Archive | October 25, 2012

Tournament of Rock IV: the KISS pod

In the previous match we saw a mild upset, as Bad Company nudged out Don Henley. In Alanis Morissette’s world, that’s ironic. BadCo advances to the Sweet 16. Up next: pod #6, where we have posted urgent testosterone warnings. #7 Seed: KISS Bad English Genesis (post-Peter Gabriel – 1978-forward) Nickelback Whitesnake KISS Rooted in the […]

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The GOP and God-sanctioned rape

I live in Indiana with Richard Mourdock, the man who believes rape and the resulting pregnancy are parts of God’s plan. I have never been raped, but I know something about rape. When my mother was in her sixties, she was raped twice by a serial rapist who was never caught. My daughter was sexually assaulted […]

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It's time for the feds to consider RICO charges against the Boy Scouts of America

Back in September Kim Christensen and Jason Felch of the Los Angeles Times broke an absolute blockbuster of a story: the Boy Scouts of America have, for decades, been providing cover for pedophiles in its ranks. Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the […]

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The seven kinds of rape (thx to the GOP for sorting this out)

Back in the old days rape was rape. Or, at most, there were two kinds. There was the “put on a ski mask and rape her at knifepoint” type and there was the “she said she was 18″ statutory type. Which wasn’t really rape at all, because, I mean, LOOK at her. And she really […]

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