she just wants to be kissed all the time
15 July 2009 @ 07:27 pm
awww  
They had a segment on Shifty Powers on NBC News tonight.

ETA: And as Olivia brought to my attention, he made it to Snopes as well.
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
12 July 2009 @ 08:38 am
Former CIGNA executive talks about how the industry blunted the effect of Michael Moore's movie Sicko and how the industry is far less efficient than government-run Medicare

IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart: Everyone loves a bargain, but a new book illuminates the dangers of cheap stuff

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I posted both of those on Facebook; what I did not post there was that neither of those articles should be very surprising to anybody, except for a few details.
Man, now I'm depressed :-P
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
03 July 2009 @ 02:01 pm
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I really liked what Cleo said (she and I are very close in age, so I think that's part of it).
 
 
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
24 June 2009 @ 08:10 pm
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn't Age
Ahhhh! Okay, I am rather well informed about a lot of "medical oddity" stories and this one is even freaking me out a bit.

This is a great post about evo-psych:

The narrative about how all women are whores isn’t a cute one, but causes real pain to both men and women.  The assumption that women are sex (but don’t like sex) discounts the various ways that women have to compete for sexual partners and attention, just like men have to.  Which means that all the work that women put into their physical appearance and other sexual displays (including mix tapes!) is treated not like effort at all, but just wallpaper.  That sort of erasure of women’s efforts helps erase their desires, and when you’ve taken women’s subjectivity out of it like that, it becomes very easy to believe that they don’t have a right to say no, especially after men perform the correct sequence of behaviors, the number of nits picked, as it were. 

Or, to put it another way, this reinforces the damaging narrative that men are the ones who do all the striving and desiring.  Which in turn means that women are expected to give up the pussy after a certain number of flowers/dates/whatever are produced from men, because sex is a service women provide to men, which means that it should be provided when the payment is produced.


And there's this:

Forgiveness is a privilege for straight men, and even then, it only matters in politics, and let’s face it, they think you should only get it if you’re a Republican, to boot.


And lastly: The broken ethics of the evangelical economy

In totally different news, have a look at Marie Wadman's tattoo portfolio. *_____*
 
 
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
23 June 2009 @ 08:01 pm
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
20 June 2009 @ 05:27 pm
wat  
Why is "Band of Brothers" on? Not that I'm complaining, but....
Maybe it's because Shifty passed away this week?
Oh, and it's Father's Day weekend.

ETA: So... nevermind, really.
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19 June 2009 @ 09:00 pm
WOW this is pretty breathtakingly bad, even for advertising. I like how one of the commenters tries to say it's okay because it's from Israel and they probably think it's funny over there.
 
 
she just wants to be kissed all the time
18 June 2009 @ 07:17 pm
ha  
Twitter Unleashes Deluge of Sarcasm on Republican Congressman
 
 
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18 June 2009 @ 03:19 pm
aw  
I had just been thinking on the way home about We Who Are Alive And Remain, and come to find out from an email list that Shifty passed away yesterday. My favorites in the book, besides Tipper, of course, are Shifty, Earl McClung, and Frank Soboleski.
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17 June 2009 @ 07:50 pm
"Women Can't Write About Sex," Says Female Sex Writer

There's just so much going on here and so much wrong I can't even begin, lol.
 
 
she just wants to be kissed all the time
16 June 2009 @ 07:37 pm
Clear-eyed conservatism translated into English.

For some people, optimistic thoughts can do more harm than good. "People who view themselves as unlovable find saying that they are so unbelievable that it strengthens their own negative view rather than reversing it."

Excellent post on the women of "Mad Men."
 
 
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
13 June 2009 @ 08:59 am
Happy birthday, Liz! *squishes*
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
12 June 2009 @ 10:56 am
Gene Simmons thinks Adam Lambert should shut up about his sexual preferences and his personal life

I don't even have to make a joke about that....

In other news, gay penguin dads hatch chick
 
 
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11 June 2009 @ 09:00 pm
ha  
"30 Rock" is a ripoff of "The Muppet Show"
 
 
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she just wants to be kissed all the time
09 June 2009 @ 08:08 pm
Amanda on Oprah's pushing of woo-woo "medicine"

Jesse: Ross Douthat tells us, as a friend of course, that anti-choice whackjobs will stop killing doctors just as soon as we bow to their demands.  But if you call it “common ground”, then it’s not caving to terrorists.

This Modern World: Abortion seen through the eyes of the rightwingoverse
 
 
 
she just wants to be kissed all the time
01 June 2009 @ 05:34 pm
Ross is adorable.



You know, that "Don't look her in the eye, don't smile at her, look at other girls while you're talking to her" thing must only work(?) on pretty girls with self-esteem problems. Negging, and all that.
 
 
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