[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Nothing new about tea partiers One of the most evocative examples of how media bias towards novelty works in politics has to be the way that mainstream media is covering the teabagger movement. Any fool could [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Free Speech Isn't Free Not being a lawyer I can't figure out the rightness of this ruling, but there it is. Predator Theory « Fugitivus …serial rapists operate with identifiable patterns that can be witnessed and [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/30 Dynamic WidgetsGives you more control over your widgets. It lets you dynamicly place widgets on WordPress pages by excluding or including rules by role, for the homepage, single posts, pages, categories, [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Stigma Kills: A Concrete Example Often when bloggers or activists push back against ableist language and stereotypes in the media, especially pop culture, someone will respond with an argument that there are more important disability issues [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] USA: Beacon of Stupid Add Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) to the growing list of people who are getting non-terror death threats. [...] The problem that we're experiencing now is quite possibly the biggest indictment against our [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] A Wrinkle In Time Finally Gets Vengeace For Crappy Disney TV Movie, With A Real Feature Film [A Wrinkle In Time] What’s Happened To Torchwood? [Torchwood] The Runaways Not knowing about The Runaways is another one [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] WordPress Theme Releases for 03/18 Earthly incorporates a color scheme designed for sites that require an eco-friendly or earthy theme. Please Do Mess With Texas By now, it may be old news to you that the [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Artists Needed Guess who is looking for artists? – Ubuntu User Magazine! Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Guess What? Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men | Women & Hollywood You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] On Values and Faith This being an election year (can it be? I've barely recovered from the last election), I've begun to hear familiar murmurings from conservatives about how the GOP will appeal to "values voters" [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Another scary aspect of the mainstreaming of global warming denialism …at its base, global warming denialism is a conspiracy theory. Yep, just like birtherism, 9/11 truther crap, and the belief that NASA didn’t really put a [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] On Misogyny and Misandry The equal-sign between a man-hater and a feminist is always exciting for me. Why is demanding equal opportunities for women and equal respect for traditionally female spheres of activity the same as [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] tales of adventure – what really works my nerves about avatar. Much like people keep fantasizing about how they would have treated indigenous people in the us/western hemisphere differently than their great great grandpappy did (?), [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] stephiepenguin: sometimes i love broken things (feminism) Hey so, I totally love being a feminist, right? I am all about equity and awesomeness, and including all women (trans women and cis women)* in a world where [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The (Gender) Politics of Pee If you mostly travel along US highways with endless fast-food joints or in European cities with clean port-a-potties—Bonjour, Paris! Hej, Stockholm!—you may never have paid too much attention to the socio-cultural [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Think of the Children: When Explaining Gay Marriage to Kids Results In Cute I’m home sick today, so excuse me if I have chosen to displace my blogging duties on to adorable little boy Calen (above), [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Like it or not, flu shots work …NY Times is understandably fascinated by the cultural and effort-related aspects of this story, which involves a bunch of researchers swooping in and using an isolated religious farming communities [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] What is The International Day of Awesomeness? (title unknown) Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Omnibar extension makes Firefox's awesomebar act like Google Chrome's omnibar, collapsing the address bar and search into one single text box. We've mentioned [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] We Need to Consider More than Universities Predators are good at target selection. All of them. We see this in the uni rapists who repeatedly assault vulnerable young people. And the analysis of these assaults and [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Dear Abby… So, you would think our Dear Abby would print a retraction of her original response when faced with evidence that women have valid reasons for objecting to this practice. Instead, she practically cheered on [...]