Ah, Fox News... so entertaining!

I mean, this was meant for a joke, right? (Take a gander at this post over at Bitch, Ph.D., and we can all have a laugh.)

Okay, okay, I know they weren't joking, but I just don't want to believe they don't know the Lincoln -Douglas debate were not between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, who didn't even spell his name the same fucking way. But when I see this video, well, I have to admit these guys are even more ignorant than I thought.

And thanks to Wonkette for her original post, which inspired me to make a new tag.

The Daily Fail strikes again

So, I was reading an article on the Daily Mail website about how young women who inherit their body type from their hippy mothers (no, not mothers who like to wear patchouli and wear love beads, necessarily) should literally diet and exercise their asses off. The impetus for this is a picture of Princess Beatrice in a bathing suit which shows that the girl has the nerve to have hips, just like her mum! Mind you, the writer starts out by saying the princess is not by any means fat. So, burning calories is supposed to do what exactly? (Leaving aside the argument about how effective weight loss is in those of us who actually are fat, of course.) And then some ass of a commenter refers to the woman as morbidly obese.

When I was done banging my head on the keyboard, I noticed that there was a link to a story about an alleged Jimi Hendrix sex tape. My curiosity aroused, I followed the link and read the story, which was accompanied by a number of photos, including this one:



The caption is "Hippy values: Hendrix pictured with two un-named women in the late sixties." Well, I am notoriously bad at putting names with faces, but those two unnamed woman sure as heck looked like half of the Mamas and the Papas to me. And, whaddaya know— a Google Image search for "hendrix phillips elliot" brings up many instances of that same photo. Now, I know nobody considers The Mail a great newspaper, but FFS, if I of all people am better at identifying the people in a photo that they are, they're more pathetic than I realized.

via Shapely Prose

Heteronormativity and sexism go together like a horse and carriage

So, immediately after I read a post on Shakesville about how several bloggers have suggested the Obama campaign use Scarlett Johansson, who's campaigning for them, as some kind of sexy vote bait for Jason Rae, who at 21 is the youngest superdelegate, I read at Joe.My.God that "Gay Man is Youngest Superdelegate." Ha! Misogynistic and badly researched!

Brilliant!

via Joe.My.God

Alert Rick Santorum!

Indian Man Marries Dog

A reception attended by some 200 guests was held for the newlyweds in the groom's house during which Selvi grew restless and ran away.

However she was subsequently recaptured and returned to her husband who gave her milk and a bun to eat.

via Joe.My.God

This is one gutsy young woman

QueerToday has an interview with high school student Claudia Contrada who came out as a lesbian to her mother, one of the founders of Mass Resistance.



via Joe.My.God

We're Number One!

I found a meme over at Shakesville that I couldn't resist, knowing, as I did, what some of the answers would be before I even started. In short: "attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into Google [...] you'll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit".

I believe my results show that while this blog doesn't have a huge amount of content, it is full of snarky goodness.


Here are my results:
1. that queer chick (duh!)
2. smooching baby dykes
3. ex-gay-o-rama
4. irrefragably evil
and my favorite,
5. Is there any motherfucker leading the "family values" movement who doesn't want to give dudes a blow job in a mens' room?

Those are all without resorting to the dread quotes. If you do enclose the search in quotes, this one works too: "once again, it's all about the dick".