Although Elizabeth Edwards is also teh awesome. However, she [Obama] has become the latest target in the media as an “agressive, outspoken, forceful” woman. Her rise to this prominence after Clinton’s exodus from the misogynist spotlight can be taken to be indicative of the fact that one of the major draws [for the media] of […]

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(overheard between a drunken John & a drunken xJane at last night’s Abney Park concert)
Background: Yesterday, xJane was sitting around, slightly ill, and generally feeling sorry for herself. Whilst innocently watching Emmy consideration DVDs, she received a call from John, who asked if she was busy (she was not) and if she was interested in […]

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Extra extra, read all about it.
So…NARAL just came out in support of Obama, who is *gasp* a man, for those of you who weren’t sure. I don’t know about all you vaginas (since it’s obviously what we think with) out there, but I had always thought that he had a stronger pro-choice position than Hillary. […]

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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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It’s that time of year again: time for me to co-opt John’s blog & flood it with links (hopefully) from feminists. Welcome, feminists!
This year’s topic, and I’m really glad they give us topics, is Why It’s Important to Vote Pro-Choice.
My response is that the personal is the political. It’s a tired feminist line but one […]

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I don’t really feel that I’ve been pulling my feminist weight around here recently (and that big long post about American Gladiators really rose from my husband’s comment; I expanded it because I wasn’t certain all our dear readers knew what AG was). And that really also means I’ve not been pulling my blogging weight […]

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You can gorge yourself on a smorgasbord of skeptical delights today!  Two blogging carnivals were posted yesterday:
Humanist Symposium #13 - Cheesy Holiday Card Edition
The 82nd Edition of the Carnival of the Godless
I submitted Mind on Fire posts to each, and plan to participate in them from here on out.  In fact, Mind on Fire will […]

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John and I come at blogging from slightly different angles & have been trying out which works best for the site (and the benefit of you, dear readers). Long ago, he told me to stop using the categories as if they were tags and linked me to some very helpful sites about tagging & such. […]

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The relationship between technology and religion fascinates me.  Here, a college ministry director for a Presbyterian Church in L.A. writes about the opportunities and challenges of youth ministry in a Facebook age:
Who hasn’t gone online and seen one of their student’s provocative profiles? This is a devastating blow to any youth worker, and a look […]

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It’s that time of year again: the time of year that I studiously avoid my sewing desk like the plaque (xJane discovers “strike through”) plague. Last year I managed to avoid it so (sew?) studiously that my mother’s xmas gift was completed in the car on the way from LA to SEA. That was unfortunate.
I’ve […]

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