One of the things that bothers me most in reportage about political bloggers and commentators is the tendency to forget that just as there is a difference in extremism, there is also a difference in type when people have opinions and suggest courses of action. The extremism equilibrium issue is a bad one, but it is also one that is easy to point ( Read more... )

I assume most of the Supernatural fangirls I know have heard something about an upcoming episode where Sam and Dean go to( not really a spoiler, but just in case )

A great article for those not already steeped in feminist blogs such that they are familiar with the Nice GuyTM stereotype. It's in regards to the man who shot up three women in Pennsylvania, but it applies to more men than most of the men reading this would even feel comfortable knowing about.

The most cuttingly observant part:
Telling a guy the ( Read more... )

Entertainment Weekly had an article titled "Horror Movies...and the women who love them!" last week. The notion that women like horror is not really a surprise to me, but then again, I self-select for friends who enjoy things that I enjoy, thus do a lot of my girl friends like horror. Just as many don't. However, the proportions of like to dislike ( Read more... )

A great review of the life and trials (literally, alas) of Dr. George Tiller.

I take heart at this bit:
Protesters counted cars entering the clinic gate, and they tracked “saves” - patients who changed their minds. According to Mr. Gietzen’s data, over the last five years they had 395 “saves” for an “overall save rate” of 3.77 percent.It just ( Read more... )

This is even less coherent. I...didn't think that was possible.

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Did she even say why she was resigning in there? I heard a lot of catchphrases. It's like one of those parodies of business executives, where they toss out words like "synergistic" and "revitalization" without connecting the themes to real English. Only, she's a real person, saying ( Read more... )

Why won't he shut up already?

There is no good way to tell the public at large you've had an affair. But there are ways that are better than others. One of the worst ways to do it is to go into embarrassing detail about every liason ever and try to justify your bizarre behavior over the last one by saying that this affair was totally different ( Read more... )

I have a few questions about this ruling.

Let me start by saying that it is amazing, given the kinds of questions even the liberal SCOTUS justices were asking, that they ruled as they did. I'd also like to add, as many on progressive blogs have been doing, that I, too, was certain before I read the details of the ruling that Thomas would be the ( Read more... )

I watched the press conference with Governor Sanford yesterday. It was one of the worst attempts to defuse a situation as ever I saw. I understand that he's supposed to be "unconventional," and many of his constituents probably prize shooting from the hip over practiced, careful speechifying, but it was just embarrassing to watch.

It takes this ( Read more... )

Great White Shark am not serial killer; me am puppy!I object to this salacious headline for three reasons. One, this isn't exactly news. You have some hundreds of millions of years in which sharks have evolved to be perfect predators. If they survived on randomly chomping at prey, they would never have made it this long. And speaking of evolution, ( Read more... )