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So there's this principled men's rights activist douchey anti-feminist fame-chasing self-promoter who, among pursuing other important legal issues involving feminists ruining the world for men, has been on this asinine crusade to challenge the constitutionality of ladies' nights at bars. But, sadly, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected his argument . The court, with evident amusem...
Shakespeare's Sister - 9:04 a.m.
(TW for discussion of depression) I went to the doctor last Friday (I went to see a couple of my doctors, actually, but this post concerns my visit with my internist). She recently replaced another doctor who had been part of that practice for several decades, and had been the only internist I had seen more than once as an adult. This new one, Dr. L., has had the unenviable task of taking on a lo...
Shakespeare's Sister - 8:24 a.m.
[Image from last night's show: While chefstronaut Buzz Aldrin regales his dinner companions with Tang-affirming stories about Tatooine, all celebrichefjudicator Anthony Bourdain can think about is Jawas.] Last night's episode will be precisely batonneted, so if you haven't seen it, and don't want any spoilers, pack your knives and go... ...
Shakespeare's Sister - 7:43 a.m.
"The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. ... The only evidence for Obama's Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years." — Ann Coulter . Ann, sweetie, you've got to dial back the hyperbole. I know you...
Shakespeare's Sister - 7:43 a.m.
[Trigger warning for violence.] Yesterday afternoon, as you've no doubt heard, a 43-year-old man named James J. Lee entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, MD, took hostages, and, after a four-hour standoff, was shot and killed by police. Lee, who identified as an environmental activist, though his activism seems largely to have consisted of protesting the Discovery Cha...
Shakespeare's Sister - 7:25 a.m.
. . . that my personal spammers started getting a little more creative with their names. I am so over m#rwzna;eodnf. This morning I got a very important communication by electronic mail from Mrs. Rhoda Kammel. Ok, it's not exactly Wildean wit, but it beats m#rwzna;eodnf all to hell. ...
Shakespeare's Sister - 7:25 a.m.
Hello Lefties!!! So Lefty's calmed down a little bit over the summer, but rest assured because as of midnight September 2nd 2010, we are BACK and we are ready to grow. Last year Lefty's established itself as a progressive media force at Notre Dame and across Indiana. With more than 70,000 hits (most of those were accumulated in 3 months) we have proven the potential for this blog. M...
Lefty's Last Cry - Wed 11:26 p.m. - 5 clicks 
What's your favorite holiday destination? I am a vacationer of extremes: I either like to be in the center of a big, bustling city (London, New York, etc.) or in a small, quiet place along some body of water big enough in which to swim, even if it's the time of year where swimming isn't advised. The Indiana Dunes, L.A., Nova Scotia, Siesta Key, Door County, Leith...I don't care. Just get me n...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 4:21 p.m. - 4 clicks
Why is this not called "Who's the Teach?" Because it totes should be. [Image Description: A picture of actor Tony Danza in a shirt and tie, next to a trailer for his new A&E reality TV show "Teach: Tony Danza," accompanied by the following show description: "Long before his iconic acting career, which includes roles in 'Taxi' and 'Who's The Boss,' Tony Danza received a degree in History Educ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 4:21 p.m.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s hands rest on the railing of a boat during their tour of St. Andrews Bay in Panama City Beach, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. ( Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 3:40 p.m.
See Deeky's archive of all previous Conniving & Sinister strips here . [In which Liss reimagines the long-running comic "Frank & Ernest," about two old straight white guys "telling it like it is," as a fat feminist white woman (Liss) and a biracial queerbait (Deeky) telling it like it actually is from their perspectives. Hilarity ensues.] ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 2:43 p.m.
Michael Joseph Gross for Vanity Fair : " Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury ." It's terrible for a couple of reasons. One, because Sarah Palin is the worst. Except, and two, she's the worst for reasons that aren't even in this article. No, she's not the worst because she's a bad tipper and reportedly has the unmitigated temerity to have loud fights with her husband. And she's not the worst j...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 1:24 p.m.
