Posted 7/01/09 by Danielle Gram
With my spotty internet connection (Bolivian internet cafes are infamous for their poor quality internet), I´m not sure how much virtual celebrating I will get to do in this blog before unknown powers kick me off. For now, I present you all with this great bit of news to make your day: the NY Times editorial entitled Än Advocate for Women.¨
Posted 6/02/09 by Danielle Gram
It’ll come as no surprise that a compassionate women’s rightist (read: Feminist) like myself found this article in the New York Times this morning unsettling. With the disturbing and disheartening murder of Dr. George Tiller fresh on everyone’s mind, the article subtly suggests the negative implications abolition of our nation’s stance of legalized abortions would have for women (props to NY Times for keeping up the liberal standard of appropriate, timely, and informative reporting).
The article focuses on Tanzania, where the illegality of abortion leads women and girls to dose themselves with herbs and have their stomachs pummeled or objects inserted vaginally to rid themselves of unwanted pregnancies. These barbaric procedures frequently lead to “incomplete abortions,” as well as infections and punctures of the uterus or bowel which can be fatal.
Posted 6/01/09 by Eva Lam
I know. I know. It’s been a while. More than a while. But it’s still a Sunday night, and dammit, this is my right.
And what better time to resume writing a snarky column when the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has given me so very much to snark at? Of course, I’m not referring to the honorable judge herself, but rather to the incredible reactions her nomination has provoked from what remains of the right. To be sure, there are plenty of perfectly reasonable conservatives – including, mercifully, most of those who have any real say in the matter – who understand that fighting the Sotomayor nomination is, at the very least, a bad move from a pragmatic perspective. But there’s also a considerable number of conservatives who seem to believe that confirming Sotomayor would somehow undermine the, um, firm tradition for respecting the rule of law that the Bush administration always observed impeccably. Read more
Posted 5/14/09 by Eva Lam
I’m not exactly El Rushbo’s biggest fan, but for the past four years I’ve been hearing whining from the left that we shouldn’t be questioning people’s patriotism. [Wanda] Sykes [at the White House Correspondents' Dinner] explicitly calls Limbaugh the 20th hijacker on 9/11 and nobody in elite Washington has a problem with that?
Eva’s carefully reasoned response: Maybe that’s because she was joking and they were not.
Am I so out of line here?
(In homage to the great Markus Kolic.)