• 50 Beau­tiful And User-​​Friendly Nav­i­ga­tion Menus -
  • Word­Press Plugin Releases for 02/​04 — This day would be a winner for Simply Show IDs alone. (Y’all. I am totally addicted to surfing for plugins.)
  • Smashing Mag­a­zine: Mas­tering Word­Press Short­codes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Mag­a­zine — “…how to create and use short­codes, as well as pro­vide killer ready-​​to-​​use Word­Press short­codes that will enhance your blog­ging experience.”
  • ProBlogger: 13 Quick tips to Make Your Blog STAND OUT from the Crowd -
  • Digby: Shouting Down the Wingnuts (Hul­la­baloo) — “Wingnut radio has gone com­pletely nuts, appar­ently, and they have their dit­to­heads calling the Senate to com­plain about the recovery plan.“So, because the democ­rats are now going wobbly, we need to call them and tell them to do their duty. (sigh.…)

    “CAF has made that easy for us…”

  • Shakesville: Bale v. O’Reilly — Video — bad lan­guage warning.
  • Fem­i­niste: Home­less­ness Increases Among Female Vet­erans — “the rates of home­less­ness, not to men­tion stub­stance abuse, trauma and other lasting impacts of combat, need to be dealt with across the board, for both men and women. But the solu­tions might not be the same across the board, because the causes may also be dif­ferent. And in working out solu­tions to this problem — real, long-​​term solu­tions that go beyond the neces­sity of pro­viding beds for people to sleep in — that needs to be taken into account.”
  • F-​​Word Blog: How we talk about fer­til­i­sa­tion -
  • Dday: Better (Hul­la­baloo) — Obama makes his case (some more).
  • Shakesville: But Michael Phelps smoked pot -
  • Dday: Eye­balls Pop­ping From Sockets (Hul­la­baloo) — “I’m not calling the Senate. I’m calling MSNBC, calling CNN, calling the New York Times, calling ABC, calling CBS, and telling them I’m advising everyone I know to sell their stock and doing what­ever I can to hurt their bottom line even worse than it is now. We need to throw a Sin­clair Broad­casting on their col­lec­tive asses. They are doing more than hurting America this time. They are destroying it.”
  • Pam’s House Blend: Prop. 8: What can $83 mil­lion buy? — “Isn’t it a shame that a few anti-​​gay Cal­i­for­nians forced cit­i­zens to spend $83 mil­lion on a mea­sure that denies gay and les­bian cou­ples the right to marry when that money could have done so much good to help the sick, poor, and hungry? Thou­sands of needy Cal­i­for­nians could have ben­e­fited from the funds that were spent on Prop. 8.”
  • Digby: The Sad And The Beau­tiful (Hul­la­baloo) — Obama makes his case for the stim­ulus bill.
  • The F-​​Word Blog: BBC and sexism — why it’s more com­pli­cated than that — “…the BBC would do well to examine why a grossly offen­sive com­ment by a woman, in the green room with two other people present resulted in her being effec­tively sacked whilst grossly offen­sive com­ments by men, on national tele­vi­sion to thou­sands of viewers results in them get­ting pay increased and the full pro­tec­tion of the BBC.”
  • Pam’s House Blend: The reli­gious right and the power of trans­fer­ence -
  • Shakesville: Dis­patches from the Reality-​​Based Com­mu­nity — “Kiefer Suther­land explains that people in the real world might not want to base their ethics and job per­for­mance on the imag­i­nary world depicted in tele­vi­sion programs.“Could someone please explain this con­cept to Jus­tice Scalia? Thanks.”
  • Tris­tero: What I Learned from NPR This Morning (Hul­la­baloo) — “Now, the ques­tions I have to ask are these. The blo­gos­phere knows the fix is in and is screaming bloody murder, of course. But we hardly matter to the MSM. Where the [bleep] are the top Democ­rats? And why aren’t they com­plaining about this dis­grace­fully biased cov­erage? The only Demo­crat I recall quoted in this report was some non-​​entity who basi­cally said he’d do any­thing he could to help the Repub­li­cans seize the ini­tia­tive on fixing the economy.“Clearly, the top of the party has learned zip in the past 8 to 10 years or so. I think it’s time to work seri­ously to replace them.”
  • The Pur­suit of Harpy­ness: What We Should Talk About When We Talk About Les­bian Sep­a­ratism — “These women found a way – and it was not an easy way for them, let’s be honest – to live their lives such that they felt more human. They felt more like whole people living apart than it seemed society would grant them.“And that’s fucking sad, but the reason it’s sad is not because they’re ‘wrong.’ I’m just not willing to call these women deluded about their own expe­ri­ences. They had, obvi­ously, a kind of early life that turned them from men per­ma­nently – of being les­bian in a society that barely had a name for it, or of being raped or sex­u­ally abused, or of being told their worth was nothing absent mar­riage and the bearing of chil­dren. I wish everyone would keep in mind that it’s patri­archy that’s wrong here. It’s patri­archy that made these women feel this way. […]

