Last week, my state blew it. The legislature was within a mouse’s fart of passing a bill that would have given same-sex couples equal marriage recognition but, at the very last minute, the bill failed like Michelle Bachmann on a…
Category: My Soapbox
A Woman’s Place…
As we fall deeper into 2011, or as I’m now going to call it, the Year of the Spending Cut, we’re seeing increasingly histrionic arguments on both sides of the aisle. Republicans are being accused of declaring war on women.…
Stop With The Violent Talk, Already!
The cock-smoking asshats are on the march again. Remember last fall when I went into a profound mental fugue state over some jackwad who stomped on a woman’s head at a political event because he liked one candidate and she…
Fact Check: Government-Issue Breastpumps?
There has been a minor disturbance in the Force this week when a Member of Congress went on Dr. Laura’s show (which I was not aware she had since I thought she quit radio a while ago. Is she back?)…
V-Day
I don’t do Valentine’s Day. There are two big reasons. First, my wedding anniversary is later in the week which is like a Get Out Of Valentine’s day Free card for LIFE. Second, when I was about 14, I decided…
Congressional Sex Scandal!
Well! Did you all see the news yesterday? Gawker broke a story about Representative Chris Lee of New York exchanging flirty emails with a woman who had placed some sort of post on Craig’s List. He emailed her shirtless pics…
No Means No
UPDATE: As proof that advocacy matters and citizen voices can and should count, the sponsor of the bill has removed the questionable language and replaced it with the language in the existing Hyde amendment that has been preventing tax dollars…
Choices
This post was reprinted with my permission at Salon.com on January 21, 2011. I was not compensated for that reprint. Warning: If you oppose legal abortion, please be aware that I do not share your position on this matter. However,…
Don’t Reload. Don’t.
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour of the evening sun Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To…
Women ARE People, Justice Scalia
I was having an ordinary Tuesday morning, sitting at my desk with a cup of coffee, scanning the headlines and watching the clock in advance of an impending staff meeting. Then my head exploded. Why exactly did my brains fly…
