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Couple arrested for bondage role-playing on Valentine’s Day
A couple in Portland, Oregon found themselves spending Valentine’s Day in jail after their bondage role-playing resulted in nine police cruisers being dispatched. Responding to reports that a naked woman was seen tied up in the back of a car with duct tape over her mouth, Portland police converged on…
Valentine’s Day finds a niche in Islamic Iran
Iran may reject Western influences, but Valentine’s Day has become a growing phenomenon thanks to the romantically minded youth of the Islamic state’s affluent classes. Although the ruling clerics and hardline politicians have been waging a campaign against what they call “decadent” cultural imports, the Christian day dedicated to amorous displays…
UAE Islamic love guru urges women to enjoy sex
Emirati love guru Widad Lootah is not your typical marriage counsellor. She is an ultra-conservative Muslim who wears the full veil and talks a lot about sex, often quoting the Muslim holy book the Koran. On the eve of Valentine’s day, Lootah is calling on Muslim and Arab women everywhere to “embrace love and…
Why we don’t deserve nice things: Fundies and Halloween edition
Every year around Halloween, it's important to have a post explaining the ridiculous and seemingly growing fundamentalist hostility to the holiday, which they consider too fun demonic. And then after waging actual war on Halloween, these fucktards then go on Fox News and cry that we're trying to kill Christmas…
Atheist buses and abortion parties? That must mean it’s Christmas!
Roy Edroso has his annual round-up of wingnuts pretending Christmas is under assault up at the Village Voice, and it’s a doozy this year. What’s fascinating is that they’re always wrong. It’s always bullshit. A creche is moved from public to private property, and the assessment is this “ruins” Christmas,…
Against Valentine’s Day
I don’t know how to feel about this article by Tracy Quan giving cheeky Valentine’s Day advice to people in a variety of romantic entanglements that indicate that said people are immoral bastards. (With the exception of a sex worker who needs to make her client believe she’d love to…
Garry Marshall hates you
The allure of the number “3″ and the letter “D” drew Marc and me to see “Avatar” on Christmas Eve. (It sucked.) Marc got into the longest concessions line of all time while I held out seats in the theater, which he thought sucked for him, but was actually a…
Why I don’t think this “split” will amount to much by Valentine’s Day
I suspect the main reason Republicans continued to use obstructionist tactics to stall the vote, even after it was a done deal, was that they were hoping that forcing Robert Byrd to come to the Senate every day to suffer through procedural shit in ill health would result in him…
Happy Valentine’s Day…
Enjoy the day. I thought that I’d do a rewind and repost the insane, but entertaining Valentine’s Day gift sent to me by Pastor Billy Ball of Faith Baptist Church, Primrose, Georgia (you have to see his web site to get the full fundie flavor). Anyway, here is what he…
Valentine’s Day Post: Conscientious Objector Edition
Blogging about Valentine’s Day today, because tomorrow is all “Battlestar Galactica”. This ad is from a 1972 edition of Mademoiselle, and is a pretty classic example of how advertisers of the period tried to sell products to women who felt attracted to feminist thought by belittling their aspirations. It seems…
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