@hatepuns: The playboy foundation, which she took a very active role in, was a big funder of women's issues, as well as AIDS and HIV, both in Chicago and globally. There are a lot of feminists who get their money from problematic places, that does not make them not feminists. It just makes them human beings living…

@katekate is squared: it's been really bugging me the way that Jezebel has had a whole ha ha tone about the assault. This is domestic violence, pure and simple. Abusing people's pets is frequently a part of domestic violence. Clearly the judge thought it was a serious offense since she was sentenced to jail for it…

@GirlyQ: but she's in love, and love's a funny state of mind: It can be a way for observant muslims to be physically intimate for a period of time before they get officially married. It's actually a pretty progressive institution if you're thinking about marrying someone that you're officially not allowed to touch…

@LaFemme: They only show up in the morning of the days that the clinic performs abortions. And they leave once the women are inside. They are not particularly interested in women, only fetuses.

@luchita: Looks like they're still at it : [www.operationsaveamerica.org]

I escorted for four years at a really heavily protested clinic in Bridgeport. Towards the end of my time there I discovered that the anti's had a blog, with photos, chronicling everything that took place at the clinic each day. It was surreal and engrossing to learn their real names (and not just the nicknames we…

The military has just assassinated the only left wing candidate in the Honduran elections. Blank-blank I hope you're still happy with how the military is "protecting" Honduran "democracy."

@Blank-Blank: @PeteRR: Yet there are legal resources for these kinds of conflicts between the governing branches that do NOT involve a coup. Even if the congress ratifies it after the fact, that does NOT make it legal. And the precedent of the military being able to step in at any time and remove any leader they…

@shnuguel: I love the whole, legalizing reelection=president for life logic that people have used, both against Chavez and here. Elections in Venezuela are some of the most internationally scrutinized in the world. Chavez only gets re-elected if the majority of the population thinks he's doing a good job. It's only a…

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: that said, if you read the article, you see that her charity's board is made up of the heads of the richest families in Latin America. I wonder how much people like Carlos Slim are interested in looking at the causes of poverty in Latin America, since they're pretty heavily invested in maintaining…

Yeah, I really want to second the good intentions of the folks who made this show/the documentary that proceeded it. As several people have mentioned, the how's your news concept came out of a camp for folks with disabilities. At every step of the way, the how's your news reporters have had full control over what they…

@Tommasino: I swear by mine! Especially since I'm usually making coffee for one. I could never get coffee from the french press as strong as I like it. This much more my speed.

@ExGC: Word. Not only are the Chicago options uninspired and turisty, but they're also just wrong. They list Arun's as under $40, when you literally can't get dinner for one for under $100 (it's a fixed menu). Chowhound has everything you could ask for in my book.

I love Bitch, and I think a lot of the sniping in this post is shitty and unnecessary. Bitch isn't written for a super wide audience, and that's why it's worth my while to give donations to support it. Furthermore, I imagine the $40k to pay for the next printing isn't literally paying for the next issue to be printed.…

I think tummy patting is an excellent strategy! i will remember to employ it in the future!

@LaComtesse: my grandfather actually said to my sister as she was eating "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips"!! it's amazing to think that people believe that they're being helpful when they tell kids shit like that!

Yeah, it's really rough the way parents can pass that shit on to their kids. Both my parents had eating disorders at some point in their lives (and for that matter, both of my sets of grandparents were pretty fucked about weight and food issues) and even though my folks are great people and tried really hard not to…

My partner and I became domestic partners so that I could get on his university insurance plan, but apparently they only recognize same sex domestic partnerships! So no dice there... I now have health insurance through my job, but am applying for a consultant position that wouldn't cover me, and am seriously…

OMG my sister wears a hijab (and is one of the most fashionable woman i know) and she totally loves these sites! Even before she started wearing one and was "just" dressing modestly she was always super beautifully dressed. i don't see a contradiction at all

@snarkhunting: Sex offender registries also make it Really Hard for people to turn in people they know (like their step father or another relative), because a conviction for a sexual offense basically means that you can never hold a job/find an apartment for the rest of your life in many parts of the country. A lot of…