You Can Put Down Your Champagne Now "As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue. So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company [...]
What a Trainwreck "And now the fate of healthcare reform hangs in an intra-party fight over abortion: "'In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the [...]
Monday Blogaround
You have no rights "The Stupak amendment, the greatest rollback of rights for women in decades is now in that thing the House has been calling a "Health Care" bill. (Links from Reclusive Leftist, The Confluence, WiredLeft.) "But women are just, as always, the expendable canaries in the coal mine. Their rights are toast, which [...]
Today in Rape Culture "[Trigger warning.] "…Sanchez is right that there are different kinds of rapists, but they are not distinguished by where they commit rapes. Back-alley or bedroom, a sadistic rapist is a sadistic rapist, for whom the sadism of rape is not a bug but a feature. "To imply, however, that we might [...]
Misogyny hijacks health care reform vote REQUIRED READING – "…even though most people, when pressed, don’t have the nerve to force women to have babies against their will, anti-choicers aren’t entirely wrong about their ability to use female sexuality to stir up anger and fear. The problem is that when you get people to think [...]
Looking to the past "Ignoring the present doesn’t benefit the future. It benefits the status quo."
Yast Tracks and Logs Time Spent on Projects and Tasks [Time Tracking] "If you're looking for a simple time-tracking tool with visuals that are easy to read at a glance, Yast fits the bill. "Yast can track multiple projects and tasks each with their own color code. The week-at-a-glance view is great for seeing how [...]
GetDeb.net Repository Makes Newer Ubuntu Apps Easily Available [Linux] "GetDeb's web site has long been the go-to spot for Ubuntu (and Debian, and Mint) users to grab the latest copies of software not yet released by their official repositories. Now GetDeb makes it even easier with a repository. "By adding GetDeb's repository to your Linux [...]
Why FreeRange? « FreeRangeKids "We are not daredevils. We believe in life jackets and bike helmets and air bags. But we also believe in independence. "Children, like chickens, deserve a life outside the cage."
Cleveland official questions handling of complaints about death house – CNN.com It sickens me that someone had to say this: "'We've heard a lot of feedback on what the character may or may not have been of some of these victims,' Phyllis Cleveland, City Council majority leader, told reporters. 'And that really doesn't matter. No [...]
hughcasey: "You don't believe in my loving and forgiving God!? Then I hate you!" "According to a civil suit filed in CT, a district manager for the Bath & Body Works chain of stores was fired because she was a Wiccan." via rm@livejournal
hughcasey: "You don't believe in my loving and forgiving God!? Then I hate you!" "According to a civil suit filed in CT, a district manager for the Bath & Body Works chain of stores was fired because she was a Wiccan." via rm@livejournal
Watch Out For The Gumblar Botnet « Weblog Tools Collection "One thing not mentioned in the Unmasked Parasites post is information regarding which specific versions of WordPress are at risk or are safe to use. I’ve left a comment on the blog post to try and get an answer but until then, Denis Sinegubko provides [...]
WordPress 2.9 Revamps Hello World « Weblog Tools Collection "…a small change with huge benefits without having one line of code written."
Maternity Leave as a Feminist Flashpoint …my vision of more flexible workplace policies that would allow us all to be healthier, less crazed people has very little to do with some kind of quid pro quo with my child-bearing sisters. While I will admit to occasionally being annoyed when one workplace colleague on Facebook (who [...]