A cartoon from 1994 shows that ain't nothing's changed in a long while.

Victims of sexual assault know all about victim-blaming. Whenever a high profile case of rape or sexual assault hits the media, there are immediately people talking about how the woman (it's almost always a/… Read full post »

Since the end of WWII--and for most of the 100 years prior--politics has largely been presented as a battle between Statism and Capitalism. The former essentially boils down to trusting the government to intervene against exploitative private interests and build a just society, while the latter… Read full post »

So  a video from the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) has been circulating on Facebook lately. It’s a 15-minute clip of comedian Brad Stine waxing angry about the state of the nation. His routine was both so repulsive and so mind-numbingly, predictably misinformed, that I… Read full post »

The recent dust-up over the Komen foundation's de-funding, and then re-funding, of Planned Parenthood over the past week has now culminated in one of Komen's Vice Presidents resigning. That Mrs. Handel ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 on a platform that included derisive invective against/… Read full post »

Linda Hirshman has a piece in Salon today vis-a-vis Newt's less than stellar marital track record. Her main point is laudable: she's rightly concerned that all the attention paid to politicians' sex lives distracts voters from the more crucial issue of whether the polices they're proposing will… Read full post »

James Livingston recently posted an adapted exerpt from his new book, Against Thift, in which he argues that consumerism isn't all that bad after all--that, in fact, consumerism is not only the solution to our current economic crisis, but can also lead us to better personal fulfillment and even solut… Read full post »