A found poem made up of song lyrics for this week’s www.redroom.com blog competition. My blog from last week, “The Sneeze”, was noted on their website as an honourable mention. Yeah!
A found poem made up of song lyrics for this week’s www.redroom.com blog competition. My blog from last week, “The Sneeze”, was noted on their website as an honourable mention. Yeah!
My reflections on Miep Gies’ death as well as Wendy Soltero’s would-be 32st birthday.
The two-bedroom apartment is sparkling clean, so clean that Mr. Smith can eat food off the floor if it drops. He often drops food; he gets excited and his hands shake. Food falls, he picks it up and places it in his mouth. After, he cleans obsessively, frantically, scrubbing the walls, scouring the kitchen, bleach [...]
In spite of its horrifying nature, I must thank you for this post, Ms. Sax. It is a testament to the woman-unfriendly world we live in that these disgusting crimes against humanity take place right under the authorities’ noses. It appears that women’s health and safety quite simply is not a general concern for men, [...]
Dear Anti-Gay Marriage Supporters:
How many times *were* you dropped on your head as a child?
Sincerely,
Sezin
America, I trusted you with my life and you stole my innocence.
America, no dollars nor credit card cents, October 28, 2000.
I can’t stand my own memories.
America, when will you end your genocides?
Go fuck yourself with your right to bear arms.
My uterus has been poisoned since your doctors put their hands in me.
It’s hard to write [...]
Thank you, Ms. Anders, for speaking out against Polanski’s crimes when so many staple figures in Hollywood are doing just the opposite. For such a straightforward case, my mind is boggled by all of the Polanski supporters who cling to any little nuance in order to make a case in his support.
The facts remain that [...]
This photo makes me love Brad and Angelina even more! I mean, how many other stars would smile so graciously and lovingly, allowing a fan to photograph them in public? Very, very few.
I have so much admiration for these two and the work they do in support of human rights worldwide, and even more so [...]
Mr. Farr,
There are very many millions of people in this world who have had horrible lives and worse experiences than Mr. Polanski’s, and that has not necessarily led them into a life of pedophilia and jail-dodging. Other comments here have noted Charles Manson, who has an inextricable link with Mr. Polanski. Using your train of [...]
Thank you, Ms. York, for this refreshing and down-to-earth look at the reality of Roman Polanski’s arrest. I’m so disgusted by all the Polanski apologists, Applebaum being only one of many, and I wonder if there will be campaigns in the near future to boycott those who support his release.
In college gender studies courses we [...]
I am stunned beyond belief at all the support being offered Roman Polanski, convicted child raper and jail dodger, after his long overdue arrest in Zurich last week. What kind of world do we live in that just because a person is a celebrity and a holocaust survivor he is somehow seen as being exempt [...]
Shame on the Swiss? Shame on you, Ms. Shore.
It is absolutely shocking that the co-founder of Women Overseas for Equality would take the side of a convicted pedophile and rapist. I am apalled at your empty arguments in defense of a man who has been running from the law for decades.
I would be very curious [...]
As an American living abroad, I was mortified to see this display of idiocy on the international news. Do the Republicans have any concept of how embarassing they are and what damage they are doing to what was the slowly improving image of the USA worldwide?
President Obama has been trying to repair the damage done [...]
Under these kinds of conditions, the word “choice” becomes a loaded one. Does anyone really think that a young girl/woman/mother has aspirations to sell her body for cash? Prostitution is borne from a condition of supply and demand. So long as there are perverts…I mean, men, who are willing to pay money for a sexual [...]
The Power Of Fear: Lessons From Ft. Hood
As a sidenote to the actual point of your blog, what I find disturbing about this story is the fact that after he shot all those people, the first thing the media started doing was talking about his “ideological” and “religious” motivations, presumably because he is Muslim. The next day a white man opened fire [...]
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