Looking back on a good week.
Next week is going to be a humdinger for Arizona progressives in terms of the bad legislation on the agenda but this past week ended on a couple of positive notes and I think we should take a moment to appreciate them. 1. Komen/Planned Parenthood smackdown. Supporters of comprehensive (and that includes reproductive) women’s health [...]
They can keep their “charity” if that’s how it’s going to be.
Conservatives often tell me they are more altruistic than liberals, touting surveys showing that conservatives donate more to charity and volunteer more often. I’ve always been skeptical of those claims because a lot of it is tithing and participating in church activities, which I don’t consider charity except to the extent that they are actually [...]
Personhood has come to Arizona!
Okay, people, did I not tell you the other day that being vigilant about reproductive justice is important? Personhood has reared its head in Arizona. 2010 was the year Arizona voters lost their damn minds and sent a bunch of reactionary whackaloons to the Arizona Legislature, essentially to show that Kenyan Usurper in the White [...]
It’s actually important.
“If all you care about is abortion…” Last week, someone prefaced a comment to me thusly. I’ve heard variants of that line for years, mostly from fellow liberals and centrists who think some of us ladies spend too much time dwelling on reproductive justice when there are so many more Important ThingsTM we ought to [...]
Newt’s primary win shows that GOP “family values” are largely illusory
They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There [...]
Left vs right kinda misses it
Many of my dear friends attended remembrances of the anniversary of the Tucson shooting all over the state. I had intended to go to something but for whatever reason I decided to stay home in the end. There were a couple of good pieces out about the shooting and the (often forgotten) context. Tom Zoeller, [...]
Happy New Year and a last minute pitch for my favorite organization
Yowie! It’s been over a week since I last posted due to holiday stuff and end of the year wrapping up of work stuff. It certainly wasn’t because there haven’t been blog-worthy things happening, since any day ending in Y is a day where conservatives are trying like hell to keep the ladies down. But [...]
