I don’t even know if I have the stomach to do full commentary on this shit. So here are the highlights. Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan
Why? Well remember that rape kit story? Yeah, so it turns out Palin Had Direct Role In Charging Rape Victims For Exams. She actually cut the funding for the city to pay for it herself! WTF?! Tell me again how she’s a feminist? Tell me
Biden? Biden of: -“the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean” fame? and -“You cannot go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Oh, I’m not joking.” and -Who didn’t even realize that his own
So apropos of one of my earlier posts, we’ve had another Incident in the SF community. In a nutshell, the editor of a prominent fiction magazine sent a rejection letter to a hopeful writer which contained some blatantly bigoted statements against Muslims. The letter got
Racialicious’s AJ Plaid talks about “hipster racism”, in the context of the New Yorker Obama cover debacle: I define hipster racism (I’m borrowing the phrase from Carmen Van Kerckhove) as ideas, speech, and action meant to denigrate another’s person race or ethnicity under the guise
I’m collecting some more data. This has turned into quite a deep post. Meanwhile, I am amused at the # of hits I continue to get. And now from encyclopedia dramatica! Keep linking to me, guys! I’ve been trying to convince advertisers to buy space
This past weekend I was in Wisconsin for the WisCon convention. I have a lot of posts to write about that, including some ruminations on panels and some stuff about POC at WisCon. But this post is about something that happened during the convention that
So I get back from my little vacation and find that Black Amazon took down her blog. I don’t have a lot to say about that, because it should be obvious that it fucking angers me that white feminist bloggers (need I say ‘certain white
Fuck Seal Press. Fuck Salon Broadsheet. Fuck Amanda Marcotte. No seriously, Fuck You. How can I even begin to describe how annoyed I am with certain elements of the white feminist blogosphere right now? It’s going a bit beyond words. So much so that really,
Being linked to from a White Supremacist website. Happy Monday! ETA: Wow, if you all could see my moderation queue right now. This is the kind of thing that makes people leave the Internet. It really is. I went through a good chunk of my