Fucking rad. The rock duo Heart is the latest group to publicly veto a stump song, condemning the McCain-Palin ticket for using its ’70s hit “Barracuda” as the theme for Gov. Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women,” Heart members Ann and Nancy Wilson told Entertainment Weekly […]
It’s all about Sarah Haskin’s Target Women on Current TV. Here’s one of my faves: Between this and Kristen Schaal segments on the Daily Show, I’m all set. Check this next Target Women on Suffrage. And pay special attention about 2 minutes and 20 seconds in.
Hold on to your birth control, ladies! John McCain has chosen experience maven Sarah Palin as his running mate! The Alaska Governor, formerly a beauty queen and the mayor of a suburb of Anchorage, has been in office for a whopping two years. She likes Jesus, or at least the version of Jesus that doesn’t
Word that Scott Mackay is leaving the Providence Journal has brought a dark cloud over my sunny day. (Though reading his kick-ass statement made me feel a little better…) Newspapers are going down the tubes. Downsizing is necessary, they say, as there’s just not a profit in this biz anymore. And what is the Belo
I never get tired of bitching about the editorial board. From today’s ProJo, an op-ed on the Electoral College: “Before citizens jump on the bandwagon [of the dissolution of the Electoral College], they would be wise to consider what the Founders were trying to do in creating what has turned out to be the most
The Providence Journal’s Editorial Page does a pretty good job. If that job is an awkward misrepresentation of facts, spun to serve their pseudo-independent conservative agenda, then yeah, they totally rock it. I was gonna rip on the editorial board’s Froma Harrop, who lives in Providence and writes a syndicated column, last week when I
Okay, complete disclosure… I’m crazy about this woman. She’s just so brainy and cool and I can’t wait to have sophisticated, smart people in the White House. Sounds good to me — but no. The New York Times reports that the consultants and spin-meisters have been called in to ‘fix’ her. Now her husband’s presidential
Reason #1: Citing a tripling in domestic violence homicides in the past two years, Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday declared a “public health emergency” and directed health and safety officials to review data over the past three years and produce a trend analysis. In 2007, there were 42 murders and 13 suicides related to domestic violence,
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You know you want to. Sue Simmons (Channel4 news in NYC) says a swear live. nsfw [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYAMDhVT50I]
Only a few minutes into the movie Iron Man, Tony Stark, the amoral munitions titan, is barraged with inconvenient questions from an aggressive female Vanity Fair reporter. He dismissively sums her up by assuming she attended Berkeley, to which she responds “Brown”. So, like it or not, Brown University is clearly shorthand for a certain
Here’s a new entry in the self-loathing sweepstakes — how to talk to the children about your cosmetic surgery. In his new book (to be released on Mother’s Day) plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer outlines the approaches for talking to your kids about being shallow and insecure and why the family won’t have a vacation this
As someone who was voted ‘most likely to twist her ankle’ in high school I can’t identify with this activity at all. I have been known to injure myself squeezing out a sponge. This morning’s ProJo has an article about the Co-ed Fight Club for Girls at the E&O Tap. (Unfortunately Monday is my Scrabble
I do believe Summer Glau is reinventing herself. Judging from this pin-up in the latest Vanity Fair the sci-fi weirdo-teen has morphed into… well… Kelly Ripa. Where is the endearing control-freak schizo of The 4400 or the unstable avenging angel schizo of Firefly? She’s been drained of all her creepy charm. Is her new show