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news roundup
Everything In The News Will Piss You Off Today, Puppies And Presidents Edition
- The Bushes spent about $3.7 million dollars on real estate in a pricey Dallas neighborhood, and boy, are you going to seethe with jealousy when you see the house the Presidency can buy you. [Washington Post, The Smoking Gun]
- Italy is struggling with a rise in puppy smuggling due to a love of specific breeds and a declining economy. More than 70,000 puppies are smuggled into Italy every year, despite the fact that nearly a quarter of them die on the way and half die within a few months of arrival. There's a video. [BBC]
- Pastor Rick Warren says the Bible calls us to invade Iran. I don't think it says what he thinks it says, but that might be because I read it for my own edification and not to use it to make zillions of dollars or justify my existence. [Washington Independent]
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Everything old is new again
Men's Mid-Life Crises Now The Fault Of Feminism
A generation ago, when a man "suddenly" woke up to a pot belly, a passel of kids, a life of responsibility and a few gray hairs, he freaked out, bought a penis-replacement vehicle, fucked his secretary and got hair plugs and flashy clothes. According to Details' Simon Dumenco, however, the mid-life angst of the modern male is the fault of females expecting men to spend their 20s and 30s stifling their urges to be douchebags. More » -
All animals are not created equal
Playing Hard To Get Is For The Birds
Researchers at the University of Bristol have done an exhaustive study of the way birds mate and came to the conclusion that when there were a variety of male birds looking to mate, the females would hold off on mating to apparently determine which male bird was willing to stick around long enough to stick it in*, calculating at a basic level that he'd then stick by her and their offspring. Naturally, this ground-breaking research is completely applicable to human dating, or so they're trying to tell us. More » -
Roe vs. world
Abortion (Research) Will Be The Death Of Us
With another day comes yet another study of the effects of abortion on women. The newest study by researchers at Johns Hopkins shows that what little hard scientific research exists on how women feel after an abortion indicates that women who have abortions don't tend to have more emotional problems than ones that don't. This is, of course, the opposite of the New Zealand study that came out this week. To help dispel any remaining confusion, we've put all the things abortion might or might not do to you are after the jump. But, so that you can play along, it's your job to separate the God's honest truth accepted by every scientist, pro-choice activist and anti-abortion advocate from the drivel. More » -
Being Cervix-y
In a world where most women have, at best, a passing tactile familiarity with their cervices, let alone anyone else's, and pelvic exams are painful and rarely enlightening for the women undergoing them, there's now a voice (and a camera) crying out for you to get better acquainted with your body. At the website My Beautiful Cervix, a doula in her mid-twenties — with the help of her boyfriend — documented the changes in her cervix, body temperature and vaginal fluids throughout her cycle. Yours is probably relatively similar, so go have a look at what you look like! [My Beautiful Cervix]
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Crappy hour
Governor's Ball: Ed Rendell Is A Sexist Jerk; David Paterson Isn't
Some days there's news to be had, and some days all you can do is shake your head when a governor like Ed Rendell stereotypes working moms and single women all in a breath. Luckily, there are governors like David Paterson, who is really pissed about sexism in the legal profession (and in the New York State court system). And there are friends like Latoya Peterson of Racialicious who go interview kick-ass women about terrorism, public health and Star Wars so that we can tie it all together on one neat little progressive package of knowledge. More » -
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News roundup
It's Going To Be An Oprah-guration!
