I'll reiterate what I wrote somewhere on  Salon.com, and please don't anyone take this personally.

Someday in the future, another female candidate for presidency will come as close as Clinton has, and maybe even closer, to winning. And it is my earnest belief that no matter who this lady is,/… Read full post »

** Courtesy of my boyfriend.  Read full post »

I was reading Wonkette's live-blog of last night's primaries, and it hit me like a ton of bricks, when I read this comment:

Please Gary and Monroe, please, free America, expel the clingon monsters!

When Hillary drops out, people will dance on her grave with a sexist glee… Read full post »

In a simply intolerable piece on Slate this week, Christopher Hitchens ponders whether Obama's affiliation with Rev. Wright is the fault of Mrs. Obama and not the candidate himself.

Where other commentators have surmised that Obama tolerated Wright not because he necessarily agrees with his pro-Far… Read full post »

Spritely naifs like myself skip through life assuming smart, left-wing men that we respect could not possibly be sexist.

So, when we open our laptops on a Sunday morning and discover that men we otherwise respected and admired actually harbor some very strange ideas about ladies, it's like a/… Read full post »

I was going to write about the "worst of the worst" al-Jazeera cameraman released without charge after 6 years from Guantanamo Bay.

But there's just so much more there, and all in the past week!

• Nine other people were released, also without charge: Five detainees were/
… Read full post »

• "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is not in the constitution, it's in the Declaration of Independence. The 5th amendment guarantees, however, that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty and property without due process.
• Amendment XII requires that the president and the vice president
… Read full post »

Question: Ok, so suppose a CIA agent relied on the Torture Memo and did something within its bounds, like pulling someone's nails, or electrocuting their testicles, and then that Memo is rescinded, and it turns out her conduct is illegal. Is she shit out of luck?

Short Answer: Highly/… Read full post »

The fact that few in Dubya's retinue are lawyers is often lamented, and blamed in part for the stunning lawlessness of his administration. The next president will hopefully know a thing or two about the constitution. If it's John McCain, however, that is not assured, so I thought I'd… Read full post »

[With credit to Sandra M. for the title]

I was waiting for the crosswalk, when I overhead a man tell another man behind me, "... so, I'm thinking, we could invite a bunch of guys, you know succcessful guys, to meet up once a month, and build a network,… Read full post »

Stanley Fish writes this morning on the New York Times about the McCarthyism of Obama's Bill Ayers association. There is also a full spectrum of communist accusations: there are suspicions that his parents were communists (evidence: they had an interracial marriage. No seriously, this is on the Nat… Read full post »

Yesterday, the New York Times published an expose on persecution of Protestant denominations in Russia, and the alignment of the majority Russian Orthodox church with the Putin-Medevdev government. This is the second article in the series Kremlin Rules, the first exposing persecution of the politica… Read full post »

The official version goes something like this: North Korea was selling nuclear technology to Syria. To prevent nuclear proliferation, Israel destroyed a nuclear facility in Syria in September 2007 with airstrikes. Now, to quell suspicions that the site was not nuclear, and to put pressure on the No… Read full post »

Salon.com has been debating the stupid but irresistable question: what's worse in America, the sexism or the racism?

I'd say much more sexism has been openly directed at Senator Clinton than racism at Senator Obama. However, when looking outside of the primaries, there is a lot of racism out/… Read full post »

Laura Bush recently appeared on The Today Show as a guest host (clip here). 

Matt Lauer: "Do you think [Dubya] is watching this live or is he Tivoing this?"

Laura Bush: "He's probably Tivoing it."

Matt Lauer: "He's got other things on his plate."

Like appearing on Deal or… Read full post »

Thought I'd jump right in.

Having discovered Jim Webb's 1979 anti-woman screed last night, I was struck by the cruelty of the plebe system the demise of which he deplores. Compare the abuse he speaks of with Abu Ghraib:

• Three others took turns beating me with a
… Read full post »