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If We're All Going to Die Anyway...

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6:00 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Megan Carpentier
3,303 views, 67 comments

Latest by n/a: I just grow my own tomatoes. I presently have 8 plants growing in my garden right now and I am trying to decide if I want to get a few more. more »

crappy hour

Paging Jeremiah Wright: There's A White Guy Stealing Your Show!!!

And in the end, it was a white Catholic guy who drove Barack Obama to quit his radical, black Muslim separatist Church of Latter-Day Erstwhile Standup Comedians. Anyway, meet Father Michael Pfleger. He doesn't even preach at Trinity Church, he's just a regular on their "You Can't Do That On The Vatican" open mic nights, and dude. Here's the clip of Father mocking Hillary's sense of white entitlement climaxing with a showy display of a handkerchief and a plaintive wail of: "THERE'S A BLACK GUY STEALING MY SHOWWW." Now, a lot of you are going to be offended by Pfleger, and I would be too, if I hadn't watched it directly after checking out his fellow YouTube sensation and Hillary-turned-McCain supporter Harriet Christian whoa-viating about Obama being an "inadequate black male." Anyway, the Christian-Catholic showdown continues after the jump, where I Nexis Pfleger to learn about of his white-hating ways and briefly digress on Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Tatum O'Neal, Geraldine, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and more, with Megan after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Moe
4,444 views, 342 comments

Latest by n/a: @lawschoolmakesmecrazy: Oh no, there are definately people like that here at Jezebel. As a white woman, I've been actively trying to understand my own privilege. I think that people here on Jezebel sometimes come down hard on Moe more »

crappy hour

Sometimes, Ignorance Is Bliss

Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links and, frankly, I'm just a little sick of talking about the primaries. So the Windy's Attackerman and I, in all my morning Glamocratic splendor, take on things we probably should've ignored, like the primaries, Russian goosestepping, Spencer's favorite strip club in all of Canada and Arianna Huffington's secrets about John McCain. More »

10:00 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,831 views, 156 comments

Latest by bria: @LinaLamont: [en.wikipedia.org] Folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons: 1. the late appearance of the explanation means that it has no tradition, only the value of its content; 2. the facts described do not fit especially well at more »

i thee dread

Divorce Via Chanting? Not In Maryland!

The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled this week that the Islamic practice of talaq violates a woman's right to due process in the state. Talaq is the practice (and in Pakistan, the law) that allows men to divorce their wives by saying "I divorce thee" three times. Maryland resident Irfan Aleem had moved to the D.C. area in 1985 with his wife, Farah, to work for the World Bank and raise a family. When she filed for divorce in Maryland in 2003, he one-upped her by heading to the Pakistani embassy and performing talaq, thereby divorcing her under Pakistani law, under which she had signed a marriage contract agreeing to a $2,500 divorce settlement in 1980 when she was 18. Since his divorce, he moved back to Pakistan and has been denying his wife financial support. The Maryland court said: More »

6:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By mcarpentier
5,613 views, 54 comments

Latest by n/a: @J.D.Regent: Maybe it's working for an evil organization that makes them lose their way? Also, regarding the repetition of "I divorce thee", isn't that also how one can request a divorce acording to the Torah or rabbinical law? I could be more »

crappy hour

And The $300 Million Defense Contract Goes To...The 22-Year-Old Abusive Boyfriend Who Never Had A Job!

Do you ever wonder, where do the weapons our Pentagon is buying to supply the Afghan counterinsurgency actually come from? Well, duh, China, but, let's start over. Meet Efraim Diveroli. He has some sort of $300 million Pentagon contract to supply ammunition to the government. He also has: never had a real job, a drinking problem, a woman with a restraining order against him, a beautiful headquarters in the heart of Miami Beach, a 25-year-old VP whose only certification in anything is that he is a licensed masseur, and wiretaps of him talking about bribing the Albanian defense department by sending him whores. And all of this makes sense because Efraim Diveroli is 22 YEARS OLD. Yeah, we talked about our allies in Pakistan and John McCain, Chelsea Clinton and that douchebag who asked her about Monica, polling data, where that Bosnia story really came from, Donald Trump, corporate profits and our hangovers — oh and don't miss the riveting discussion of our Facebook horoscopes and Diddy and Tupac— but shit gets really epic when Glamocracy's Megan and I get down to...which under-25 year old Israeli mob arms dealer we'd rather get down with! Jump. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Moe
13,076 views, 151 comments

Latest by That_little_attention_whore: @thefrontpage: LOL @ Mr. Magorium's Magic Emporium. Seriously tho - love Natalie's hair in that movie. Thinking of getting mine cut like that. (Now it's a bit more Posh Spice. Yeah, that's right, I have a Posh Spice hair cut and more »

crappy hour

Well Shit, Michelle, Surely You Can Think Of Something...

