Monthly Archives: June 2010
Sharron Angle: You Can’t Have An Abortion Because It’s God’s Plan You Were Raped
The only vote this woman would get from me is for Supreme Fucking Asshole of the Year. Sharon Angle, the Tea Party member and GOP challenger to Harry Reid’s Nevada Senate seat, is anti-choice. She also apparently thinks that if you’re raped by your father and want to have an abortion, you have to “have [...]
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What We Missed.
Dana takes on the $17 million program to fight rape in Congo. Is it working? The case against using “real” to describe plus size models. NYTimes reviews the show, “Huge.” I was on Grit TV talking about Nikki Haley! It is the She Writes One Year Anniversary. Learn more about them.
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BET: What about the survivors?
Chris Brown’s “breakdown” during his Michael Jackson tribute at the BET Awards *Trigger Warning* On the last day of the US Social Forum, I ran into an old friend from a campaign I had worked on a few years back. I had seen her on the first day but bee-lined in the other direction. I [...]
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Let’s play a game
It’s called Things That Would Never Happen in American Politics. I usually play it with French politics, like when Ségolène Royale replaced her former common law husband, with whom she had four children, as head of the Socialist party, and ran against Nicolas Sarkozy. Today, let’s play it with Australian politics. As you might know, [...]
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Quick Hit Recap: Yesterday’s Kagan Hearings