One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

In 2003, two years after President George Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy (referred to by abortion proponents as the "global gag rule"), which denies U.S. funds to international groups that commit or promote abortion, the BBC reported the following: Hundreds of women's health organisations in...

There’s always one, isn’t there? The fatuous godbag woman-hater who blames disasters on the Wrath of God. We saw them after Hurricane Katrina, and now they’re starting to waggle their loathsome little fins in the wake of the horrific Victorian bushfires. Today, it’s Pastor Da...

Well, it’s not really that simple. But Matttbastard has a post up at Shakesville about the “Genocide Awareness Project” visiting the University of Calgary. I had my own run-in with these assholes at Temple last year. My first reaction was shock at the giant display (no, I’m n...

Here’s something that’s guaranteed to trigger a blog rant from me: pipe in short URLs on Twitter that lead to graphic anti-abortion videos with an invitation to private message reactions via Twitter. The message seems to be that it’s okay to trick people into viewing biased and inf...

Five days in, and President Obama has made at least two significant moves: One, he signed an executive order which will effectively close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, thereby releasing terror suspects; two, he issued a memorandum which lifts a ban on U.S. funding for international groups tha...

Turns out yesterday’s Douchebag of the Year contestant has a competitor. Already. Courthouse News reports that nurse practitioner (or physician assistant, her labels vary) Sylvia Olona pulled out a woman’s IUD when she had just gone in to have the strings shortened. She then proceeded to...

I've just finished watching "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and it just seems like another one of those conditioning movies. I watched "Cloverfield" a few days ago, it was the same way. Panic, taking away of rights, riots, quarantines, invasion of privacy, murder of civilians, authorities abusing th...

Lets stop with the debate of religion, all religions are pagan and man-made. Christianity as a religion is pagan. After Constantine got a hold of it in the 4th century, he integrated pagan worship into it. That's why you have Christians celebrating birthdays (no Israelite celebrated birth days), Chr...

OK, “What the fuck, Catholic Church?” is like shooting fish in a barrel. But here it is, anyway. The next instalment in my “What the fuck?” series. Roman Catholic doctors and cardinals are wetting their pants with glee over the fact that an 85 year old chemist who contributed...