Catching Up on My Reading

Jaye Ramsay Sutter has a very moving and informative post over at BlondeSense about violence against women. There is NO excuse.

Coturnix points to a G00gle link for the real dope on "Intelligent Design." Link early and often, friends!

The Heretik takes on the "Judy Miller is a 1st Amendment Hero" myth to great photoshopic effect, bless him. Priceless.

Brian R. asks an important question, Is making your own media PsyOps?

Why I don't read any right-wing blogs, summed up nicely by Mithras.

Diane at DED Space has another interesting find re: working women: Short skirt = short shrift.

Bunnatine Greenhouse, American Hero: Pam's House Blend is keeping us up to date on her whistleblower status.

Sour Duck's done a great job on summarizing the BlogHer conference. Lots of good stuff here.

Pinko Feminist Hellcat finds that Fred Phelps is at it again. Let's nickel-n-dime him (in a good way), why don't we? [My run-in w/ his minions here.]

I mentioned my new pal Ping's right-on hack Regender a couple of posts below, and I can't say enough about it. I think everyone should read the news through this filter for a couple of days. It's mindboggling. Queen Fahd passes away and a new Princess will be crowned. You read that one story and think, okay, so Queen for King, I get it. But no. Look at page after page, day after day, of news stories all about women, all by women, and you see how gendered "news" POV, authorship, subject matter is. It's enough to make one question patriarchy or something. Hmm. [Ed Note: send Valentine to Ping.]

And nothing specific to point at, but I've really enjoyed reading through Sylvia Paull's blog.