<![CDATA[Jezebel: Foreign]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Foreign]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/foreign http://jezebel.com/tag/foreign <![CDATA[Klein On Clinton: She's Alright, She's Okay]]> Here is one possibility: I'm just too dumb to know what writer Joe Klein's real point is in this week's Time cover story about Hillary Clinton. Here is another possibility: He's not so sure himself. Could go either way. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5397973&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Profile In Courage]]> Susan Travers may be the most amazing woman you've never heard of: an English socialite who became a Free French ambulance driver, she earned the Legion d'Honneur and become the only woman in the French Foreign Legion. [BBC] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5367019&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Dystopian Vision Of Our Foreign Policy Future]]> You might be forgiven if, upon watching this video of Sarah Palin meeting with and talking to heads of state, you think to yourself, "But, Sarah Palin has never address the United Nations!" Because we did. The video mashes up some actual audio of Palin discussing foreign policy and the religious case for "Drill, Baby, Drill" with footage of "Palin" discussing those things with heads of state, as she might be called to do as VP (or, God forbid, President). It might be the scariest thing you see all Halloween. Click on the picture at left to watch. [AdGabber] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5072366&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hard-Partying Women Choose Life Without Weens]]> Groups like sex-abstinence movement Silver Ring Thing may be marketing chastity, but since the group is endorsed by parents (and, you know, Jesus), it's not really making celibacy "cool." Enter The Prim and Proper Pussy Club (The PPPC). Based in the London borough of Hackney, this group of ladies say they could "give Amy Winehouse competition in the debauchery stakes," except that they are all celibate. The organization has nothing to do with religion. So why the hell would these girls voluntarily give up sex? In an interview with The Guardian, PPPC charter member "Miss Angeline" says:
No two girls in the club are here for the same reason—some girls were sexually abused, some prefer intimacy over sex, some think that abstinence is the new laid. For me, abstinence is part of a personal quest. It is the realisation that freedom in its purest form comprises of not being addicted to anyone, especially the male body. I gave up having sex and, though the first few months were torture, I am now as free as I can be in a capitalist world.
Whoa. So in this age of sex, sex, sex, is turning away from fucking the new punk? More »
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