Tag: Popular Culture
Because Your Uterus Is Your Business
We’ve been telling you how the Florida legislature, which is currently pushing through 18 different bills to restrict abortion, is making women’s uteruses their business. And how State Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) pointed out that if his wife’s uterus were incorporated, the big-business fat cats in the legislature would leave it alone (and, I might add, give it tax breaks). Republicans were so upset at Randolph’s casual use of the correct name for his wife’s lady parts that they formally scolded him, citing the delicate ears of legislative pages.
Randolph recently appeared on Rachel Maddow’s show, and she was particularly taken with the new web site, www.incorporatemyuterus.com, which seeks to establish exactly whose business a woman’s uterus is. The site even offers articles of incorporation. Before you visit, be thinking of the official name for your incorporated uterus, as you will need to supply it on the form.
Verbatim
When astronomers make fun of us, they’re making fun of the human suffering that leads people to seek answers. People do get comfort and wisdom from astrology — and science gives us Prozac.
– Eric Francis, editor of PlanetWaves.net, explaining why even though reports claim that the Earth’s wobble has thrown zodiac signs off by about a month, he’ll stick with astrology over astronomy.
Bill Maher Give Oprah a Reality Check. Let’s Hope She Cashes It
I don’t love Bill Maher but the man knocked it out of the park with this one.
Verbatim
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
Aaron Sorkin, playwright and screenwriter, answering Palin’s Facebook update in which she challenged the legitimacy of critics of her killing and dismembering a caribou on her reality show. Sorkin added, “I’m able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don’t watch snuff films and you make them. You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun…That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain. You knew there’d be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully.”
Happy Birthday, Jon Stewart!
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In honor of one of the only people who lets us answer the question, “Is it just me or…?” with, “No, there are others who get it. We are not alone!” we offer this clip. One viewer called this performance the greatest rendition since Tina Fey did Sarah Palin. We agree, and wish Jon Stewart a very happy birthday today!
Palin’s Viewers Can’t Stick With Things Either
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The rank of the reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” in its second episode. The premier ranked 10th for its week but the follow-up show pulled only 3.04 million viewers, or less than 1 percent of the population of the United States.
Why Palin Shouldn’t Run, as Told by a Conservative
Like many of you, we have been a bit dispirited since the midterm elections. But one thing cheers us, and that’s the thought of, as my Facebook friend put it, conservatives eating their own kind.
At the right-wing blog, TownHall, columnist Mona Charen lays out her reasons why Sarah Palin should not run for president, and by extension, why no one should vote for her.
The Republican nominee should be someone with vast and impressive experience in government and the private sector — and a proven record.
Charen: ‘Palin compares herself to Reagan. But Reagan didn’t mud wrestle with the press.’After the 2008 campaign revealed her weaknesses on substance, Palin was advised by those who admire her natural gifts to bone up on policy and devote herself to governing Alaska successfully. Instead, she quit her job as governor after two and a half years, published a book (another is due next week), and seemed to chase money and empty celebrity. Now, rather than being able to highlight the accomplishments of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, we get “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” another cheesy entrant in the reality show genre. She’d so much rather be out dog sledding than in some “dull political office,” she tells the audience. File that.
