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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 [...]

Like Hope, But Different: McCain's Plans for Iraq in 12,008

Um, actually, I don’t care which Democratic candidate we elect, as long as it’s someone who doesn’t want to bomb Iran like this psycho:

Good God!: Religious Violence, Imperialist Violence, Violent-Violence.

As the New York Times pointed out recently, U.S. Iraq War Veterans have been killing people. I mean, not just people from another place, but people in our country. Flabbergasting, isn’t it? We train people to kill non-US citizens, and then they kill US citizens. You’d think all people were created equal or something. So [...]

Metrosexual: Frogs turn to Prince Charmings, Anarchy Ensues?

  So I was cleaning out my desk this weekend for the first time since third grade, because I was hoping that somehow my ticket for Rock the Bells would be in there, and I came across some ugly ass wrapping paper. It was graced with snowflakes and the visages of mid-nineties pop stars – [...]

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 [...]

Price of Freedom:Heteronormativity & Human Blood, $399 and up

I keep seeing this bumper sticker everywhere that says “Freedom isn’t free.” I would paste it here, but if you’ve been in the U.S. recently in the daytime and you have decent vision or corrective lenses, you’ve probably seen it, too. The idea that freedom has to be bought, or that the possession of symbolic [...]