The first SCOTUS conference of the session is today and both DOMA (multiple cases) and Prop 8 are on the docket, meaning the Court will (probably) decide whether to take one or the other up in the next term. The votes of four justices are required for a case to be heard by the Court. …
Category Archive: Politics
Sep 16 2012
Neiman Marcus attacks Women’s Shelter over name
Neiman Marcus apparently has a brand they’ve trademarked called “LAST CALL” through which they sell high-end clothes. Columbia, SC, has a charity resale store called “Revente’s Last Call“, which is essentially a Goodwill, that gives all of its procedes to the local Women’s Shelter. RLC was opened in 2010 to benefit The Women’s Shelter. We …
Sep 12 2012
I get e-mail: Mitt Romney is super likable
Sometimes I get e-mail that I have to share. Subj: FW: Why should we vote for Mitt Romney when he is such a despicable unlikeable guy? This is the man who should be President of theUnited States! A lot is being said in the media about Mitt Romney not being “likable” or that he doesn’t “relate …
Aug 19 2012
Todd Akin and how the Christian Right’s delusion of an all-powerful God hurts people
I am about as far from the Christian Right as you can get, religiously and politically, and it’s not always apparent how closely that religious fervor is related to what I think of as the most cruel and stupid of the beliefs that the right-wing clings to. Todd Akin, current representative and Senate nominee, said …
Jul 26 2012
Bloggers defeat Nikki Haley and The State Newspaper
Today, having dropped the ball massively by spiking the story initially, The State finally released the story about Nikki Haley’s daughter being given a job under her mother’s control. I cannot take full credit for this, not with Will Folks and Logan Smith doing admirable jobs covering the story as well, and not with people on …
Jul 25 2012
Chick-fil-A pretends to be a girl for PR reasons, is caught
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. H/t to George Takei for posting it. Chick-fil-A has been horrific to gay people for a long time, I am glad that they’ve finally been outspoken enough about it to cause everyday people to start protesting. The story is this: the founder’s son/COO said …
Jul 25 2012
Alexander Hamilton: Badass
I didn’t know all of this about Alexander Hamilton, this is incredible. Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009. Accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Lyrics: How does a bastard, orphan, son …
Jul 24 2012
The importance of sexual identification in AIDS rates
Gregory in Seattle left the following comment on my AIDS post yesterday and I thought it was worth reposting in its own right. You might find this of interest: an interactive map giving the HIV infection rates in the US by county, per 100,000 population. According to the CDC, about 25% of Americans, aged 13 …
Jul 23 2012
Nikki Haley censors The State Newspaper
Nikki Haley got her 14-year-old daughter a job working for the state — a thirty hour a week job that is paid for with taxpayer money. The State Newspaper and Charlotte Observer reported this online and the governor’s office immediately made them take the story down. Did you know that the governor could do that? …
Jul 22 2012
Gun Law Arguments/Tweet of the Day
This is Wonka meme has been going around my Facebook. I guess I’ve got a lot of FB friends who are idiots. “Also, if you could please tell me more about why we have laws against rape, assault, murder… Actually, if you could explain the whole concept of laws to me, that might help. Because …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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