Marcotte: “KEEP YOUR STRAWBERRY JAM OFF MY UTERUS!”* **** update:  “…And while we’re on the subject, STOP OBJECTIFYING MY NOOKS AND CRANNIES!”*

In a stunning display of both internet savvy and character judgment, leading Democrat Presidential candidate John Edwards has named his campaign’s blogmaster. Markos Zuniga? Oliver Willis? Jane Hamsher? No, friends. It’s even better than that. The Edwards campaign blogger is none other than the queen of misguided histrionics herself, Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte. Dear God, is this ever going to be funny. Comedy platinum! I’ll give Edwards this: his blog is

Yesterday, none of us managed successully to provoke a response out of the Feministing team regarding Samhita’s unretracted character assassination of the Duke Women’s Lacrosse Team’s defense of their falsely accused male counterparts.  Wendy McElroy did, though, and she’s “pissed the fuck off!” It appears that McElroy states that “even Feministing” has stopped characterizing the Duke debacle as the “Duke rape case,” and cites something from the comments, rather than

Word comes in that archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the settlement the builders of Stonehenge likely inhabited, and that it appears that large groups congregated there for ritual purposes.  It also appears that these groups were rather piggish about disposing of their party waste, which is viewed as a boon by the scientists.  No word about the relative affluence of banshees so far. Now that “big names including Leonardo

Jeff Harrell of “The Shape of Days” has posted two items about the nature of the internet and its implications for the future.  I think he may be on to something.  Thoughts?

Posted at Feministing: One of my greatest aspirations is to open up a “stud farm”. Mainly because, as far as I have seen, women have so much trouble actually getting what they want, sexually. Would it be a greater cause to create a society where all women could let their male lovers in on their actual desires without remorse? Ah… the impossible dream. Posted by: ikkin | January 30, 2007

Dear Quagmire Guy, A friend pointed out to me this article published today in The Sun, entitled 10 years to save the planet.  It begins like this: A NEW worldwide movement backed by celebrities, musicians, politicians and business leaders is aiming to reverse the effects of global warming over the next decade. Global Cool launched in London and LA today and is calling on one billion people to reduce their

I’m a few days late to this, I realize, but Hudson Institute Visiting scholar Nibras Kazimi, who last week wrote the widely linked and debated New York Sun piece, “Turnaround in Baghdad” (about which I posted here and here), asks just how CBS came to “obtain” Al Qaeda video of dead Iraqi soldiers: Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq released 8 minutes of cell phone footage through its media arm, the

…to John Hackathorn for the Murphy’s Romance and Tender Mercies DVDs—two films I’ve always meant to watch but for some reason never got around to doing so.  Looking quite forward to them.  Thanks to John, also, for the All-Clad Saucier Pan.  Quite a generous gift!—and one that will allow me to continue my experimentation with exotic sauces. For those of you interested in such things, my most successful sauce to

From yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News: Dylan Davis, now 36, remembers the rumors. His friends would tell him they believed his twin children were not his. They would tell him his wife had cheated on him while he was away on a ship doing his duty for the U.S. Navy around the time of the Gulf War. The couple had married in 1992. The twins, a boy and a girl, were