“The weird part—Ingraham is blonde herself.”

A lesson every cable news channel won’t let me forget: you can always cut an uppity woman down to size by changing the subject to her looks/weight/sexuality/sex appeal because all our value is contained in our usefulness to men, natch. After Laura Ingraham responded to Meghan McCain’s criticism of the acceptance of extremists in the [...]

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Why it’s time for a fourth wave, part one

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. ” –Abraham Lincoln Thus falls another bulwark, the final impetus for me to start antagonizing the Obama faithful on my own turf.  Megan at Jezebel says, somewhat typically, that the [...]

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