CRANKY

Today I am the crankiest. I do not know why. I woke up with a sneer and it’s just sort of stayed there. I am trying to breathe, trying not to grasp, trying to be centered and aware, and all I find at my center of awareness is CRANKY. Which, okay, now that I’m thinking [...]

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Too busy

My job is having its annual (GENERIC HUGE WORK EVENT) at the end of this month, and it is some big kind of crazy. I have been utterly and sincerely nose to the grindstone every moment of every day at work, and don’t care to be on the computer when I get home. So, no [...]

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The Pill

The Feministing blog put up this request recently:
Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please take some time and respond!
The Pill is often considered one of the most [...]

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News Round-up

I need to stop doing this to myself. And yet, here I am, drunk and naked and reading the news.
First, enjoy this. For those of you not about to read a super long and super hateful blog post, excerpts:
Rape is simply sex (I am talking about ‘husband-rape’ here, for those who deliberately seek to misunderstand [...]

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04/2007

I am completely horrified
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/18/scotus.abortion/
And wow, what a killer quote from Bush:
“Today’s decision affirms that the Constitution does not stand in the way of the people’s representatives enacting laws reflecting the compassion and humanity of America.”
Let’s have that one more time.
“Today’s decision affirms that the Constitution does not stand in the way of the people’s representatives [...]

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