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Not To Relive The Primary Again, But...

Things like this are part of the reason that many of us didn't vote for Clinton - she assembled a political team with the worst instincts this side of Bob Shrum.

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Jonah Goldberg Is A Serial Rapist

imageJonah Goldberg calls Barack Obama a 21st century slavemaster. Actually, to be fair, he uses a clever allegory that requires much hyperventilating on my part to reach my totally unreasonable point:

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Marky Welby, Medical Rocktor

imageOne of the joys of being an underinsured/sometimes uninsured, but healthy, 25-year-old: every time new insurance asks me for a family doctor or a shot record, I don't have A and I have no idea how to get B. I'm the asshole who shows up and continually has to ask if it's okay if I don't know answers to any number of questions about my medical history, but I'm sure I got all my shots at some point since the early 80s.

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Fundies probably don't do it better

One of the most interesting parts of this review by Louis Bayard of Dagmar Herzog's book Sex in Crisis is an examination of how fundamentalists have resorted to using promises of the best sex you could ever imagine if you just wait until you're married to do it. Bayard suggests liberals should go on the offensive on this tactic, which made me happy, because it just so happens that this liberal is. On this week's podcast, I talk about the evangelical promise of ecstatic sex and suggest, yep, that it's actually about being dutiful and substituting quantity for quality. I didn't want to push it on the podcast (limited time to make a point), but there is a sense in all the lavish erotic writings of evangelicals that are meant to lure you into the fold that the reality is more that women should learn to view themselves as masturbatory devices for men to keep them from self-abuse. Bayard talks about that briefly.

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Mega Science For Choads Debunking

I wish Slate would let me embed their frigging videos, because I'd love to embed the one they have up summarizing a series up by Amanda Schaffer examining all the non-science masquerading as science that claims to find vast differences between men and women's brains, differences that always point to women being a biologically inferior sex---stupid, talks too much, illogical, only good for being fucked and diapering babies. Sadly, there are now women writing books in this vein, though of course they dress up the differences in language that pretends that they're not claiming that women are inferior and should be relegated to second class status. If you slap a woman's name on a book that claims women are inferior, it gives it more credibility, which it shouldn't, because believers should automatically assume that the female author is as stupid as the rest of her gender supposedly is. But you know, you can't claim it's sexist if a woman said it.

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Netroots Nation Panel!

Amanda's post just reminded me, but I'll be moderating a panel at Netroots Nation called Different Tones and Wider Nets, with a panel of stars, from the moderately shrill to the intensely shrill:

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Campus Progress panel

I'm currently in D.C. getting ready for a presentation tomorrow on reproductive justice for the Campus Progress National Conference. If you're coming to the convention, I'd be much obliged if you could come see our talk. Should be some interesting stuff, and I definitely like doing presentations for the young, bright-eyed set.

And From The Ashes Of Destruction...

imagePlease please please please please goddammit please.

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Obvious Limitations

Matt talks about term limits:

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This Is The Movement That Won The Presidency...Twice

Redstate really is easy pickings, Jesus. From the "Obama will pawn the silverware" files:

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Such An Uncle Sam

imageI'm supposed to be shocked by the image in this post, according to David Brody. I'm more impressed that they even changed the skin color on the hand, myself.

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Ken Hutcherson: Seattle government official is racist

Oh please. From the "news" organ of Don Wildmon's American Family Association, a propaganda piece to shore up the tattered rep of Seattle-area homobigot Ken Hutcherson, who is a card-carrying member of the professional "Christian victim" set. You'll recall that Hutcherson spoke at Mount Si High School's MLK, Jr. Day assembly in January. He was booed by one teacher and asked about his anti-gay views by another teacher.

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Profiled by the MSM: article on my blogging in the N&O

My email and voicemail were full of reactions to today's Raleigh News & Observer's profile of me by Sadia Latifi, "Blogger gets respect: Durham resident writes on progressive issues." It's a good look at my blog, with quite a bit of personal background that people may not know about me -- my father's side of the family has deep roots in Durham's political history, and the reporter gave a good summary of it.

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