- A wonderful excerpt from a new book of Italo Calvino's letters chronicling his awesome feelings about abortion.
- Black Agenda Report on Joy Ann Reid and Melissa Harris Perry, two of the worst Democrat propagandists on television, and their attacks on Edward Snowden.
- Sana Saeed, a great discovery on Twitter recently, on how we converse about religious spaces for Muslims in America.
- A cool article in New York Times about Jason Everman, who was kicked out of both Nirvana and Soundgarden before joining Special Forces. I always wondered what happened to him.
- Boston Globe on my favorite poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Weekly Reader
- Leigh Alexander on the escapism of Animal Crossing.
- Beeta Baghoolizadeh on her experiences at the Texas State Capital during the debates on their disgusting abortion law. Baghoolizadeh frames her narrative around actual invasive assaults on women's rights from misogynists and the delusions of "Creeping Sharia" from the same people.
- Eugene Robinson on how young black men are not allowed to be young and make the mistakes that privileged whites do.
War Prayer 026
I hear it is 1996 and we are on our way to a show?!?! In Toms River?
Amber got her driver’s license first, so Drew and Theresa sat in the back of the boyfriend’s band van while the boyfriend, whatever his name was, sat up front being his usually pleasant self. He went on and on about “the fetus” and how essential it was for us to “defend” it. No word on whether it was important to defend women. Amber disagreed, but, as usual, left him to his views. She was quieter than usual. Theresa and Drew kept quiet. Theresa held Drew’s hand under a pile of the boyfriend’s band’s shirts they were going to sell at the show.
The Pro Life Movement Summed Up Perfectly
Steve Almond sums up the pro-life movement perfectly:
The problem is that unborn children eventually get born and must live in the actual world. In this sense, "pro-lifers" are like the baby daddies of the spiritual world: full of promised love for the abstraction, and nowhere to be found when the kid shows up. They don't want to deal with the fact that some children in this country grow up starved of love, and warped by poverty. . . .
In the weeks to come, the usual pro-choice suspects will dutifully argue on behalf of a woman's rights to choose. That's not going to be enough. The leadership of the left has to recognize that those who oppose choice are not simply benighted crusaders, but bullies who are exploiting the abortion issue to exalt their pathologies.
Reproductive Rights Blog
I recently found the Reproductive Rights Blog, which links news articles on abortion and sex issues. Good way to keep up on abortion rights issues.
Fuck You Mother Fuckers. Fuck You.
Well it looks like The Handmaid's Tale is becoming more of a prophecy as each day goes by. Thankfully this was stopped.
Blogged via Democracy For Virginia and Bitch Ph.D.
Also-Big props to Bitch Ph.D. for always telling it like it is when it comes to reproductive rights.