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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

It All Makes Perfect Sense Now!

Camile Paglia suggests a very provocative and compelling reason for the recent shooting rampage by a student at Virgina Tech:
The pervasive hook-up culture at college, where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out.
Young women now [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

What’s the Big Deal, Anyway?

Matthew of Defective Yeti  has written up a primer on the US Attorney purge. Several pundits are pushing the talking points that US attorneys are political appointments, so firing them for partisan political advantage shouldn’t raise any eyebrows at all.
The technical term for this is bullshit. 
While it’s true that the appointments themselves are political and raise no eyebrows, once in office, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity, We The Sheeple by Dorothy

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Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Zero Sums and Mondays always get me down

I was reading this post over at Pandagon on the problems with thinking of Feminism as a zero-sum game, and it occurred to me that most of the issues I know of could probably be tied to zero-sum thinking.
Once you have the belief that you can’t gain unless someone else loses, you have an excuse [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity by Dorothy

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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

How Unlucky Is It…

…when you wake up to find a black cat sleeping under a ladder?

A close-up so you can feel the catitude:

No Comments » - Posted in They Who Must Be Adored by Dorothy

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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Mysogynist-to-English Dictionary

Often on various feminist blogs, some poor guy opens up his mouth and makes what he thinks is an innocent statement, only to get verbally shredded by lashing tongues and razor wits.
And the guy sits there thinking, “Hey, Wha Happened?”
Well, it’s possible that the guy has accidentally bumped up against a peculiar language known as [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Historical Analogy Is a Two-Edged Sword

It’s become pretty popular among various “hawkish” bloggers to bask in the reflected glow of 300. The glorification of war and cartoonish* masculinity has been commented on in detail by people far more qualified than I. But the nit I have to pick with the 300 hawks is the “historical analogy” angle. Because of such [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Moral, Schmoral

After General Pace commented about the immorality of homosexuality, the major presidential candidates have all been asked the question, “Do you believe homosexuality is immoral?”
To me, the only answer to ANY question regarding “moral” issues in politics is some variant of this:
It does not matter whether I believe something is immoral. It only matters that [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in In Dorothy's World by Dorothy

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Never Overlook the Importance of Oversight

Now that we have a Democratic Congress, we’re starting to see what actual Congressional oversight looks like. From 2002 to 2007, every single call for investigation into any issue has been tabled, postponed or ignored. Every. Single. One.
Pick an issue:
Mark Foley harrassing Congressional pages
Voting irregularities
9-11 lead up and response
Misuse of intelligence
The outing of a CIA [...]

No Comments » - Posted in We The Sheeple by Dorothy

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Monday, March 12th, 2007

Apologies to Ms. Whatzername

My sixth grade science teacher was the bane of my existence. She was mean and snippy and gave me a B minus! Once, she even held me after class and asked if I was acting out because I didn’t get enough attention at home. It was humiliating and infuriating–
–because she was right. She had me [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Pardon Our Dust

Well, we’re back up after a long hiatus. The database crashed unrecoverably, and the blogging software we were using was being difficult. And of course, all of this happens right as I get into “crunch time” at work, and we all get sick, and…
Anyway, you probably don’t care about all that.
We’ve switched back to WordPress, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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