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Antonin Scalia:Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Concentration Camps
As if we needed reasons to fear and loathe Antonin Scalia, we’ve just received another. (WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS DISTURBING.) No, it’s not that hunting trip he took with Cheney – wikipedia offers that “Scalia refused, however, to recuse himself in the case of Cheney v. United States District Court for the District of [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Western, abu ghraib, ann coulter, antonin, ass, ballot, battlefield, camp, cartoon, case, cheney, civil court, concentration, concentration camps, constitution, coulter, court, crime, dick, district court, district of columbia, escape, execute, execution, fair trial, fascism, guantanamo bay, hamdan, harold, humanity, judge, kumar, legal, legal recourse, middle easterner, mullah, politics, preventative war, prevention, punk, punkassblog, recuse, rumsfeld, scalia, suicide, suicide attempts, switzerland, terrorism, terrorist, torture, vice president, war, waterboard.
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Feminism Lives: Isabel Allende and Global Women's Rights
In need of a little new year’s inspiration? Broadsheet “recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. (It was just posted on the TED site in January 2008.)””It’s moving,” writes Broadsheet’s Katharine Mieszkowski, “to watch Allende exhort [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, TED conference, Uncategorized, Wangaari Mathai, abu ghraib, abuse, balance, beauty, celebrity, domestic violence, fame, female empowerment, feminine energy, feminism, feminist, flag, gender, global, hope, human rights, isabel allende, loren, olympics, passion, patriarchy, power, sofia, sophia loren, taxes, violence, writing.
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Militant Israeli Pimps & Women as Aggressors
Thanks to Feministing for alerting me to this alarming new campaign- jointly launched by Israel and Maxim- to promote “Women of the Israeli Defense Forces” as objects. According to the BBC, “The pictures are part of a public relations drive to improve the image of the country within the US. Maxim said it was [...]
Posted: June 21st, 2007 under A Room Of One's Own, BBC, Coco Fusco, Female Sexuality, Gal Gadot, Gitmo, Hamas, Israel, Israeli, Israeli consulate, NPR, Pornography, T&A, abu ghraib, abuse, bikini, conflict, damsel in distress, feminism, feminist, lad mag, male gaze, maxim, military, objectification, power, prison, professor, public relations, rape, sexist, sexy, soft core, soldier, torture, war, women in the military.
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