CNN: Go shopping; change the world . Basically, there's this new cell phone application (CauseWorld) that sends you advertisements in exchange for which corporations make tiny donations to [mostly] non-controversial charities. [Edit: Although see the comments concerning the very problematic Autism Speaks, one of the 29 charities CauseWorld lists on its website here .] You open the app and it t...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 12:46 p.m.
This blogaround brought to you by Shaxco, makers of Lissy's Pirate Gear, for all your deck-swabbing needs! Andy: Should Obama Be Worried About Growing GOP Support for Gays? Scatx: Girl, you are TOO tall to ride the school bus Advocate: Tasmania to Recognize Marriages Roschelle: Who Gets Credit For Iraq... Joe. My. God: SAS To Host In-Flight Gay Wedding Leave your links in comment...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 12:46 p.m.
Elle sent me this article (which is about the failure of this summer's rom-coms to draw female viewers to theaters in large numbers) with the note: "Girl, I swear the last paragraph was written just for you." LOL! The last paragraph: "Women like today's bromances better than the movies aimed at them. They're funnier. They're smarter. Especially Judd Apatow's movies. He understands women. 'I Lo...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 12:00 p.m.
[Trigger warning for body policing, gender policing, fat hatred, and dehumanization.] by Shaker Erica Approaching the newsstand this morning, I had a suspicion I wasn't going to like what I was about to read. [Image Description: The cover of Metro with a "headless fatty" color photograph of a fat white man from neck to waist, with his arms wrapped around himself, covering his breasts. ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 11:30 a.m.
Dear Time : Does the news that "unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities" and work full-time jobs have slightly higher salaries "than those of the guys in their peer group" really warrant the headline "Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top"? Leaving aside your crass, thinly veiled sexual reference, I fail utterly to see how a very small cohort of working women making more ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 11:30 a.m.
Sometimes the best way to stay in the closet is to stand in the shadows of those who came out. Least, that's how it worked for you while attending an all-male college. You lived with the theater group, worked with the GSA, and made sure to pull out the I'm gay-notgay-bisexual-androgyne-anythingbuttrans card whenever possible. Anything to avoid the truth, right? All in all, not a bad way to...
Bilerico-Indiana - Wed 11:29 a.m. - 2 clicks
"I was asked recently which of the political leaders I had met had most integrity. I listed George near the top. He had genuine integrity and as much political courage as any leader I ever met." — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , on former US President George W. Bush, in his memoirs. Blair also calls Mondo Fucko a "true idealist" who is "very smart" while having "immense simplicity in ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 9:49 a.m.
Yesterday , I gave this New Left Media video a quick link, but didn't have time to do a transcript for it. Shaker Mudkip was kind enough to transcribe all the dialogue; this morning I refined it and now the entire transcript is available here . Thanks very much to Mudkip for the help! [The hat tip goes to Gabe , whose commentary I'll just second.] ...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 9:25 a.m.
And Dahlia Lithwick explains one of the many reasons why: The Ginsburgs not only prevailed at the 10th Circuit but also obtained—as Justice Ginsburg has detailed elsewhere—the solicitor general's Exhibit E, a "printout from the Department of Defense computer" that listed, title by title, every provision of the U.S. Code "containing differentiations based upon sex-related criteria." According to...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 8:22 a.m.
And he declared an end to the combat mission in Iraq. (Gee, where have I heard that before ?) The full transcript of the speech is here . My response is mixed. It was successful for the reasons Steve details here , and yet I still found the bile rise on the reiteration of the lie that "A war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency." That there were no weapons in Iraq is no...
Shakespeare's Sister - Wed 8:22 a.m.
Ken Mehlman holds the honor of being the highest-ranking GOP official to eventually come out as gay, plain and simple. Top GOP officials have invited him into their lives, made emotional connections with him, and generally built a solid network with a guy who at one point was the linchpin of the Rove-run GOP strategy. Like him or not, he is an incredible asset for LGBTQ rights, and he's read...
Bilerico-Indiana - Sun 10:46 a.m.
