Rape. It’s been in the news a lot lately as the Republicans are trying to redefine it to chip away at abortion laws. It’s also in the news because Lara Logan, a journalist from CBS, was separated from her crew in Cairo and endured a sustained sexual assault. My fellow blogger over at ABL’s… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Politics
I’m Just a Girl
OK. I got thoughts about feminism, being a woman, being girly, and related things, and I need to share them. They are pretty jumbled at this point, so bear with me as I untangle the threads. It started yesterday as I was sitting in my therapist’s room waiting for my appointment. I will get to… Continue Reading
Yes, We Did
–The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. MLK Jr. So, the Healthcare Reform Bill passed the House tonight. I have to be honest in that I had my doubts it would actually pass. I had a friend who told me right after the Senate passed their version that it… Continue Reading
I Don’t Pay Her Enough
I have been seeing my therapist for eleven-billionty years. For the first few years, I talked about mostly-superficial things. Let me back up. I started seeing my current therapist the last time I decided to lose weight as I was well-aware of how fucked-up I am about my body, food, and weight loss in general…. Continue Reading
Fuck You, World
I am thisclose to shutting down my blog and walking away. Why? Two political reasons and a host of personal ones. As my faithful readers know, I read Balloon Juice on a daily basis. There is a schism developing there that is pretty much par the course for the Democratic Party, and things really started… Continue Reading
Melancholy Expressed
I have been wrapped in melancholy today. It’s not the weather because I enjoy cool, rainy, drizzly days. In fact, they warm my soul, as contradictory as that sounds. It’s partly political. I have been avoiding the story about the woman who worked for Halliburton/KBR and was gang-raped by her coworkers while they were… Continue Reading
9/11, Eight Years Later
Where were you eight years ago (and one day) when the Towers fell? For my generation, it has replaced, “Where were you when the Challenger exploded?” as the defining question of our lives (at least until we elected Barack Hussein Obama as president). Where was I? I was in California, the Bay Area to be… Continue Reading
Don’t Rest Just Yet, Senator Kennedy
We lost a good man today. Well, yesterday, but I woke up to the news today. Senator Ted Kennedy, the last of the fabled Kennedy boys, has left this world. He has been in serious decline for the last year or so, so I can’t say it was a shock to wake up to the… Continue Reading
Hey, GOP! Shut. The. Fuck. Up!
I am blogging tipsy again, and I have reached my limit with the sheer stupidity that is the GOP party right now (as well as the asswipes from the so-called liberal media who are nothing but a bunch of apologetic whores for the right). The birthers, the deathers (or, as Keith Olbermann calls them, the… Continue Reading
I am a Proud Progressive, Part II
When we left your intrepid blogger, I was waxing poetic about sex. What? I was talking about god? Little matter. My blog, my spin. Anyway, we were talking about words and how much I adore them. They intoxicate me and fill me with a swooning glee. I savor the taste of a new word as… Continue Reading