From How to be a Retronaut: Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1935-1958 The description at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library site reads: Included here are twenty-five illustrated front and back covers from pulp fiction novels dating between 1935-1958. This small collection of novels is part of the Beinecke Rare Book and […]
Read MoreThe perfect comment on Pixar’s new film
I’m happy that Pixar is finally producing a film, to be released next year, with a female protagonist. I am, really. I’m also in shock that it has taken this long…but anyway. Here’s the plot synopsis: Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of […]
Read More“It would be nice if we remembered that torture is immoral.”
That was a quote from a comment about one man’s experience of solitary confinement in prison. I would say it sums it up for me, but it has become all too clear to me that there are many people who are not able to remember it. They never knew it […]
Read MoreTaming the tiger
Ed posted at Dispatches today about Slut Walk and Vox Day’s reaction to it. My favorite comment of the thread so far, hands down, comes from Eric: Just as you don’t teach a tiger to stop devouring steak by continuously waving a bloody t-bone in front of it… He’s not just […]
Read MoreThis just in: opponents of Slut Walks identify with rapists. Shocking.
“I see cleavage! Must rape!” Holy cats. If you have a need to troll for misogynists, apparently there’s no better way than to have a Slut Walk. Articles on the subject appeared in the Guardian and the Daily Mail yesterday, and Dawn Foster found these in the Mail’s comment thread: If women […]
Read MoreSlut walk conversation at The Agitator
While Radley Balko’s on vacation, various people are guest blogging at his site. Dave Krueger wrote an entry on the Slut Walk topic, which resulted in a really interesting discussion. In reply to a commenter’s question “But how can you tell the difference between blaming the victim and acknowledging that women […]
Read MoreMan-in-a-banana na na
From Crookedbrains: Japanese artist Keisuke Yamada transforms regular bananas into 3D sculptures. This 23-year-old electrician takes about half an hour using just a toothpick and spoon to create these amazing banana sculptures. My guesses: 1) toothless Dick Cheney with an afro 2) Cthulhu, or maybe Davy Jones 3) Bruce Campbell
Read MoreNow that’s how you counter-protest
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Read MoreUn-toasted terrorist
Hemant Mehta looks at the revenge party after Osama bin Laden’s killing in which t-shirts, political cartoons, and newspapers exult and proclaim that bin Laden is burning in Hell, which a CNN poll says a majority of Americans actually believe, and says simply: Osama bin Laden is not in hell. Because […]
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