August 23, 2012
When the Rape Debate Hits Home
Filed by Mark Segal | August 23, 2012 | 5:30 PM |My friend Jan was raped. The trauma was so great that she ended up taking her own life. This week I've watched the "debate" about rape unfold in the news thanks to a mindless, ignorant, ideological congressman from Missouri.Read More
Nebraska Police: Lesbian 'Hate Crime' Attack Was Staged
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 23, 2012 | 4:30 PM |Last July I wrote about an incident in Nebraska in which a lesbian told police that three men broke into her house, bound her wrists, and carved the word "dyke" into her skin. Now police say the incident was apparently staged. Read More
Red Ribbons & Mosquitos
Filed by D Gregory Smith | August 23, 2012 | 3:00 PM |West Nile will probably not become the epidemic that AIDS did. Because mosquitoes don't discriminate. They bite everyone.Read More
The New Welfare Queens
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 23, 2012 | 1:00 PM |The Romney/Ryan campaign has resurrected Reagan's "Welfare Queen." It would be laughable, if they weren't serious, if the stakes weren't so high, and if there weren't so likely to get away with it.Read More
He Doesn't Know Much About Naked Women
Filed by Bil Browning | August 23, 2012 | 12:00 PM |When it comes time to answer his $5,000 question, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant Michael Emrpic is stumped by a topic he admits he doesn't know much about.Read More
It's All Greek to Me
Filed by Leslie Robinson | August 23, 2012 | 11:00 AM |Last night I picked up Arthur Cotterell's The Encyclopedia of Mythology. Now there's a guarantee you won't read any further.Read More
Sweetmeats Edition [What You Need to Know]
Filed by Joseph Gentile | August 23, 2012 | 10:00 AM |Farmer Joseph Watson of Mayfield, Ky. couldn't afford the crippling price of corn. But, the Southern farmer had a sweet idea. Why not treat his 1,400 corn-fed cattle to candy? Surely enough, they ate it up. Hungry? Here's what you need to know!Read More
Gender New-tral
Filed by Joseph Gentile | August 23, 2012 | 9:30 AM |Micah explains for cisgendered folks about the idiosyncrasies of identifying as both asexual, and agender; preferring a body image that embraces gender-neutrality after laser hair removal, a double mastectomy, light hormone therapy, and rejecting pronouns that didn't fit "they."Read More
But Your Ears Said 'Yes'
Filed by Joseph Gentile | August 23, 2012 | 9:00 AM |Singer/songwriter Taylor Ferrera believes it's about time voters learned what's "legitimate rape" exactly. In no uncertain terms, she calmly, and clearly, lists a litany of what does (and mostly doesn't) amount to "legitimate rape," as determined by "Republicans who've never experienced raped." Read More
