Archive for May, 2011
Housekeeping for hypocrites
by westwood It’s a Monday, which means all of you already want a distraction from the drudgery of your job. Monday is also the day that upper-middle class people have the housecleaners come by (you know, the ones who have the manicured lawn in the suburbs, but don’t enough money for the live-in nanny and [...]
Filed under: feminism, hypocrisy | 10 Comments
Tags: America, beyonce, Fargo, feminism, housecleaners, housekeeping, hypocrisy, irony, Midwest, Minnesota, Moorhead, North Dakota, we rule the world
Getting Hitch’d
by westwood So I was reading an issue of Vanity Fair that happened to drop into my unsuspecting hands. Which led me to read another issue. Then another. And another. (no, I probably wouldn’t admit that I.R.L.) And you know what I realized? Out of all this greasy-fingered perusing into the addictive and intrusive details [...]
Filed under: existentialism | 9 Comments
Tags: atheism, cancer, chris hitchens, christopher hitchens, death, existentialism, hitch, logic, occam's razor, ockhams' razor, philosopher, philosophy, smoking, vanity fair
by westwood Today, ladies and gentlecreatures, we are going to talk about definitions. Because in Uganda, they’re going a little crazy and trying to kill (or at least imprison for life) all the homogays (and jail time for anybody who knows a ‘mo but refuses to out them). So first things first, housekeeping. SPEND ONE [...]
Filed under: same-sex stuff | 8 Comments
Tags: anti-homosexual bill, arizona robbins, avaaz, bisexual, Burnaby, callie torres, Canada, corrective rape, definitions, distinction, execution, gay, grey's anatomy, harvey milk, homophobia, imprisonment, lbtq, lesbian, LGBT, petition, philosophy, queer, rant, uganda, uganda bill
