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I’m sorry, but I need to immortalize this moment

Just for my own purposes. So I can come back and look at it later. It’s a scrapbook moment, and I don’t have a scrapbook. Just this blog.

Um, so the response to Elizabeth Lambert’s ponytail-yanking incident isn’t sexist or anything…

Elizabeth Lambert, a University of New Mexico football player (that’s soccer, to my fellow Americans – I think “soccer” is a stupid word and try to use it as little as possible, OK?), was involved in a pretty violent incident on the pitch and it wound up on YouTube. She was suspended from the team,Continue reading “Um, so the response to Elizabeth Lambert’s ponytail-yanking incident isn’t sexist or anything…”

That’s it. I’m never watching football again.

Way to go, Democrats

As Sarah Jaffe points out, Representative Bart Stupak (D-Michigan—yes, D, that’s not a typo)… doesn’t think that health insurance should provide abortion coverage. He thinks women should have to buy a separate rider that would cover abortion. Because, y’know, women like me totally plan on aborting lots of babies. The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the healthContinue reading “Way to go, Democrats”

So APPARENTLY we’re having a bit of an ecological catastrophe around here

Something called “sludge fields” at an “aeration station” burned recently, meaning that all of these harmful chemicals have been released into the atmosphere. The headline on that piece, by the way, starts out with “Kievans are being advised not to go outside…” LOL. Well, I’m still breathing (if you can count it as breathing, IContinue reading “So APPARENTLY we’re having a bit of an ecological catastrophe around here”