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Put some decorative gourds out, jerkface.

By latching on to O’Donnell’s growing presence, the Rove-Boehner-McConnell establishment can claim it represents struggling middle-class Tea Partiers rather than Wall Street potentates and corporate titans. O’Donnell’s value is the same as that other useful idiot, Michael Steele, who remains at the Republican National Committee only because he can wave the banner of “diversity” over a virtually all-white party that alternately demonizes African-Americans, Latinos, gays and Muslims.

How Nancy Drew influence 3 female supreme court justices.

Even though they lost the war, the south won an ideological victory – convincing people that the war was fought for economic reasons and states rights rather than the enslavement and torture of human beings.

Suits, shirts, trousers, t-shirts, casual trousers for butch women.

The Tea Kettle movement can’t have a positive impact on the country because it has both misdiagnosed America’s main problem and hasn’t even offered a credible solution for the problem it has identified. How can you take a movement seriously that says it wants to cut government spending by billions of dollars but won’t identify the specific defense programs, Social Security, Medicare or other services it’s ready to cut — let alone explain how this will make us more competitive and grow the economy?

"By now, most people have heard about the voter fraud allegations being leveled against Charlie White, the embattled Republican candidate for secretary of state." The story is grimmer than it first appears – he does need to be prosecuted for voter fraud.

"The "No Wedding, No Womb" campaign makes a classic mistake: shaming women for their sexuality instead of asking how to improve outcomes for children of single-parent households."

Report sexism directed at female candidates in the media – this project is tracking incidents all over the country. "Widespread sexism in the media is one of the top problems facing women. A highly toxic media environment persists for women candidates, often negatively affecting their campaigns. The ever-changing media landscape creates an unmonitored echo chamber, often allowing damaging comments to exist without accountability."

A map showing the racial integration (or distinct lack thereof, actually) of the city of Indianapolis.

Revised book titles for well known classics – "Too Long" for "Infinite Jest" is perfect. And "Dude, Where's My Cat?" for "The Wind-up Bird Chronicals" almost made me fall off my chair.

"According to Leslie Hanks, one of Amendment 62's authors, it would make certain forms of the pill and other contraceptive devices illegal. "Many of the oral contraceptives have an action that makes the womb inhospitable to a developing embryo and, hence, the new living, growing baby is prevented from residing where his or her creator intended until birth." – fucking crazy teabagger forcedBirth shit.

Someone needs to reign in local goverments and let them know that it is NOT illegal – in fact it is a right protected by the first amendment – to take photos in public of public property.

A fantastic read – "They’re full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry’s medals and Barack Obama’s Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about[.]"

If they attempted to do this in Indianapolis, I would move. I am not kidding. I would NOT live in a community that didn't have a municipally-owned and operated public library system.

Interesting historical of the design and iconography of the women's suffrage movements in the UK and US, mainly intended as a guide for purchasing items alleging to be authentic on eBay.

Presented to all suffragettes after imprisonment, the design was based on the portcullis symbol of the House of Commons, the arrow convict symbol is enamelled in the purple, white and green colours of the suffragettes.