Noah Berlatsky, Why am I a male feminist? But I’m also a feminist for selfish reasons. I’m the primary caretaker for our son — I stay home with him when he’s sick (there he is on the futon right now, actually, watching Doctor Who with the cat sacked out beside him). I deal with school events and playdates; I schlep him to all his activities. There was a time not
August 9, 2013
Freelance writer and stay-at-home-dad genuflects at Left-feminism, gets published at XX-Slate [Darleen Click]
August 9, 2013
Who’s on the run? [Darleen Click]
Lahore, Pakistan The State Department has evacuated most of its diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan in response to terrorist threats against the U.S. consulate, according to senior officials. ‘We have picked up what we regard as a threat worthy of taking this action,’ a senior U.S. official told CNN. All diplomats were ordered to evacuate Thursday except for a few emergency personnel. The diplomats were reportedly moved to Islamabad. Heck of
August 8, 2013
The ultimate movie trailer [Darleen Click]
Thursday night palate cleanser … ETERNA from Behind The Epic on Vimeo. h/t David Thompson
August 8, 2013
NSA: You know it has to be really, really bad … [Darleen Click]
… to have the New York Times dragged kicking and screaming to run an article on A1 about NSA gathering the CONTENTS of emails and text messages: The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those
August 8, 2013
Let’s play, “gauge the mood at protein wisdom”!
Your clue comes in the form of a limerick. First to correctly assess the mood wins. The prize being the satisfaction of having won. Ready? Here we go. There once was a man from Nantucket Whose face was so long he could tuck it down into his Levis — or with socks, maybe knee highs — Either way, you know what? Fuck Obama.
August 7, 2013
Obama’s been taking pointers on geography from Biden [Darleen Click]
Geography is hard! via Nobama
August 7, 2013
Cleaning up: some quick links
Stuff I missed while tending to a sick little boy with fever spikes over 106: 1) Valerie Jarrett, CiC! So, what are Senate Republicans going to do with this info? Well, I can’t speak for all of them, but John McCain and Princess Lindsey are over in Egypt attempting to get the military to release the erstwhile terrorist regime ousted in a public uprising. Which is exactly the position our
August 7, 2013
“Will Obama invoke executive privilege on the IRS documents?”
I suppose Robert Romano asks a good question. Though I think the better question would be, “Once Obama invokes executive privilege on the IRS documents, will the GOP do more than put on a pubic show of outrage?” My answer, as I’ve stated before, is no. I believe this to be all theater. And I think that because I believe any serious independent investigation into the IRS matter will show
August 7, 2013
“Castle Rock apartment tenants told they must get rid of their guns”
As a follow up to my last post — and I don’t believe this to be Colorado-centric, but rather merely illustrative of what may be tried in other parts of the country — comes the story of renters being informed that, in order to maintain their 2nd Amendment protections, they must disarm or else lose their homes. This is the next step in the campaign to disarm us. One can
August 7, 2013
Ruling class entitlement goes local: call it “Boss Hogg Syndrome”… [updated]
…if only because it will allow those of you so inclined to mitigate your outrage by recalling Daisy Duke and her micro-Levi cutoffs. Still, even as Colorado Democrat lawmakers — and it’s “centrist” Governor, all of whom it turns out are bought and paid for my a New York Mayor, representing his interests above the interests of the people of Colorado — voted down party lines (with one rural Democrat’s