Texas GOP: what part of "after midnight" do you not understand?

In the wake of Romney's loss, let me present the world's saddest duckface. (Also, one of the cupcakes has collapsed.)

Content warning: several of these are NSFW and they all have sexism in them. There's also some homophobia in the next-to-last one.

Professional porn actress Stoya has two posts on harassment at conventions and street harassment at her Twitter. Money quote (so to speak) from the first one: "Let me remind you that in a room of pornography fans, ( Read more... )

So, apparently a Maryland politican wrote a letter to the owner of the Ravens complaining about them . . . not yelling at one of their linebackers for speaking out in favor of marriage equality. On his official stationary as a legislator. This is tacky at best and an actual First Amendment issue at worst (I'm currently leaning towards "tacky in ( Read more... )

So the GOPers also put an anti-gay plank in the state platform, which surprises absolutely no one, I'm sure. It's that last sentence that weirds me out, though. It reads like they're saying that there shouldn't be any legal penalties for gay-bashing - not even assualt or murder charges. And I'm not sure whether that's just because no one ( Read more... )

So, my adopted state's GOP has put its foot well in its mouth yet again; they've taken a controversial anti-critical thought stance. Which, despite claiming it was a mistake, they apparently can't fix until 2014. Kind of like the Legislature in general, honestly.

Honestly, their stance against higher order thinking skills (which they did not ( Read more... )

MovieBob hits it out of the park twice in a row.

Wouldn't normally post to anything at FreeThoughtBlogs, but this post by Crommunist on "political [in]correctness" is the best summary of the issues involved I've yet read.

An apt link: The Bedamnitudes, or Curses from Galt's Gulch

So apparently the existence of two women in sufficiently high levels in the US government to be in the Situation Room is so threatening to some people that they 'Shopped them out. Sorry, not buying the "immodesty" bit - Clinton's suit in that photo is about as modest as you can get without a burqua.

Now, if she'd been dressed as Wonder Woman, ( Read more... )