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Bam Bam goes bye bye from Concerned Women for America

Matt "Bam Bam" Barber, one of the "like-minded men with Concerned Women for America," has decided to leave one of the curiously estrogen-free posts at the organization, policy director for cultural issues (homo-obsessive Bob Knight was the director of its Culture and Family Institute). The Advocate:

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Bamboo Reviews: Sex and the City

Warning: I spoil. Get used to it.

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Just why would we get the idea that he's McSame?

This is brilliant. The Jed Report has a mashup of the obliteration of John McCain...by John McCain on whether he's hand-in-glove with Dear Leader.

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Random Question

Almost every major gas station you go to these days allows you to pay at the pump with a credit or debit card, and includes a keypad that allows you to input a PIN, choose a receipt, ask for a car wash, etc. These pads obviously include numerical keys as well.

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Well, I never

I just watched the final episode of this season's Battlestar Galactica.

Holy fucking shit.

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This ain't no party, this is empathy boot camp, ladies

Those evo psych quacks are getting craftier about pushing their message (in essence: women are less worthy than men and therefore should have to do more work for less pay)---the trick increasingly is not to flatter male egos by telling them that they're meant to roam around town fucking everyone in sight while "natural" women appreciate staying at home being monogamous. That was a crashing failure and made women eager to look for the flaws in research that doesn't exactly conform to our experiences of being women. No, the trick now is to put down men and flatter women in hopes that women don't notice that, at the end of the day, the evo psych theory is on shaky ground and is dangerous to our rights. That's the trick in this article that uses the angle of arguing that our "hard-wiring" makes men boring, so see ladies, that smaller paycheck isn't that big a deal. (Hat tip.)

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This post is not about who you're not voting for

Via Feministing, Katie Halper has written a loyalty oath for former Clinton supporters who are signing on with McCain:

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Bamboo Review: Incredible Hulk

imageOf all of Marvel's core canon superheroes, the Hulk has always been my least favorite, if for no other reason than few writers have ever done anything convincingly interesting with Bruce Banner, the Hulk's alter ego. For the most part, he's simply a milquetoast afraid of the beast that lies within, filling up panel space and providing a deus ex machina for the Big Green Machine to get from point of destruction A to point of destruction B. He also lacks the villains' gallery to be a particularly interesting hero - most of those are either stolen from other characters' castoffs or else entirely uninspiring. Bi-Beast, for instance, once had a showdown with Squirrel Girl. Squirrel Girl, for God's sake.

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Bare naked TSA travel, part two

I blogged about the Transportation Security Administration's invasive screening devices back in 2006, but they are in the news again because the technology is being deployed in even more airports.

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Romance is about sex?

Wow, people really suck. Look, I can understand why people can rationalize their antsiness about their teenage children's sexuality, even as they know full well that they were having those feelings and screwing around at that age and managed to survive intact. You're never going to be young again, so you're not putting your own interests in jeopardy by resenting and trying to control the sexuality of teenagers. But resenting and trying to control the sexuality of the elderly seems self-defeating to me, because, Disco Ball willing, you're going to be an old person one day with a lot of time on your hands, and having Teh Sex might be a fun way to pass that time. I know I hope to be randy into my twilight years.

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