Michelle Obama's confession that she hadn't really been proud of her country in the past twenty five years or so before they started uniting behind her stinky snore-y husband made me think this morning: when was the last time I felt proud of this place? Well duh, I thought: no one ever thinks they love FREEDOM until they try to hang out in some of those other places we pointed missiles during the Cold War! (Oh yeah, and Castro resigned!) And that reminded me of this part in the Audacity of Hope where Michelle comes back from Kenya and she says to Barack: "Man, I never realized how much I actually don't hate America!" (Condi can sooooo relate!) And then you get back home and Hillary Clinton's campaign is trying to steal your husband's pledged delegates and you're like, "Ha ha ha, just kidding; democracy is a myth fuck you." Patriotism, Pakistan and (UGH) plagiarism with me and Megan after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Moe
8,127 views, 284 comments

Latest by Ssscorpion: Barry: "I have a dream' - just words? 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' - just words? Don't tell me words don't matter." Michelle: ""For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am more »

news roundup

Michelle Obama Hates America

  • For the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is really proud of her country. Drudge has this quote up in an XXL font on his site and it has replaced much of his plagiarism coverage, so I assume this means she is going to get lots of shit from all the good Americans who were so moved after 9/11 when the country came together to start shopping again... [Breitbart]
  • Barack Obama borrowed a line from some other black guy's speech borrowing a bunch of lines from famous speeches and suddenly the Hillary campaign would have you believe he is the Dane Cook of inspiring people! [Politico]
  • But the campaign doesn't think it would be a big deal if Hillary had "plagiarized" the same way because "she's not running on the strength of her rhetoric." [ABC News]
  • Barack Obama's brother-in-law Konrad Ng is hot. [Honolulu Advertiser]
  • Women have the right to vote in the Pakistan, but like in a Jim Crow sorta way. [NYT]
  • Ok, I get it, steroids bad. But the kid's name is Pettitte. [NYT]
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5:40 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Moe
4,927 views, 53 comments

Latest by Moe: @BadenBaden: This is a day late and a dollar short, but this is just so demonstrably wrong the fucking Clinton campaign went out and admitted it preemptively. more »

snap judgment

Jemima And Imran Khan, Reunited And It Feels So...Bittersweet

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arranged scarriage

Arranged Marriages Not Always Great Arrangements

Two stories came out in today's Evening Standard of London that involved abuse within arranged marriages. The first involves 19-year-old Sabia Rani, who was murdered by her new husband Shazad Khan, 25, last year (both are shown in this picture). The trial against Khan is currently underway, and the brutality with which he killed Rani is nothing short of horrifying. The hard kicks, stamps, and strong punches inflicted on Rani created, in the opinion of a pathologist, "injuries similar in severity to those suffered by someone in a serious road accident." Khan's mother, two of Khan's sisters and one of their husbands are also being blamed for failing to help Rani, who was not allowed out of her home in Leeds without a member of her husband's family. Born in Pakistan, Rani had only been in England for five months at the time of her death. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By Jessica
5,644 views, 84 comments

Latest by n/a: @Dogtanian: Don't you mean iA/isA? ;) more »

the week that was

Benazir Bhutto Died (And Other Depressing, End-Of-December Events)

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5:00 PM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By Jessica
1,330 views, 30 comments

Latest by bowleserised: Also, here's the dude with the gun: [timesonline.co.uk] And yeah! Let's let a 19 year old run one of the world's largest "democracies"! Cool! Jesus... It sorts reminds me of all the Baptist college grads that the Bush government put in charge of more »

crappy hour

Musharraf On Bhutto: "I May Be A Dictator, But She Was Like An African Dictator..."

So, remember how Benazir Bhutto came back and was all, "I just came back because I feel I need to be in Pakistan"? Well what really happened is she gave the US ambassador to Pakistan a ride on her plane out of Aspen over the summer, and he pitched the idea to her because they were old pals. Then they went to the State Department and convinced the Deputy Secretary of State to go hang out with Musharraf for a few days and try to sell him the idea. "He basically delivered a message to Musharraf that we would stand by him, but he needed a democratic facade on the government, and we thought Benazir was the right choice for that face," explains former intelligence official Bruce Riedel in a story in today's Washington Post. And Musharraf was like, "Seriously? That woman? Didn't I write in my own memoir last year how much I hated that bitch?" After the jump Megan and I explain, because we are so eminently qualified to do that after reading the morning papers, what's next for Uncle Pervy and his country. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By Moe
5,078 views, 73 comments

Latest by n/a: I bet Musharaff was the one who planned Banazir Bhotto's assisination. He considers himself a 'Pakistani Mafia' and he IS a 'DICK'TATOR' who was worried that a woman would win over him and that as too much for him to more »

snap judgment

Benazir Bhutto Adjusts Scarf In Front Of Own Likeness

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I shot a woman in the Punjab, just to watch her die. Zilla Huma Usman was a rarity in Pakistan. She was a female government minister and outspoken women's rights activist. Now she isn't any more. Find out why, after the jump.

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