Charles Darwin was one of the history’s greatest storytellers. Like any worthy author, he was a keen observer, and threaded together seemingly random experiences into a compelling tale that captured the imagination of his contemporaries and is perhaps one of the dominant narratives of our day. Even those who demonize evolution still believe […]

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George Carlin picks apart religious traditions & superstitions: “Suppose they hand you an upside down backward Chinese Braille bible with half the pages missing [for you to swear to tell the truth on]. At what point does all of this stuff just break down & become just a lot of stupid shit that somebody made […]

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Anyone notice, as PZMyers pointed out recently, that everything with the word “Family” in it is bad? Or at least a synonym for “traditional”. It drives me crazy because family is such a great concept: whether I’m talking about my family, that lives under my roof, and consists of my husband, two cats, and innumerable […]

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I visited my parents this weekend. Although he’s in a wheelchair whenever he leaves the house, he looks a lot better than the last time I saw him (after the diagnosis). Although that may be attributable to the fact that he’d just gotten off a plane.
After seeing him that time, I had a post that […]

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I just found out that, in Chicago every year, they turn the river green. What kinds of hideous chemicals cause this reaction?! Apparently, it starts out bright orange, which doesn’t make me feel better… *shudder*
Here’s to responsible drinking for everyone today, whether it’s green beer, green whiskey, or a regular-colored beer of choice. May it […]

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heh, didn’t originally mean race like that, but it works that way, too.
A recent book is out, called the New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America With Women’s Values. I’d like them to have a few quotation marks in that title (”…Change American With “Women’s Values”…”), but it certainly looks interesting. Feminist Law Professors […]

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So often recently there have been news reports of people who use the internet to stalk people. Here’s a story about how one girl used the internet to find her rapists and prove their guilt. It’s the story of a horrendous act, and a girl’s courage to confront her smug attackers. She’s not named (she […]

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Proving that Hollywood is not the hot-bed of liberalism that many people would like to think it is, here is one woman’s list of the most misogynistic movies of the 21st century.

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<whine>I have to apologize for going AWOL on y’all. I’m grateful to xJane for picking up my slack and challenging you with her wonderful posts.  Work is sucking up volumes of my time and energy; the little that’s left gets sprinkled inadequately onto family and school work. My efforts to reach my new […]

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Once a week I work out with a bunch of (250lb) men. Republican men. And most often, they treat me like one of the guys, which is how I like it. Occasionally, I have to remind them that “I won’t break”, but for the most part, they don’t often remember that I’m a woman. Recently, […]

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