    “Some­times, when I am in the heat of an internet argu­ment, I start to forget how much of my devo­tion to fem­i­nism is rooted in good old boring ordi­nary com­pas­sion. Because I am a person who enjoys talking about ideas abstractly, I can sym­pa­thize with those who want to syn­the­size the con­tri­bu­tions of these women, read them down into a pithy state­ment like ‘Good fem­i­nists should live apart from men’ that I can then refute with rhetor­ical razzle-​​dazzle.

    “But those dis­cus­sions, they aren’t the whole truth of the matter.”

  • Pandagon: Bamboo Reviews: Rev­o­lu­tionary Road, The Movie -
  • The Mah­ablog: Caps and Cans — “The CEOs of the finan­cial industry brought this on them­selves because they proved they can’t be trusted with money. We saw from the first wave of no-​​strings-​​or-​​oversight-​​attached bailouts from the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion that they can’t be trusted with money. You might as well give the bailout money to crack addicts.“Although CEOs cannot directly write their own checks, as I under­stand it their com­pen­sa­tion is deter­mined by the Board of Direc­tors, an insu­lated group of people living in the same bubble of priv­i­lege as the exec­u­tives. Appar­ently, boards of direc­tors of finan­cial insti­tu­tions cannot be trusted with money, either.

    “Those who are still insu­lated are whining that a $500,000 cap is ‘draconian.’”

  • Tiger Beat­down: Um, WHAT? Whoa. — “Psy­chol­o­gists, child devel­op­ment spe­cial­ists, and all con­cerned with the devel­op­ment of per­son­ality, take note: it is twenty-​​six years later, and I have still not stopped making this face.”
  • Melissa McEwan: More Tool Academy — “It’s emi­nently pos­sible to both acknowl­edge the Tool Aca­d­e­mics are suf­fering because of their adher­ence to patri­ar­chal stan­dards and that they’re abu­sive because of their adher­ence to patri­ar­chal standards.“As to whether change is pos­sible, well, if I didn’t believe it were, I wouldn’t be blogging—and I cer­tainly wouldn’t believe in tea­spoons. It is my expe­ri­ence that both men and women are capable of unwinding, to varying degrees, their indoc­tri­na­tion into the system and regard them­selves and others with the egal­i­tar­i­anism, autonomy, and dig­nity that the patri­archy seeks to deny.”
  • Fem­i­nisting: Fun with Fem­i­nist Flickr (activism edi­tion) — “Check out this poster from a uni­ver­sity campus in Ontario, Canada. If you notice the small tear in the poster, it’s because someone thought that the whole “don’t rape women” mes­sage was super offen­sive. In fact, sev­eral other posters put up decrying vio­lence against women were van­dal­ized. Sigh.”
  • Tiger Beat­down: The Weapon — “Every now and again, I come on some­thing that I feel I can’t even begin to address. Every now and then, I come on some­thing that I have to address. This is both… This sit­u­a­tion does not arise from prob­lems inherent to Islam, but prob­lems inherent to misogyny, which made every single aspect of this sit­u­a­tion possible.”