Thursday, October 30, 2008
A golden cow with dude parts: They are praying to save the economy! WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
You know, when a woman of my persuasion sees that the New York Times has published an obituary for Gerard Damiano, the director of Deep Throat, she really only has two options: to accept that the New York Times will not report Linda Lovelace’s claims that she was beaten, raped, and coerced with threats of […]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Roy Den Hollander, the man who exists solely to confirm your darkest fears about men who look like Roy Den Hollander, has filed suit against Columbia for having a Women’s Studies program. Here, he explains: “To me, Columbia is a bastion of feminism, a boot camp for turning out feminist stormtroopers who pervert the constitutional […]
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Yes, it’s true: if you are reading this, Aaron P. Taylor of UnCommoN SENSE (“a Blog on Deciphering the Enigma that is Life”) probably did not rape you. (If he did: my apologies. You can put away the baking sheet now.) In fact, Aaron P. Taylor cares so much about rape, and your safety from […]
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I’ve been trying to speak with people lately about genius and gender. Not surprisingly, no-one is taking the bait! This is why one starts a blog – because the issue of whether women can be imagined or understood as “geniuses” is a tricky one. I can’t quite figure it out. Not long ago, I read […]
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So, I thought I was going to miss the Mad Men finale, and then it turns out that you can find it online! Ha ha, no, this is from Saturday Night Live, and I am a dork for posting it. I can, however, confirm that Steps #1 and #2 will actually work on a real […]
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I know that last post was pretentious as all fuck, and a bit heavy on the hipster-hate, and I know that hipster-hating is played out and pointless, but seriously: If the truth must be told, he was a little bit frightened of middle and lower class humanity, and of foreigners not of his own class. […]
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Do you remember Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon? The really unbelievably adorable old lady activists who founded the Daughters of Bilitis? They got married in California in 2004, and then their marriage was voided, but last June they got married – again – almost instantly after the Supreme Court overturned the ban on same sex […]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Think of W.H. Auden. Hannah Arendt reportedly described his living quarters this way: “His slum apartment was so cold that the toilet no longer functioned and he had to use the toilet in the liquor store at the corner.” Two differences between W.H. Auden and the rest of us: (a) W.H. Auden was one of […]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Here is a fact: I have been living on my own (after many years of doing, well, not that) for about a year now. Friends were made! Life lessons were learned! Landlords were avoided! I’ve been rolling these facts over in my mind, trying to understand how my life has changed, and how I have […]
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