How to concern-troll a fat woman, Howard Stern style.

Howard Stern shows us how here, in his tirade about Gabourey Sidibe having the nerve to exist: “There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s never going to be in another movie,” Stern ranted. “She should have gotten the Best [...]

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Unenforceable, eh?

The Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision has spurred Sec’y of State Ken Bennett and a bipartisan group of legislators to rush to put together a bill that will bring our state’s law pertaining to corporate campaign contributions into line with that decision. The Secretary of State’s Office is proposing changes in state campaign contribution [...]

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So much wrong with this I don’t know where to begin

H/T to Joe.My.God. The photo on the left is the one that a Florida Christian group used to illustrate their objection to a lesbian couple adopting a child in an alert to members. The photo on the right is the actual couple. Sigh. But wait, there’s more! Scott Maxwell, editorialist for the Orlando Sentinel, couldn’t [...]

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Because we know guys never lie about stuff like this.

A Republican State Assemblyman named Mike Duvall from Yorba Linda, CA resigned in disgrace a couple days ago after a camera caught him bragging, using graphic detail, to fellow lawmakers about his sexual conquests with female lobbyists. This “family values” conservative (ardent Prop 8 supporter who got stellar ratings on his voting record from socially [...]

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I have a bad cold and way too much time on my hands today.

I was starting to feel hinky last night as I left the Capitol. My throat was beginning to hurt and I had a headache. I thought maybe it was just a combination of tiredness and anger over the budget but I woke up this morning with my throat on fire and a temperature. Hope none [...]

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To the two men, one conservative and the other liberal, who called me “rude” today.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. Rebecca West – 1913 Just sayin’.

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