Alyssa praises and laments that much-discussed Esquire piece on Walter Hern, the last American doctor specializing in late-term abortions: True, magazines like Marie Claire, theoretically the smart-girl’s alternative, and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Glamour, do publish pieces about abortion and reproductive rights more generally. But pieces like this, that truly encapsulate the debates, and do it in extraordinary language Read More
Summer’s over. I know you don’t want to hear it, but it is. Bright side: aren’t you glad to have the streets free from roaming packs of teenagers? This week’s Friday Random theme is: songs that remind us of going back school. Blackink is busy with, like…real life work and stuff, so you’re stuck with Read More
There were a lot of reasons the Clintons’ efforts at healthcare reform died in the early 1990s, but a big part of it was the campaign of fear waged by Republican operatives like Betsy McCaughey. McCaughey falsely asserted in a column that under the Clintons’ health care proposal, it would be illegal for citizens to Read More
Plaxico Burress probably should have established residency in Arizona, where he could have registered his handgun – or an automatic weapon, even – and then brandished it at a large public event. Maybe even at a health care town hall hosted by the president of the United States. That would have been perfectly legal. And Second Amendment Read More
I have no commentary on what comes below except to say *headdesk*. Repeatedly. From the Curvature: Trigger Warning Three years ago in B.C., Canada, a woman woke up in the bed of the man in the image to the left. She was bleeding and bruised, and though she remembered going out for a night on Read More
[from feministdonut, cross-posted from The Feminist Texican.] Over the past month or so, I’ve been seeing all kinds of articles on what a feminist show this is. Much as I lovelovelove the show (”Mad Men” and “Project Runway” are pretty much the only times I turn on the TV each week), every time I read Read More
Watching this, I realize that my worldview was greatly influenced by all the Archie comics I read as a kid. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3240792&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] more about "Colbert Reacts to Archie’s Comic Prop…", posted with vodpod (Also, can I just say, what garbage it is that Archie proposed Veronica? Hm…maybe I missed the point here.) [H/T Feministing.]
Norfolk State’s marching band takes on Lalah Hathaway’s “That Was Then.” [via Soulbounce]
Last March, after a very fraught period during the run-up to the presidential election we got to listen to Barack Obama make a personal and moving speech about race – not only its role in his life but that of America as a nation. After we breathed a sigh of relief that the Reverend Wright Read More
