Author: media girl

  Imagine we’re in the decade of the 1960s. Imagine that the civil rights movement is heating up. Imagine African Americans agitating for their rights as Americans, demanding equal protection, equal access to the...

Of course, if you don’t want a cola — or any kind of sugared, carbonated beverage — this kind of question doesn’t help. It seems that the same kind of thing is happening in politics, where people...

[cross-posted from media girl] There’s been a lot of calling for real accountability when it comes to Bush and his administration’s neglect of essential government programs related to our national security and civil...

Alright, let’s fucking stop all this nonsense and get back to fundamentals. When one person breathes, one person eats, one person shits, then there’s (duh!) one person. A woman is one person. A pregnant woman is one...

If you read some of the überblogs on the John Roberts hearings, you’ll see a lot of talk about the right to privacy — which Roberts himself called “the so-called right to privacy” in an internal memo...