Look, people. I'll return to my series of Colorado Tales soon enough. But right now I just have to address the ridiculousness that is this article.

I mean, WTF?! I have at least three points to make about this:

1) An entire article about Senator Clinton's cleavage? In a prominent national newspaper? Give me a break ( Read more... )

1) I spent most of yesterday sprawled out on the couch, thinking I was coming down with the flu. It felt like I had gotten run over by a truck. But today I feel fine. A bit of post-Colorado jet lag / hiking exhaustion, I suppose. Or maybe that's just how you feel after saving someone's life. Speaking of which:

That's us on the Lower Poudre River ( Read more... )

I bitched vaguely about the Supreme Court recently. In that particular post, I was angry about the recent decision on desegregation. The court ruled that "public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures that take explicit account of a student’s race", proving that the damage done to the U.S. by the Bush ( Read more... )

Michelle Obama, that is. She's in the news for gracefully quitting her $215,000-a-year dream job as vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals in order to serve her hubby's historic White House run.

In a right-on article for Salon.com, Debra Dickerson expresses outrage and sadness at Obama's decision ( Read more... )

Let's remember the man accurately, shall we? Here are my top 3 favorite JF quotes ( Read more... )

What on earth is wrong with Ann Coulter?

Just try to follow the logic:
"'Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," Coulter said on "Hannity and Colmes" Monday night. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."

Oh, I see. We're the ( Read more... )

Just what can Hilary Clinton learn, if anything, from Katie Couric?

Rebecca Dana tackles this question in a recent article from Slate that answers: well, plenty.

Couric and Clinton: Two Bottle-Blond Broads Battling the Big Guys.
It's an interesting question to ponder, even though Clinton and Couric's job descriptions seem so different. As the ( Read more... )

1. Go Hillary!: Don't let the doubters who are lining up, rubbing their hands together, stop you. (What an exciting primary season! Finally, we've got some racial and gender diversity goin' on. I really, really like Barack Obama, and think he has a bright future, but I'll vote for Hillary because she has more experience. Maybe she'll make Obama her ( Read more... )

This might be the most annoying shift in anti-choice rhetoric since the whole linguistic invention of "partial-birth abortion."

In the Jan. 21 New York Times Magazine--which is not out yet; this summary is from Slate--is an article titled "Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome ( Read more... )

For (probably) the first time in U.S. history, more women are living without a spouse than with one, says this article in the New York Times (complete with picture of 30-something spinster with her cat ( Read more... )