Per aspera

I know the name Jill Filipovic because she’s O.G. Feministe (not O.G. O.G. Feministe, but she’s been down from, like, day two). Anyway, she’s a good and thoughtful writer and feminist who’s periodically had to put up with sub-asshole Internet behavior from the kind of people who could make Jesus consider misanthropy, because that’s […]

Any time anyone, anywhere, feels like punching a Nazi

Captain America lives.
You cheap publicity-stunting bastards.

Usually, when the blog lies fallow, it’s because I’m paralyzed with laziness. This week, though, I can totally blame being sick and working many hours covering for another employee who’s on vacation.
So use this post to discuss amongst yourselves: Oral Roberts University in the NCAA tournament - how nuts is that?
UPDATE: Another […]

Fox News, everybody.

WASHINGTON - The growing controversy over the Bush administration’s abrupt dismissal of eight federal prosecutors raises a disturbing question: Has the Bush administration tried to use the federal government’s vast law enforcement powers against its political enemies?
Say it ain’t so.
Article.
(via Atrios)

That we’ve (mostly) achieved equality under the law and some semblance of sexual liberation doesn’t mean sexism is, like, so over. It means that those were the easiest things to accomplish.
Shakespeare’s Sister
And it ain’t like those things were all that easy in the first place.

Okay, here’s your Fitzmas post.
Yesterday, Scooter Libby was found guilty of four out of the five crimes with which he was charged:
Count I: GUILTY
Count II: GUILTY
Count III: NOT GUILTY
Count IV: GUILTY
Count V: GUILTY
Shakes had the breakdown.
And Fox News continued its mission to make parody obsolete.
Please feel free to sip champagne, crush on Patrick Fitzgerald, and […]

I am sure I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
(The above is an instantiation of XKCD.)

So at the CPAC conference this weekend, Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot.  Specifically, she said this:
Oh, and I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word “faggot,” so I’m — […]

How much more lovely would mornings be, were I gently urged awake by the voice of Stephen Fry?  Much more lovely.
(via Ellis)

Will this proceed to the point where the bomb squads are detonating each other’s vans in the police garage each morning?
Nangleator, on the Boston Police Department, in this Making Light thread.

This is the greatest video I have ever seen.

I wish you to please note, in my remarks above the video: hyperbole, but absolutely no sarcasm.
(Via)