Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - Posts
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Greg Beato, my go-to source for weird insights into mass culture, has a very funny analysis of the DIY show Man Caves over at the Smart Set. The show is premised on the idea that men need man-friendly rooms in which to be manly, and the hosts help regular guys turn ordinary rooms into testosterone-rich dens featuring, say, stripper poles and motorcycles. But Beato thinks the masculine showboating is just the price of entry to an aesthetic realm typically reserved for women and gay men:
if today’s men don’t seem quite as grown-up as their grandfathers did, they show a much greater flair for... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Stats sweetheart Nate Silver ran abortion-rate data from the CDC and has found that states with higher numbers of people who identify as pro-life have lower rates of abortion than pro-choice states. But, this finding is somewhat deceptive. As anyone who receives Guttmacher Institute press releases knows, 87 percent of counties do not have abortion providers,
and the CDC data does not always count state of residence, only the
state where the abortion is performed. Additionally, since CDC abortion
data is self-reported by each state... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)
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Yesterday, Playboy.com posted a provocative story: "So Right It's Wrong."
The piece was written by Guy Cimbalo, and its premise was to target
those conservative women that he would like to, as he put it, "hate fuck."
But if you click on that Playboy.com link, you'll find the piece is no
longer there. And that's because the blogosphere went crazy after Playboy published it, going so far as to call for a boycott, and Playboy pulled it.
If you want to read the piece in full, conservative blogger Caleb Howe has reproduced it... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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A second friend recalls her visit to Dr. George Tiller's clinic:
In July 1993, my husband and I received the worst news about our son's impending birth: He suffered from multiple, severe fetal anomalies, both internal and external, thought to be the result of a rare blood disorder. If he could survive his early birth at 24 weeks he most likely would not survive his blood cancer beyond the age of 9.
After several years of trying to conceive our second child, the news could not have been more devastating. When we heard the news, I had been in Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC for more than two weeks, hooked up to a subcutaneous pump delivering a medication to stop contractions. While still reeling from the shock, we were told we could take our chances and let the baby be born, but that the state would be forced to intervene if we did not then take every measure to keep our son alive. Or, we could consider two late-term abortion clinics—one in Wichita, Kan., the other in Holland! Our initial thoughts were...
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