See, It Was Rape, But Not the Bad Kind of Rape, Not the Rapey Rape

I just watched a new clip (which I assume will come up here later) about the Rutherford County School Board president who at a school board meeting tonight, for some reason, felt compelled to announce that, after viewing the rape of a girl caught on a school bus camera, that he was disappointed in the [...]

I Don’t Want to Say I Told You So, but…

Firing Hobbs would have been total bullshit because the problem runs much deeper.  Check out this story at the Scene about what a charmer that Robin Smith is.
Over at Pith, Jeff Woods compares her rhetoric to Bin Ladin, which is all well and good and true, but I think he’s missing the more important comparison.  [...]

One or the other

It’s the kind of day you either want to spend hanging between two palm trees on a beach in San Juan

or listening to Nina Simone, practicing singing “Go to Hell” in that cheery a voice.
As you might guess, I’m not in San Juan.

Where’s a Girl Find an Acacia Tree in These Parts?

There are some parts I really love in the Bible.  I adore how, even though we’re all supposed to be good girls, it’s the bad girls who do all the fun stuff.  I love Wisdom refusing to be relegated to a ametaphor.  “No,” she says, “I was there with God in the beginning, helping him [...]