http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog sex. politics. rock'n'roll. film. comics. lipgloss. monsters. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:20:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi all. I doubt there are very many regular readers here anymore, if any. I've been shamefully neglecting this blog. I'm just too busy to put myself into regularly updating a project like this. I still write plenty, but it's either for publication somewhere else or in much looser form, on ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/06/25/blogging./ I'm collecting here the best explainer posts, widgets, and videos on the health care legislation that just passed. Immediately after the bill made it through, I started getting questions from friends who are politically aware enough to know it was happening, but not nearly as hooked-in as I am--and I ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/03/25/health-care-explainers/ possible spoilers These are the last words in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and they're so gloriously cocky spilling from the lips of Brad Pitt as Tarantino's doppelganger, Lt. Aldo Raine: brash, foul-mouthed, scarred and uglied up and from an unsexy part of the USA and constantly smirking, unruffled by anything that ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/22/i-think-this-might-be-my-masterpiece/ Maybe you do, I don’t know. I do. It means that every time you hear it mentioned you miss something different—a sight, a smell, a sound—like beads dangling from trees as far uptown as Loyola, that special lower Decatur street aroma of beer, sweat, vomit, Irish coffee and the Mississippi, the far-off ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/19/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans/ Watching the Super Bowl today? Think women have the right to control their own damn bodies? Or just hate Focus on the Family and James Dobson? Join the Super Bowl Tailgate for Choice party. Donate at least $5 to a prochoice organization today in honor of the Focus on the Family anti-abortion ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/07/uteruses-arent-political-footballs/ More GRITtv http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/06/test-2/ It's Blog for Choice Day. And this year, a year many of us thought might actually be a good one for sexual and reproductive rights, has turned out to be a very lousy one indeed. We saw Democrats force the Stupak amendment into an otherwise fairly decent House health ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/01/22/free-abortion-on-demand/ To Democrats: GROW A PAIR Seriously? At this time last year not only did we just have a new president that we were all excited about, we also had a brand-new super-exciting majority in the Senate. 58 votes! SO COOL! Oh yeah, that's right. We've had 60 votes for a couple of ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/01/21/i-have-a-message-from-the-ghost-of-lyndon-johnson/ I wrote something for Global Comment today—should be up tomorrow—about the decade, the politics of it all, and how it was the decade that Americans woke up and got involved again. Maybe that’s me projecting, though, because the arc of the last ten years for me more than anything else is ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/12/31/its-gonna-be-a-happy-new-year/ You know, over and over, lefties and liberals have told feminists that they have to look beyond sexism and abortion rights. Hell, I've been one of them. I criticized feminists during the primaries who seemed to excuse blatant racism from the Clinton campaign while freaking out about Obama calling a ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/11/12/stupak-and-sexism/