Recovered from the Wayback Machine. President Bush has spoken out against gay marriages , a move applauded by religious conservatives in this country and elsewhere. Some would say that he’s doing so in order to keep the loyalty of the fundamentalists within the Republican party. I can’t help thinking that it’s also because he’s trying to redirect […]
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Girl-ick-ism
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley has two new posts on girlism, related to the release of Charlie’s Angels 2 and Legally Blonde 2, and both are wide of the mark. In the first she writes: In both movies, the younger women call on a network of their girlfriends to save the day. In both movies […]
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The authoritarians
Though I edited the post that led to the comment, I did want to promote what Joel said here to the forefront, because I think it’s worth being highlighted: A few people are so intense that they fail to think through processes. It may take years before a simple reform takes place because these power brokers don’t want to […]
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Marriage Bashing?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley was kind enough to link back to me and Liz yesterday after we referenced her README post. However, she added a follow-up note about her post that caused me to choke on my morning coffee: I guess I want to add that README is not about male-bashing, since I’m crazy for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ezra Pound has been under discussion lately, and not just in Loren’s analysis of Pound’s Cantos — his lifelong work. Jonathon also discussed Pound but from a different perspective. He wrote about the dilemma between Ezra Pound the poet, and Ezra Pound the anti-Semitic traitor. Specifically, the issue had to do with Pound being nominated […]