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Dorian Taylor offers a nice overview of some very useful vocabulary so I will never again have to explain from scratch what I'm talk...

Salon has a little summary of how the IRS “scandal” is nonsense ginned up by the VRWC. The IRS affair is now frozen in public opinion...

A fascinating history of trash collection in New York City. In its early days, the department [of sanitation] didn’t really function ...

I just made a prediction on Twitter. Azrielen asked So how long now until polyamory is up for actual discussion? 100 years, you thin...

The left blogsophere is fond of quoting this editorial from the conservative National Review from 24 August 1957, written by William F. ...

This nine-minute epic animated film about heroes on a grand adventure of swords, magic, and awesome is unforgettable — but a while ago I ...

Morpheus Revenna's post Polytheism: The Light In The Window is pretty terrific, and not just because it quotes me. She talks about h...

This post was inspired by a Facebook post of a Friend which said: “Gentrification: Ethnic cleansing, with a liberal twist!” That's...

An incredible interview with Sarah Kendzior in which she lays out a critique of what she calls “the Prestige Economy”. It's wort...

Marc “I am NOT the Beastmaster” Singer: Darkseid is one of the great archetypal characters, and one of the last to arrive in comics. ...

A Friend from Facebook made a memorable sharp-tongued comment about a certain strain of libertarians. I think property-fetish libertar...

Scott at Jackdaws Love My Big Sphynx of Quartz offers us what he calls The Worst Argument In The World. I declare the Worst Argument ...

Maeve at L'Esprit D'Escalier has the succinct critique of common objections to the word “cis” that I've been looking for, In...

I saw this film in an art gallery 20 years ago, and flirted a little with the animator who made it. I thought I would never see it again...

Over on the Twitters, Marc Rettig points us to a little Forbes piece, ‘Culture of Purpose’ Is Key To Success According To New Research...

David “ The Wire ” Simon explains in a comment on his blog responding to the question, “ I’m curious to hear your thoughts regarding the...

Goofy, I know. But I couldn't resist.

So I guess scandal season is upon us, as once again Republicans try to disrupt a Democratic President's electoral victory through a c...

So I go to see Iron Man 3 and there are a bunch of action movie trailers before the movie starts. Including this one for White House Dow...

Driftglass offers a thumbnail sketch of paranoia and deceit entangled in pseudo-libertarian politics. For them, the world makes only ...

Another item for the “Naomi Wolf is not too bright” file: she's allowed LewRockwell.com to post several articles of hers. Lew Roc...

A long, unhappy index of links for Obama: An Authoritarian Corporatist .

Another silly meme image. It was going around Facebook and I couldn't resist.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I am also informed of the variant known as Grey's Law...

Andrew O'Hehir has an good screed in Salon, How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain, which says that the events around t...

These words were published by a well-known radical feminist in 1974. (Note that at that time, “transsexual” was used where today one woul...

I keep referencing this cartoon and having to track it down again, so I'm posting a copy of it here for my convenience. It makes the ...

I don't know if this story is true , but I know that it's plausible. I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subsc...

I just discovered that Blogger has mislaid my post about what may be my favorite news story ever. He was walking toward the stairs wh...

This nugget of snark about David Brooks' writing, from Charles Pierce, is irresistible. Irritable mental gestures that resemble ...