I’m going to keep this apolitical, even though it is about a politician. Here’s what I don’t understand. How on earth did Rep. McKinney not get indicted? This has eluded me for days. She was not wearing her Representatives pin. She tried to bypass the metal detectors at the capitol. When she was stopped, she actually [...]
I used to really, really enjoy reading The Attractive Nuisance then, at some point, she mysteriously became unfunny. Now it’s a train-wreck, which is sad. I’m not one to judge, of course, because it’s a personal blog and she writes about personal things and that’s totally allowed, so I’ve resisted the urge to comment here [...]
In a previous post I wondered “Are there issues on which lacking some major faculty like vision or hearing could be a serious detriment to the execution of sound public policy?” While I half expected a number of self-righteous (and idiotic) “It’s wrong to even think about such things” comments, I got none. I did get [...]
Ok, listen. This isn’t a popular opinion, but it’s mine, so here it is: New Orleans was a stupid place to build a city, a stupid place to live, and stupid place to re-build a city. I understand the importance of having a port at the mouth of the Mississippi, but let’s be honest: flooding [...]
Doug has a post entitled Life: Inexcusable things men do to women — he’s pretty much dead on. Not really very many quibbles1, especially after he drops this paragraph: Ladies: Keep the safety tips in mind. Definitely. When one of us insists that you have a male escort home, don’t tell us you’ll be fine, you [...]
Because I seem to be getting attacked on all sides (for having the nerve and temerity to suggest that women should be careful and that the rapists should be blamed for the rape), I think I’ll just pull all of the issues into one post. It’ll be fun. Anonymous commenters in general — Sad that some [...]
Alternately Titled: “Kristina Wants you to be Unsafe Too” In re: This Post which is in re: my last post — cherry-picked quotes from Kristina’s blog are in bold and italic. Then my friend Pete posted something basically telling Grant he’s “a fucking moron.” If you go back and read the post you’ll see that that’s not at [...]
Apparently a man has been convicted of “rape” by forcing a woman to receive a oral sex. Does anyone feel bad for this girl? Anyone … anyone …. Bueller …. It’s funny — if I had just ended there, I would have signed up for a thermonuclear comment thread and would be widely regarded giant, insensitive, [...]
Lessons in passive-aggression are still given out daily over here apparently. So Rachel opts out of Weekly Dinner (which Laura has taken over in my absense). No big deal, right? Sure, it was tacky to actually tell your host that you didn’t have fun at the last one, but there’s no requirement to be gracious and [...]
I’ve had this discussion 4 different times with 3 different people and it annoys me every single time. The issue at hand here is over the use of the word “shallow” and how it has come to be highly perjorative and insulting. Some will argue that it’s simply descriptive of a certain set of actions… [...]
