Hurricane Michele?

Comic Making Fun of Michele Bachmann

I know that making fun of the utterly ridiculous things that come out of the mouths of Tea Partiers is somewhere between art form and cliché.  The fact that this is particularly true of the group’s female members is especially dismaying.

And yet, as was recently pointed out in the case of Christine O’Donnell crying “sexism” over being called to the carpet for saying … well, completely stupid things, they keep doing it.

And Michele Bachmann, who for some reason is being viewed as a serious contender for the 2012 Republican nomination, has really kept the ball rolling with …

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Internet Wars and Lara Logan

Photo of Lara Logan Shortly Before Sexual Assault in Egypt

Lara Logan, a news correspondent for CBS, was beaten savagely and sexually assaulted while covering the recent chaos in Egypt. Basically, Logan was separated from her camera crew and security staff in the near-mob conditions at Tahrir Square following the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and was brutalized in plain sight among rioters before being assisted by Egyptian soldiers and a group of women.

Wow. This is a terrible, terrible story on hundreds of different levels.
Perhaps the most disturbing repercussion, though, involves the petty, mean-spirited, and completely inappropriate internet battles that are turning both a nation’s upheaval and a woman’s private pain into immature, insensitive interwebs spats.

From AOL News, which recently highlighted three of these disturbing pissing contests:

1. NPR readers versus NPR readers
Reader discussion became so brutal on NPR that the Two-Way …

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Could Sarah Palin Just Apologize For the Gabby Giffords Crosshairs Already?

Map of Palin Crosshairs

Sarah Palin has apparently been hiding behind her computer screen as it seems that her handlers have noted a correlation between her opening her mouth and her being pegged as a moron. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has shown, however, that the internet is not necessarily the insulation that Palin perhaps thought it was.

Do I blame Sarah Palin for …

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Planned Parenthood Gift Cards?

Picture of Planned Parenthood Logo and Blank Gift Certificate

Okay, I have to start off by saying that I think Planned Parenthood has done a great deal of good.  Whether parents like it or not, kids are having sex at ever-younger ages, and having the means and information to protect themselves from pregnancy and STIs is invaluable.  I still find it almost entertaining to hear Sarah Palin’s sound bytes about abstinence-only education being the …

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