I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more striking example of Intelligence vs. Ignorance and Enlightenment vs. Dogma. I wish I believed in hell so I could be certain the idiot Talibs were destined for it. Ehsanullah Ehsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that Yousafzai “is the […]
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Feminism
My generation, spoiled by the advances of those who went before us, lost our grip on feminism’s banner. I’m grateful to this site for making it evident that the struggle is still going on, the activism is still needed, and that it can be done with a sense of humour that the stereotypical “angry […]
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Becoming Marilyn
The name was a façade, and it seems the façade was a façade, too. Poor girl. It took a lot of work to “be” Marilyn Monroe. The starlet slathered on layers of Vaseline, hormone cream, Erno Laszlo Active pHelityl Cream, or Nivea (meaning “snow white”) to give a glow under studio lights, followed by a […]
ThinkGeek :: Self-Rescuing Princess – Kids
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/kids/bad7/ Ace. (Great find by my pal Kim, herself a self-rescuing princess, and the mom of a future SRP.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY “The man and the hour had met.” In this case, though, it was the woman and the song: A Scottish spinster – who looks not unlike my grandmother and comports herself like a Glasgow keelie – sashayed onstage at Britain’s Got Talent, and proved that it certainly did. I’ve watched this five times and […]
notagirlygirls reviews – StumbleUpon
http://notagirlygirl.stumbleupon.com/ Bitch, can you, like, hurry up and post some new stuff? I’m sitting here waiting to be entertained. (PS After years of Stumbling, isn’t this the review you’ve always dreamed I’d give?)
Sadie Farrell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_the_Goat Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869) was an American criminal, gang leader and river pirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat. She first came to prominence as a vicious street mugger in New York’s “Bloody” Fourth Ward. Upon encountering a lone traveler, she would headbutt men in the stomach and her male accomplice would hit […]
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http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2008/10/101908_1.html Rather than spending her post-political life settling down to the dinner circuit, ex-Minister of External Affairs Flora McDonald has taken to the remote areas of Afghanistan with her humanitarian NGO. She’s preaching the benefits of schools and health care (including birth control) in a country where international focus has mainly been on military action. […]