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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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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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Hospitality: Coffee, Tea, or Me?
Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Pornography, Self Objectification, airline, beauty, binge drinking, bird flu, cabin crew, casual sex, corporate objectification, culture of fear, danger, discrimination, drug culture, fashion, fear, flight attendant, gender, gender role, hooters, marriage, objectification, pedophiles, pensions, plane, pregnancy, profession, sex, sexism, sexuality, standard of beauty, stereotypes, stewardess, stripping, terrorism, truancy, uniform, uniforms, union.
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Who cares if you got raped: stop staring at my dog!
Holy shit, check out this horrific story from Rawstory.com: I don’t know what to say. The horror is heightened by the fact that I know and love Chelsea, VT. Also, to lighten things up: (thanks, Danno!)
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Vermont, alternative justice system, cartoon, dog, get your war on, jurisprudence, police, rape, sexual assault, shoetying, terrorism, theft, women battering, women's rights.
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