And so concludes another great week of LGBT news and opinions on Bilerico Project. This week we ranged from North Korea's gay Facebook page and Ken Mehlman's coming out to vacationing with the "bearded lady." What else did we feature? Great posts like these: Sunday Save Chi Chiz! Filed by: Andrew Belonsky Fort Eustis Troops Punished For Refusing to Attend Christian Concert Filed b...
Bilerico-Indiana - Sat 3:44 p.m.
I cant believe it. More recalls from Toyota brand vehicles. Maybe just maybe they should have spent the money on the new advertising of how safe they are in the quality department! It now makes all the new ads such a joke! They just recalled more than 1 million of its Corolla and Matrix cars, [...]...
Manfredeye - Fri 8:08 a.m.
If you're a Hoosier LGBT person, you've probably heard of longtime activist and philanthropist Joseph F. Miller. He was a large donor to the Democratic Party and HIV/AIDS organizations. He supported and encouraged almost every Indiana state-level organization. He was also a personal friend of mine and Jerame's - as well as some of our other Indiana contributors. Joe was generous to a fault wh...
Bilerico-Indiana - Thu 8:28 p.m. - 43 clicks
The next time somebody asks why I don't attend church I'm going to show them "Where the Rubber Hits the Road" ( Part 1 , Part 2 ) from Catholic Exchange. A trans woman looking for answers asks if her transition - done in the face of certain death from stress - is justified and what she should do regarding practical matters such as bathroom usage, showers, jail accommodations, etc., and ...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 24
Clearly Lefty's has died down over the summer, because an issue that has undoubtedly been on all of our minds has been left without discussion. I'm going to change that. Park51. Cordoba House. Or, as it is more commonly known, the Ground Zero Mosque. Call it what you will, the hot topic in recent news has been this 13-story Islamic community center, planned to be built near the site where th...
Lefty's Last Cry - Aug 23 - 2 clicks
While the big news at Bilerico ranch was Jerame's new job with the National Stonewall Democrats and our upcoming move to Washington DC , the rest of the TBP crew kept us up on all the news while adding their own spin. Check out these great posts from last week: Sunday Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka To Be Gay Dads, Heroes Filed by: Andrew Belonsky Even If Your Hands Tremble F...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 21
Good news for those of you who wanted to see my presentation at the BlogIndiana conference on Friday but weren't in the Indianapolis area. The conference has had enough interest in the session that they'll be broadcasting it live online for free . The session, " Blogging About Issue Politics ," is scheduled for 11:30am Eastern time on Friday, August 20th (this Friday!) . I'll be dis...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 18 - 3 clicks
I announced yesterday afternoon that Jerame has taken a job with the National Stonewall Democrats and that means there will be some big changes in our lives. The biggest change for both of us is that we'll be moving out of state. We're leaving Indiana. Dozens of you have e-mailed since that post went live asking what the big move will mean for Bilerico Project. One of our selling points ha...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 17 - 3 clicks
Dear wonderful friends and allies in the quest for satellite voting on campus, Many of you have listened to me or Jennifer Pike/Anne Rayne/Colin Diersing discuss why we so desperately need satellite voting on campus during midterm elections. A lot of us remember what it was like in 2008 to stand in line, weeks before Election Day, at the HPER knowing that we were about to vote in a historic ele...
Lefty's Last Cry - Aug 16
The National Stonewall Democrats announced two new hires this morning and one of them will be very familiar to Projectors. Bilerico Project co-founder Jerame Davis has accepted a position as the org's Affiliate Services Coordinator. Linsey Pecikonis will be the group's new Director of Communications. "I'm very excited to be adding Jerame and Linsey to the National Stonewall staff. Jerame...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 16
Contributor Sean Martin's five part illustrated series "Elliot" ( Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3 , Part 4 , & Part 5 ) wasn't the only fantastic LGBT content on Bilerico Project this week. Did you see the other great posts like these? Sunday 'Legalize Trans' campaign takes on American Apparel, gender equality issues Filed by: Matt Comer An Open Letter To My Fellow Straight Christia...
Bilerico-Indiana - Aug 14
