Terrorism works.

It has been a week and a few days since Dr. Tiller was murdered. In that time, the anti-choice freakshow has barely restrained itself from saying outright that they are glad Dr. Tiller is dead. (You can bleat all you want about "abhoring violence" but your violent and provocative bullshit says otherwise.) Even so, you had that guy ( Read more... )

Warning: feminist approach to the news ahead!

I've been meaning to mention this story about Oprah since I got my Newsweek on Monday. It's a great read, and a scary one, about the particular problem of fame that Oprah faces and, alas, more often than not, abuses. When one has a bully pulpit like a talk show in addition to having billions of dollars ( Read more... )

Let's start with a simple premise: it is not okay, regardless of one's particular skill/knowledge set, to humiliate a non-beligerant stranger in public. If someone is not doing anything that hurts you or incites others to hurt you, you cannot, morally or legally, start harrassing that person so that they should be made to feel ashamed for whatever ( Read more... )

I found out on Sunday about George Tiller's murder, and I really just deflated. ( There is no way God forgives this. )

It's official: Obama nominates Sotomayor for SCOTUS Reading the brief comments she makes about her life in that article is still plenty enough to make me choke up on sobs. She sounds like an amazing woman. I hope she can be all that she is reputed to be ( Read more... )

Aside from May Movie talk and info-dumps (and one screaming declaration of my own awesomeness), I've been rather quiet on LJ lately. My apologies. Here, have some news that I've been collecting in the interim:

There will be a Deadpool movie!
Thanks to mithras03 for the heads-up on that. I'm glad to see that even the comic writers behind the character admit ( Read more... )

Because they make my points waaaay better than I do.

From "The Passion of Mr. Gaeta": (Spoilers at the link for the end of Battlestar Galactica!)
Popular media has consented to allowing queer characters to exist, but only if their sexuality never has to be seen as equivalent to the hetero characters' relationships. If we are quiet and closeted, in ( Read more... )

Why does it take the judge being corrupt to make this not okay?

The kids are all right. Until a bunch of self-righteous pricks overcriminalize them. Then we create problems that we didn't have before.

Listen to some of the audio from the victims. The last two are especially frightening. These were two kids who hadn't done anything wrong at all, ( Read more... )

Or, how not to keep a law you don't like from getting passed:

Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.
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“We believe this bill is designed ( Read more... )

Abolish the death penalty as a cost-cutting measure?It's something anti-death-penalty folks have talked about for years--how much money we could save if we didn't have the death penalty. (The figures are in that article, in brief.) It's hard to convince people of that--someone being alive for 20-30-40 years in prison costing less than a few years ( Read more... )