http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog sex. politics. rock'n'roll. film. comics. lipgloss. monsters. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:50:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en possible spoilers These are the last words in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and they're so gloriously cocky spilling from the lips of Brad Pitt as Tarantino's doppelganger, Lt. Aldo Raine: brash, foul-mouthed, scarred and uglied up and from an unsexy part of the USA and constantly smirking, unruffled by anything that ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/22/i-think-this-might-be-my-masterpiece/ Maybe you do, I don’t know. I do. It means that every time you hear it mentioned you miss something different—a sight, a smell, a sound—like beads dangling from trees as far uptown as Loyola, that special lower Decatur street aroma of beer, sweat, vomit, Irish coffee and the Mississippi, the far-off ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/19/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans/ Watching the Super Bowl today? Think women have the right to control their own damn bodies? Or just hate Focus on the Family and James Dobson? Join the Super Bowl Tailgate for Choice party. Donate at least $5 to a prochoice organization today in honor of the Focus on the Family anti-abortion ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/07/uteruses-arent-political-footballs/ More GRITtv http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/02/06/test-2/ It's Blog for Choice Day. And this year, a year many of us thought might actually be a good one for sexual and reproductive rights, has turned out to be a very lousy one indeed. We saw Democrats force the Stupak amendment into an otherwise fairly decent House health ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/01/22/free-abortion-on-demand/ To Democrats: GROW A PAIR Seriously? At this time last year not only did we just have a new president that we were all excited about, we also had a brand-new super-exciting majority in the Senate. 58 votes! SO COOL! Oh yeah, that's right. We've had 60 votes for a couple of ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2010/01/21/i-have-a-message-from-the-ghost-of-lyndon-johnson/ I wrote something for Global Comment today—should be up tomorrow—about the decade, the politics of it all, and how it was the decade that Americans woke up and got involved again. Maybe that’s me projecting, though, because the arc of the last ten years for me more than anything else is ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/12/31/its-gonna-be-a-happy-new-year/ You know, over and over, lefties and liberals have told feminists that they have to look beyond sexism and abortion rights. Hell, I've been one of them. I criticized feminists during the primaries who seemed to excuse blatant racism from the Clinton campaign while freaking out about Obama calling a ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/11/12/stupak-and-sexism/ And Congress is voting to let him make that choice. The amendment, which you can download and read in full here, would do three things. First, it would codify the Hyde Amendment provisions in the bill so that the ban on federal funds being used for abortions besides those resulting from ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/11/07/bart-stupak-thinks-he-knows-what-i-can-do-with-my-body/ No, really, I'm not kidding, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. I questioned the prize committee's definition of the word "peace" when Al Gore won it for environmental activism, which seemed a wee bit of a stretch for me. This time around, the committee at least seems to be thinking in ... http://ohyouprettythings.net/blog/2009/10/09/some-thoughts-on-obamas-nobel-prize/