Who You Write For Is Who You Love

The brilliant fiction writer Claire Vaye Watkins has written an essay called “On Pandering,” a call to action against the stultifying effects of a literary system calibrated to the outsize, vulnerable egos of white men:
Carly Fiorina Also Doesn't Think You Should Have to Vaccinate Your Kids
Here is the “middle ground” on vaccines as it exists in America today: don’t vaccinate your kids if your Internet message board/life coach/talking dog sidekick advises against it, but a public school may bar you from enrolling. That’s the stance Carly Fiorina took when talking to a potential voter and mother of five…
The Candidates' Wives Regale American Voters With Stories of Chicken and Toiletries
Both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama are out in full force as Election Day looms, each woman working her hardest to convince our nation's stupidest voters that if you vote for a candidate because you like his wife better than the other candidate's wife, it's your right as an American to never have to tell anyone what a…
Pot Smoking Meghan McCain Unaware That America Finds Her Insufferable
When Senator John McCain was running for President in 2008, his twentysomething daughter Meghan seemed a welcome nontoxic breeze in an atmosphere poisoned by Palin hot air. She liked sex! She had gay friends! She had a cool iPod playlist! Now, she supports gay marriage and pot legalization and even smokes pot like a…
Conservatives Make up for that Whole 'War on Women' Business with Club Especially for Ladies
Conservatives are sorry, ladies. They're sorry about the whole "calling sexually active women on birth control sluts" thing. They're sorry about hesitating to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. They're sorry about passing all kinds of laws that make it much more difficult for pregnant women to choose…
Celebrate The Second Annual Abortion Recovery Month!
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has declared April as "Abortion Recovery Month." The occasion "encourages and promotes healing opportunities and raises awareness of the aftermath of abortion." (FYI, you can donate to Minnesota's Planned Parenthood here.) [Politico]
