December 2008
23 posts
"Fighting AIDS is not a get-out-of-homophobia-free...
There’s no reason why Obama shouldn’t return the favor by inviting him to Washington. But there’s a difference between including Warren among the cacophony of voices weighing in on policy and anointing him as the inaugural’s de facto pope. You can’t blame V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an early Obama booster, for feeling as if he’d been slapped in the...
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
“”So… this is a hipster party?” I ask the girl sitting next to me. She’s wearing big dangling earrings, an American Apparel V-neck tee, non-prescription eyeglasses and an inappropriately warm wool coat.
“Yeah, just look around you, 99 percent of the people here are total hipsters!”
“Are you a hipster?”
“Fuck no,” she says, laughing back the last of her glass before she hops off to...
Five sexist trends the advertising world just...
Alex Leo on Huffington Post
Bondage
“I would like to start a “things that are not interesting” campaign, which would include men insecure enough about themselves that they can’t talk to women who aren’t physically degraded. I would also include cognac.”
Rape
“Any man who doesn’t see that this is rape is probably looking at one of the hard bodies...
i feel your pain, mr. president
“On another matter, Mr. Brokaw tried to clarify whether Mr. Obama has actually quit smoking, as he suggested.
The president-elect admitted to having “fallen off the wagon.”
Still, he said, “I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier,” which sounds as if he has at least cut back while taking on perhaps the highest-pressure job in the world.
Mr. Obama...
