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Technically, I should support PETA. After all, I am a vegetarian who thinks fur is gross, buys organic milk and free-range eggs, and checks everything I buy to see if it was tested on animals (for real. My shampoo, my dish soap, the stuff I clean the tub with, it is all cruelty-free). And yet, despite all that, I detest PETA. It's not that they ( Read more... )

The website The Rebelution (a teenage rebellion against low expectations!) is having a modesty survey. It is a series of questions submitted by girls about what clothing is or is not modest, that the boys can then vote on. Most of the questions have links attached to them, so you can see just what sort of whorish clothing is under discussion ( Read more... )

Two interesting and connected stories:

Atheists challenge religious right and an interview with Chris Hedges about his new book, American Fascists, which talks about the religious right ( Read more... )

anik and I decided over lunch today to create a new religion. We haven't worked out any of the tenets yet, save that it will involve sparkles and ponies. And the symbol of our faith shall be a pegacorn, with rainbow mane, pink wings and a gold horn. And it shall be sparkly, yea. The one possible problem is that our religion is likely to attract ( Read more... )