It's called… Description: Presidential candidate Danielle Powers, full of firebrand pluck and red state sex appeal, has the country in a tizzy. But on an international tour to beef up her foreign policy experience, disaster ensues—her plane explodes over Siberia. Miraculously, Danielle survives, along with one other passenger—a mysterious stranger named Steadman Bass. Trapped in a wilderness of snow and ice, … Read More
I Feel Sorry For These People
From Business Insider: Taking time off for family or passions "can offer a nice life," legendary GE CEO Jack Welch once told The Wall Street Journal. But he said that it lessens the chances for promotion or to reach the top of a career path. Welch is not the only one who believes this. Recently, Glencore Xstrata PC CEO Ivan Glasenberg argued that executives who start to … Read More
This Week’s Viral Video Is A Bit Of Social Activism
The subject? Lookism. 4.2 million hits in two days. But let's be fair. A&F aren't complete douches: Late on Wednesday, American retailer Abercrombie & Fitch announced it would sign a safety upgrade plan that has been signed by six major European retailers and one other American company, PVH, owner of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Izod. The agreement, which is legally binding, includes … Read More
How’s That Hispanic Outreach Going, GOP?
Pablo Pantoja has an impressive resume. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan, on tours with the National Guard. Since then, he's climbed the ladder of Republican politics. Most recently, he was the State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee. Until yesterday. Yesterday, he became a Democrat. Why? Here's an excerpt from his explanation: Yes, I have … Read More
NC Legislature Wants To Teach Children Lies
If the Republicans in the GOP-dominated legislature get their way, students in North Carolina sex education classes will be taught that abortions are a cause of future pre-term births. You know who says that is true? Me neither. You know who says that's not true? The World Health OrganizationThe CDCThe American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsThe American Academy of PediatriciansThe … Read More
Right Outrage, Wrong Target
26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2013 What a monumental douche. The problem isn't putting men and women together. Does Donald have separate areas in his casinos — one for women, one for men? The problem is the … Read More
NC Legislature Can’t Keep Its Hands Of Womens’ (and Young Girls’) Bodies
Think Progress: A measure advancing in the North Carolina legislature would require teens to obtain notarized, written parental consent in order to access a range of health services, including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, birth control prescriptions, pregnancy care, mental health counseling, and substance abuse treatment. HB 693 seeks to amend the state’s existing parental consent law — which already prevents … Read More
Rhode Island Joins The Future
And then there were 10. Overcoming years of resistance, Rhode Island on Thursday became the 10th state in the country and the last in New England to approve same-sex marriage. The measure passed a final vote in the legislature in the afternoon. Just before 7 p.m., Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent who had long advocated for its passage, signed it into … Read More
Oldest Concentration Camp Survivor Dead At 107
AP: VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian organization that tracks the fate of Nazi concentration camp inmates says the oldest known survivor of such a camp has died aged 107. The Mauthausen Committee said Thursday that Leopold Engleitner died April 21. After refusing to renounce his faith as a Jehovah's Witness, he survived three concentration camps and forced labor between 1939 and 1945. He weighed just 28 kilograms — about … Read More
AFA Reacts To Collins
So yesterday, NBA player Jason Collins comes out as gay. A Jackie Robinson-esque moment, given that no active professional athelete in the United States has ever done the same. Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association tweets: Proof they are not "born that way:" Collins' IDENTICAL twin – SAME DNA – is straight as an arrow. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/… — Bryan Fischer … Read More
Bad Day For Conservatism In Sports
Tim Tebow get the boot. The first active player from any U.S. professional sports league to publicly reveals his homosexuality.
A Little Late, Sandy
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the conservative retired justice who provided the fifth vote to install George W. Bush as president, is now having second thoughts about that decision: Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high court should have taken [Bush v. Gore]. “It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” O’Connor … Read More