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Art Deco is in. At least when it comes to your clothes.
This is a real “shocker.”
A soldier blogs until his heart’s content.
Sweden doesn’t have any real problems.
Don’t go overboard this holiday season with your spending.
Facebook advertising won this girl the election!
This month’s must haves.
Poor Jessica Simpson. No, not really.
Kelly Clarkson is in the big time again.
This purse will set you back a couple bills.
In one final attempt to piss off Democrats everywhere, the Bush administration “is quietly cutting off birth control supplies” to poor women in Africa. According to an Op Ed piece in the New York Times, Bush and his pals threw a bone to Pro-Lifers under the guise of disapproving China’s family-planning program (a program that enforces a sometimes ruthless one-child-per-household law)
“U.S. Agency for International Development ordered six African countries to ensure that no U.S.-financed condoms, birth control pills, I.U.D.’s or other contraceptives are furnished to Marie Stopes International, a British-based aid group that operates clinics in poor countries.
The Bush administration says it took this action because Marie Stopes International works with the U.N. Population Fund in China. President Bush has cut all financing for the population fund on the — false — basis that it supports China’s family-planning program.”
Because of this birth control supply ban, Marie Stopes International estimates that “the result will be at least 157,000 additional unwanted pregnancies per year [in Africa], leading to 62,000 additional abortions and 660 women dying in childbirth.”
Whether MSI’s estimates are overestimated or not, the real issue is how the Bush administration, and many pro-life activists, believe that taking away a woman’s right to choose birth control and abortion somehow benefits her.
You take away sex education and a woman’s right to choose when and how to have a baby, you take away her basic freedom as a human being. Period.
[photo from www.doctorswithoutborders.org]
Tonight is the 2nd Presidential Debate, which is sure to be awesome (even if it’s not nearly as hyped as Palin vs. Biden’s Teeth).
The event is going to be moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, but instead of Tommy asking the questions, the debate will have a town hall format.
Which means the people get to ask the questions.
So, people of Nashville who will be sitting pretty in the town hall-y debate, if you are reading this, we have a few questions we’d like to ask the candidates. Real questions that require real answers instead of that fluff Gwen Ifill came up with (and Sarah Palin dodged) during the VP “debate.” Read More »
We’ve been scoping the Internet this morning so we could post a story that isn’t about how Congress is completely divided, or how our economy is set to implode, or how no can find a freaking job…but we just haven’t been able to find anything. At least not at 9:45 AM.
So yeah. At the moment, the world is stuck on “panic”.
But here’s a funny video that involves a baby. Whenever we want to panic, we sit back and think about cute babies and things usually go back to normal. Maybe the government should start watching more YouTube videos that involve cute little chubby baby cheeks?
PS: We’re slightly concered about what was done to this kid to make him cry on cue…
Looks like President Bush has been playing some Olympics drinking games of his own.
The Chinese are mean!
Russia takes a break. Georgia disagrees.
I didn’t think it was possible, but Jake Gyllenhaal is lookin’...ew.
In memory of Isaac Hayes…a song. About the menstrual cycle.
Britney’s back, bitches.
Cheerleading - that sh*t is dangerous!
Where has all the porn for straight women gone?
Gossip Girl has been gone too long; how about a little fix?
It’s time to give tequila another shot (pun intended).
Bored at work? This may be the best game of all time.
I love Tina Fey and her poopy perspective
20 pick-up lines for people wearing keyboard pants
I can only imagine the conversation between “Speidi” and Bush
The Michael Showalter Showalter with Michael Cera
Dude, where’s my dress?
Proving the impossible: Jimmy Fallon annoys me more than Carson Daly
The College Bucket List
The JoBros on the Big O!
Sometimes I wonder what Marilyn Manson’s diary is like
Abercrombie & Fitch “adults only” catalogue
In my last post I discussed how, despite President Bush’s claims of success within Iraq, secretarian violence continues to force Iraqis to leave their homes in fear of their lives. At least four million Iraqis have left their home country since the beginning of the war.
Leaving Iraq is only the beginning of their problems. Thanks to this large number, it is increasingly difficult for an Iraqi to gain asylum.
How difficult you may ask? Read on:
→ According to the Independent, Iraqi asylum applicants within the European Union rose by 98% between 2006 and 2007. In 2006 there were 19,375 and in 2007 there were 38,286.
→ Within many countries traditionally known for their openness to refugees such as Sweden, the saturation of the system brought on partly by the deepening Iraqi refugee crisis, is resulting in a backlash. Read More »
