than one that was focused on abstinence, she wouldn't be three months pregnant right now. She would have learned how to use a condom properly or she would have been on birth control. Technically, legally, she shouldn’t have been having sex anyways: the age of consent in Louisiana is 17. I didn’t initially plan on vocalizing my opinion about the Spears pregnancy disaster, but I just couldn’t hold my tongue any longer.
Being a huge Hillary Clinton fan, it is only natural for people to assume that I will be voting for her in the upcoming California primary. I’m not going to lie - I love the Clintons. The whole family, actually. It’s a shame they didn’t have any sons or gay daughters, because I’d do anything to be a Clinton.
With that said, the upcoming Presidential election (that I have been waiting far too long for) is not as clear cut for me as it should be. I love Clinton and some of her policies. At the same time, I like some of Obama’s policies… and some of Edwards’s as well. When it comes to the 2008 election, I’m facing a bit of a problem: the Democratic candidates are all so solid that I’m not sure which one is most likely to take the White House on January 20, 2009.
This is so infuriating! If a woman says “no”, she says “no”! It doesn’t matter who she is saying “no” to. Apparently, in the UK, a top Tory senior adviser says that “suggested rape accusations made by women against their partners should be treated as “disagreements” between lovers.”
Well of course it’s a disagreement. One person says wants to have sex, the other doesn’t, and the one who wants to doesn’t give a shit what their partner wants and rapes them. That is, very obviously, a disagreement. His justification is ridiculous:
A judge in Canada called a rape victim “stupid” and “naive” because she got into a car with a man who offered to take her to a bus station, but instead drove her to a cemetery and brutally raped her. While the judge did sentence the rapist with 3 1/2 years in prison, he took the opportunity during sentencing to blame the victim for her foolishness.
Facebook crossed a line with its new advertising program, and, apparently, I’m not the only person who thinks so. Other people are getting pretty angry and are starting to write about the frustration they are feeling because Facebook is owned by money grubbing whores.
Even with the changes they made as a result to the outcry, there is still no clear and easy way to opt out.
Apparently, teen birth rates are up (quite a lot) for the first time in 14 years. I also enjoy the fact that births by unwed mothers are still connected with teen births. I thought we had accepted the whole single parent thing?
Think it has anything to do with Bush’s ridiculously failed attempt at sex education? Abstinence only education does not work, Mr. President.
[Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs]
According to the ever amazing New York Times, people with asperger’s syndrome refer to themselves as “aspies”. My 21 year-old brother has asperger’s, knows it, and has never once called himself an “aspie”. He just says he’s “different” and “cool”. He even went to a special school for kids with developmental disabilities and he doesn’t call himself an “aspie”. Way to make a neurological disorder sound like a puppy dog.
“Aspies”? Seriously? It makes it sound so cutesy - like they have a support group that meets every Thursday at 6:30pm. They don’t need a support group, they just need other people to understand them.
While the article was clearly written for laypeople with little knowledge of autism spectrum disorders, it is riddled with pointless sentences. My favorite probably being “they often have normal or above-average intelligence”. This is really a pointless sentence altogether, seeing as how people with asperger’s are just like anyone else as far as intelligence goes: there are just as many intelligent people as their are dumbasses. Like almost everyone else in the world, 99% of people with autism spectrum disorders have things that they are good and bad at. They’re called skills - or even strengths and weaknesses. I thought we had killed this whole “autistic savant” stereotype?
