This heat can suck it!

After tonight’s Fag Bug event, I’m outta here for a couple of days. I’m going to visit my peeps up in Portland, escape this wicked heat and attend my bestfriend’s wedding. Sweet! So in the meantime, please be patient if your comments get trapped in “approval” limbo.

I am a bookaholic

One of the goals I had when launching this blog was to establish a must-read list of books and a must-view list of movies for feminists and liberals/progressives. I’ll save movies for another time, today it’s all about the books. And I have to admit that I am a total bookaholic. I can’t go into…

I’m still pissed about Gonzalez v. Carhart

And apparently, I’m not the only one. In this month’s Elle magazine there are some thoughtful responses to the Supreme Court ruling that upheld a ban on the so-called “partial-birth abortion.” (I say so-called because there is not medical definition of what a “partial-birth” abortion is compared to any other abortion. The language is used…

Presidential cleavage? Gasp!

Well, well, well. Ever since the Gleaner so adeptly pointed out the whole cleavage hob-goblin, I was wondering when a female political candidate might have the, ahem, balls to show a little neck. Or perhaps even sartorially admit to being a woman. And we didn’t have to wait long! On Wednesday, July 18 Sen. Hillary…