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I started a new tumblr.  Come on and over and submit your own images.

http://keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus.tumblr.com

Cross-posted at Speaker’s Corner.

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[TW for sexual assault, rape apology, victim blaming]

On Tuesday, CBS News reported that their reporter, Lara Logan, had been brutally sexually assaulted and beaten in Tahrir square in Cairo in the immediate aftermath of the announcement that President Mubarak had stepped down.  There were a lot of responses that floated across the interwebs and throughout the media that were deplorable and disgusting.  Salon gives a rundown and then suggests this approach to talking about Logan’s assault:

Here’s what you do say when something like this happens. Like countless women around the world, Lara Logan was attacked in the line of duty. She was assaulted doing her ...

Cross-posted at Speaker’s Corner

This weekend, on the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the conservative website RedState took up the argument that the enslaved in antebellum America are equivalent to fetuses in the womb:

Twice in our nation’s history, arrogant and power-mad Supreme Court Justices have declared that certain humans are exempt from the promise of the Declaration and the guarantees of the Constitution.

In the first instance, in Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court drew a line and declared that those on the “slave” side of the line were entitled to no protection from the law, and could be treated with ...

Crossposted at Speaker’s Corner.

Let’s count how many total nominations there were for Writers Guild of America’s annual awards.

And then we’ll count how many are women! Should be fun and instructive, right?

The full list of nominees is over at Speaker’s Corner with the nominated women identified by their red names.

Here’s the breakdown:

There are 328 people nominated for WGA awards. Of those 328, 78 are women. That is 23.78%

Now, by category.

Dramatic Series: 50 total, 16 women = 32% [THIRD HIGHEST, thank you Mad Men] Comedic Series: 63 total, 16 women = 25.4% New Series: 36 total, 3 women = 8.3% [LOWEST that actually has a woman writer nominated] Episodic Drama (one episode): 8 total, 1 woman = 12.5% Episodic ...

Or something like that. According to Belmont (which is in Nashville), the coach resigned when her same-sex relationship came to light. Of course, as this article says, she was first dismissed by the university after disclosing to her players that she and her partner were expecting a child.

And Belmont really, really, really wants you to know that Coach Lisa Howe made this decision on her own without any prodding or pushing by Belmont (emphasis in quote is mine):

Belmont athletics director Mike Strickland released an official statement: “Women’s soccer coach Lisa Howe has informed the university of her intent to conclude her employment with Belmont. This was a decision Coach Howe made. Belmont is so grateful ...