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So this weekend, we took our 17-month-old daughter to see the new Tinkerbell movie. Now, the first two Tinkerbell movies are pretty decent fare. They take a character that’s been mired in gendered bullshit and do some interesting things with her. My favorite bit is that they make her a “tinker-fairy,” and she builds stuff. [...]
Today I got the following email from the America Speaking Out project. It thanks me for participating, lauds the importance of that participation, talks about how the website is getting a new feature, and encourages me to “keep speaking out.” I want to thank you for joining America Speaking Out. Our country’s strength has always [...]
A little while ago, I wrote a post asking what the GOP would do with the unexpected results on their “America Speaking Out” website. Today, I received the following email. It appears they’re going with the “cherry picking” option that was, really, always the inevitable result. America Speaking Out Community: First – thank you and [...]
A week ago, House Republicans launched a shiny website called America Speaking Out that would, they thought, throttle their populism into overdrive and allow the American People a forum in which to voice what was really bothering them. From the page: “America deserves a Congress that respects the priorities of the people. Unfortunately, Washington hasn’t [...]
As the image above rather clearly shows, Meghann has shaved her head! She’s donating the hair to Matter of Trust, which will use it to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently human hair is really good at sopping up oil. When asked for comment, Meg said, “I needed a [...]
Which only goes to prove the well-known axiom: any religious ceremony can benefit from the addition of pyrotechnics.
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