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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, [...]

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Friday, March 9th, 2007

And They Showed It on International Women’s Day…

So yesterday was International Women’s Day and Blog Against Sexism Day, and what shows up on Disney Channel? The age-old beaten by a girl plot.
Yes, the two boys sit there and talk about how “humiliating” it was to have a girl be better than you; sure, he admitted that it was OK to be beaten [...]

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Thursday, March 8th, 2007

“Can I Look at Your Ass Now?”(or “I don’t want to be sexist, but damn, women are hot!”

It’s Blog Against Sexism Day, and I thought I’d address one issue that seems to be a sticking point for a lot of guys who are otherwise not particularly sexist:

From a comment on this thread on Femisite:

that there WILL be times when I look at a girl’s ass because, well, I rather like ‘em. (There is obviously a line between leering/being creepy which is a digression I’m not interested in right now)

Ah, the eternal question: How can I respect women when I still want to check out their asses?

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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Please Don't Throw the Country Away

(If you don’t follow politics, you may not know this: The Senate is getting ready to pass a bill that eliminates the right to a trial or even a military tribunal for "illegal combatants"–and has such a vague definition of that term that it could be used against just about anybody. The bill also eliminates [...]

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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

To All My Friends

I seem to be on somebody’s shit list. (More precisely, I’m not on the "Not on the Shit List" list, which in this particular case means the same thing.) Apparently I’m a selfish, inconsiderate jerk, an irresponsible loser, and a lousy excuse for a friend. I have been formally invited to go fuck myself by [...]

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Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Shaving

A continuation of this discussion, question 2:
1) When can I start shaving my armpits and my legs?
Like bras, shaving is a sign of "growing up". And like bras, all forms of depilation–shaving, waxing, creams, lotions, pumice stones, sandpaper (yes, sandpaper!), electrified needles, coils that rip out by the roots, or lasers–are universally loathed by women. [...]

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

Bras

A few of the kids in my neighborhood are hitting puberty, and it’s interesting to watch the all the parents come face to face with the ancient, awkward questions of sexuality and societal gender roles.
And these questions are not easy to answer. There just may not be any answers at all. Heck, most of [...]

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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

At Last, Real Reporting Returns

I saw an amazing report on a congressional scandal the other day. The reporter laid out the issues, and then noted that he tried to talk to the congressman involved, but the man walked out of the interview. The reporter showed a copy of an email going around Congress warning them that he was asking [...]

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Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Step Away from the Keyboard

If you follow the political blogs of either stripe, you’ve heard of Ben Domenech, the 24-year-old Republican campaign worker and son of a White House staffer who was hired to be a "conserative voice" at the Washinton Post. Turns out the boy plagerized quite a bit at his college newspaper and subsequent blog positions. By [...]

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Monday, March 20th, 2006

1000 Words

A long time ago, I wrote a poem after seeing a moving picture of a soldier in Iraq holding a child. This is not the exact picture–the angle is not the same, and the soldier is looking down instead of at the camera–but this looks like the same soldier in the same situation. Honestly, I [...]

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