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Minnesota blogs you can feel free to avoid if you're liberal
North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it's okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse.MORE »
No, it isn't sexist
I am trying very hard to see where Newsweek's choice to use Sarah Palin's Runner's World photo as their cover is a horribly sexist decision that belittles women everywhere.MORE »
Anti-immigrant neo-Nazi passed off as "grass roots"
On July 1, over at local righty superblog True North ("Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction"), Kevin Ecker decided to use his time to highlight an anti-immigration rally in Austin, Minnesota:MORE »
Margaret Anderson Kelliher is a woman, not a gossip girl
If you know enough about Minnesota politics to be reading my blog, you probably know who Margaret Anderson Kelliher is. She's the current Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, the second and longest-serving woman to hold the position. She's also one of the DFL candidates seeking to replace incumbent Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2010. She's considered one of the front-runners for the DFL nomination, along with a handful of others, like former Sen. Mark Dayton, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak (who has not officially announced, but who is widely expected to run), and former Minnesota House Minority Leader Matt Entenza. If nominated, she'd be the first woman to head a major-party gubernatorial ticket in the state's history. MORE »
Balloon boy's 'not pussified' video
One of the more bizarre sub-plots from the bizarre story that is the faked balloon voyage of Falcon Heene is the YouTube video in which Falcon and his brothers claimed to be "not pussified."
I do believe in lesbians! I do, I do!
Debbie Schussel is best known for her rabid hatred of anything that can even tangentially be connected to Islam, up to and including falafel. So it's nice to see her branching out into some good old-fashioned hatred of other things.
What has made Debbie angry? Well, it seems Disney's messing with a character.MORE »
Thoughts on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore grew a beard
I don't know if Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize quite yet, and I'm actually serious when I say he won it in no small part for simply not being George W. Bush - for seeking to reengage with the world in the sort of way that decent, non-rogue countries do. That said, who cares?MORE »
Conservative bloggers punk'd by terrorist
Like most Americans, I don’t have much time for Bill Ayers.MORE »
Polanski and the casting couch
I swear, at some point in the next few days, I will stop posting on Roman Polanski. But it shines so many interesting lights on so much of the sexism in our culture that it’s impossible to ignore it. MORE »
Not all Europeans want Polanski to go free
by Jeff Fecke | September 28, 2009 • As we noted the other night, Roman Polanski holds dual French and Polish citizenship, and both nations’ governments have been assiduously lobbying for his release, because evidently both governments believe that being famous allows you to rape kids.MORE »
