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LOL QotD: Keep Your Sexual Obsessions Straight

This is my LOL Quote of the Day because I really did laugh rather loudly by myself in my house when I read it. A commenter going by the handle "ice9" left a response to crazy lady Debbie Schlussel (a notoriously strange …
QotD: Stewart Pwns, Congress Groans

Today's quote comes from John Stewart on the October 14 episode of The Daily Show. In a segment on the proposed amendment by Al Franken to refuse government contracts to companies that insist workers use private arbitrat…
Mr. Clyman: Thou Art a Douche

This week in Men Who Explain Things we have the delightfully obtuse and douchey Jeremy Clyman. He's totes getting his PhD in clinical psychology and this, combined with the obviously superior default world view bestowed …
But he only raped one little girl

A poem, as published in the October 26 issue of The Nation: What Whoopi Goldberg ('Not a Rape-Rape'), Harvey Weinstein ('So-Called Crime') et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman PolanskiBy Calvin Tri…
Racism FAIL...err, WIN...err, what?

You have to kind of admire this guy. Because it takes a super special American mixture of hubris and asshattery to actually claim you're not a racist while displaying this sign outside your restaurant: H/T to Stuff W…
It's Not My Job to Make You Forget I'm Female

Erin Andrews is a woman. She also happens to be an attractive, blonde sports reporter for ESPN. That alone, according to Christine Brennan, is evidence that she was "asking for it" when someone videotaped her undressing…
Well Played...Kendra Wilkinson?!

Wow. Kendra Wilkinson has always struck me as a fascinating sort of woman. She's very young but very experienced, very beautiful but also very comfortable in her own skin, rather uncouth and yet still very likeable. Her…
Can you stab a newspaper?

No? Well, at least you can contact the editorial staff. Because this shit is really not okay. This victim-blaming pile of crap masquerading as a concerned rape article was slapped with this headline: Normal 0…
King of the Castle

I weep for this man's wife. I have no idea how she really feels (though he assures us that she "wakes up singing") and I'm not trying to strip her of her agency as a woman free to marry whomever she chooses. But two part…
Today's "Duh" Moment Brought to You by Abstinence Only Educators

Teenagers are having just as much sex now as they did in the 1990s. The only difference is that now they're not using contraceptive and disease-preventing resources... ...because asshats keep coming into their classroom…