Opinion

GOP guy wants doctors to tell Supreme Court to say no to gay marriage because of the butt sex

Recently two ladies in South Dakota -- who are of the women-who-prefer-women persuasion -- announced that they would like to join themselves together in holy matrimony as is the right of all Americans according to the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Sure the 14th comes twelve amendments after the only one that conservatives think we have to follow, but it made it into the top twenty so it still counts.

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Lawsuit against first U.S. copyright trolls for extortion ends in victory

A few years ago, we wrote about how a guy named Dimitry Shirokov, with help from the law firm of Booth Sweet had taken on the "fathers" of copyright trolling in the US, Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, who had formed an organization called US Copyright Group…

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Stephen Fry doesn't know what it's like to have OCD eyes

Fry has done so much for public perceptions of mental illness, but those of us with OCD know how misjudged his cake tweet was

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How feminism became a great way to sell stuff

It happens to Guardian readers, too: feminist fatigue™ – a debilitating condition that starts with mild exhaustion in the face of recurring debates about reproductive rights and discrimination and escalates to a crippling inability to decide whether the length of your pubic hair is reactionary or revolutionary. But don't worry, ladies, help is at hand … albeit from unusual sources.

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The rise of the precariat promises a renewal of the left

Next year is the 800th anniversary of one of the greatest political documents of all time. The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. Today's political establishment seems to have forgotten both it and the emancipatory, ecological Charter of the Forest of 1217. The rising mass class of today, which I call the precariat, will not let them forget for much longer.

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