- Oprah Winfrey is talking her show on the road to D.C. during the Inauguration. Let the speculation begin about which members of the new Administration will be appearing. [Access Hollywood]
- Congress is going to pass a law to reduce the salary of the Secretary of State to block Republican efforts to keep Hillary Clinton from serving on Constitutional grounds. So much for pay equity in an Obama Administration. [Talking Points Memo]
- Al Franken says he's pulled ahead of Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race. [Politico]
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Girls On Film
More Women In Porn Making Waves Behind The Camera
While Hugh Hefner's daughter Christie (seen at left) may be one of the more famous women in porn who's never actually been in porn, there are actually plenty of women cashing in on the industry. MSNBC's Brian Alexander talked to more than a few of them about what it's like to make your money in an industry that many people consider less-than-mainstream — and far from than feminist. More » -
Splatter guard required
The Cookbook For Men Who Get Way Too Excited About Cooking
Fresh on the heels of our testicle festival feast, comes news of yet another horrifying cookbook, Natural Harvest — A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes. From jizzed-upon oysters to splooge-tinged drinks — and a tip for making one's own (rather small) semen omelete — author Paul "Fotie" Pfotenhauer totally goes there. More » -
Insane in the membrane
Virginity Is Less A Piece Of Skin, More A State Of Being
Nurse Carol Roye has an interesting counterpoint in Women's eNews to news reports about hymen reconstruction (something some of us would never, ever sign up for). Given how little most people know of what a hymen "ought" to look like — as though there's only one way for it to look, which there isn't — what exactly are these doctors reconstructing? More » -
Kiwi columnist Garth George thinks that you should be ashamed of yourself for what your political views on reproductive choice forced a man to do to this woman. Via Feministing, George believes that violence against women is karmic retribution for the scourge of abortion, as well as a not-unreasonable response by men who "feel their maleness is under threat" by women's strides toward equality in society. If we just stopped trying to be more than barefoot and pregnant, men would totally stop beating us. [Feministing, New Zealand Herald]
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crappy hour
Clinton Wants A Job And McCain Wants To Keep His Bromances Alive
With the election over, the terrorist attacks in India in the rearview mirror (at the moment) and appointment speculation slowing, the news is, as Latoya Peterson of Racialicious says, "weird" today. So it's all about what Bill Clinton wants to do for Obama, John McCain's buddy trip, Saxby Chambliss's win, Jeb Bush's potential run and, of course, Super Obama World. More » -
News roundup
Caroline May Be The Only One Who Doesn't Want Hillary's Senate Seat
- The race for who will ultimately lose to New York Governor David Paterson's desire to appoint state Attorney General Andrew "Shucking And Jiving Is Not A Racist Phrase" Cuomo to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is on! Bill Clinton, Nita Lowey and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are out, Caroline Kennedy might be in. [CNN, The Hill, New York Times, The New Republic]
- Senator Lisa Murkowski told Governor Sarah Palin not to even think about the 2010 primary, but plans to kick her designer-clad ass if she does. [Politico]
- Governor Bill McGrabbyhand Richardson will be your next Secretary of Commerce. [Washington Post]
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Jennifer Hollett of Current TV's Collective Journalism project reports on a group in Sierra Leone — where nearly 90-95 percent of all women are subject to female genital mutilation — called the Amazonian Initiative Movement, which is working to end the practice of FGM. In addition to educating women about the risks, AIM has started a program offering literacy skills and help starting new businesses to FGM practitioners, who often rely on performing FGM on other women to pay their own bills. Their hope is that, by eliminating the financial incentive to continue the practice, they can eliminate its spread. The full video can be seen by clicking on the image above left. [Current TV]
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The ex list
Insulting Your Ex: It's All About You
Very few people wonder these days why J.P. Weichel and his ex-wife are divorced, ever since Weichel was charged with criminal libel for posts he put on Craigslist accusing his ex of sleeping with her divorce lawyer and beating their child. In fact, sometimes, talking shit about your ex says a lot more about you (and your maturity level) than it does about whatever he or she did to you. More » -
Bitchin'
Naomi Klein Prefers Complaining To Changing
This week's issue of The New Yorker contains a long profile of activist and author Naomi Klein by Larissa MacFarquhar that goes all the way back to her grandparents' Communist organizing roots in order to prove... something. But between anecdotes of her parents running away to Canada and trips to their summer home, what comes across is that Klein — like many liberal activists — comes from a background of privilege that allows her to advocate a kind of anarchy from the comforts of a home she's unlikely to even lose in foreclosure. More » -
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while speaking last night at a forum on gender and politics, was asked whether Hillary Clinton might face sexism in her role as Secretary of State. Pelosi said that, in her experiences abroad, she has never been received with anything but respect, adding, "[Clinton] is a force in her own right and anybody that might have that thought that you mildly suggested does so at his peril." [Huffington Post]
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crappy hour
The Next Terror Attacks Will Not Be Televised
There's nothing like a good political discussion between two friends that rides quickly off the rails, which is basically what happened this morning with Latoya Peterson of Racialicious and me, when we fully planned to talk about the next terror attacks on the United States and then drifted into farm subsidies, foreign aid, violence in the media, Malawi and Mexico and didn't manage to even work in a single reference to Madonna because we were so focused on corn. Mmmmm. Corn! More » -
News roundup
The Economy Sucks, Condi Has No Advice And Saxby Chambliss Is A Perv
- Now that it's been a full year of shitty economic news, we are officially in a recession and have been for a year. Aren't you glad to know? [MSNBC]
- The market is not glad to know, and it slid almost 700 points after learning the obvious. [NY Times]
- In other obvious news, Condoleezza Rice doesn't plan to give much advice to Hillary Clinton. What advice she does give, we're guessing Clinton doesn't plan on following. [MSNBC]
- Bill Clinton is pretty happy about Hillary's nomination, though. [Real Clear Politics]
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