Please help Phyllis Chesler keep you safe by sending her money now

Let’s rush to Dr. Chesler’s aid with baskets — and an e-mail Inbox — filled with money to help her out. (In the film clip above, Uncle Billy arrives with the basket of money at 3:36.) Phyllis Chesler, who has fought for equality for women and against totalitarianism and anti-semitism, needs financial help immediately to …

I've been craving Pattymelt!

I love those nice young gay men in Chicago at HillBuzz with all my heart and I love, love, LOVE their guest blogger, Patricia Melton, whose nickname is “Pattymelt.” Well! It’s been months and months since her last report from the wilds of Ohio and I have been craving me some Pattymelt something fierce. So, …

The exercise to do to get smart

This clip includes the intro music for all five seasons of “Get Smart” and the 1989 reunion movie: Fun fact: “Get Smart” is my father’s favorite comedy. I have learned the hard way that I have to exercise to think clearly and function well, and these rewards are so obvious to me that I dread …

For stronger bones — jump!

Thanks to Little Miss Attila, I was browsing the New York Times and came across a piece on new research on what exercise is best for making your bones stronger — the last I heard it was weight-lifting and weight-bearing exercises, but newer research has a different recommendation: … the current state-of-the-science message about exercise …

Gone to lynch

Huzzah, Jenny, The Bloggess, whom I love pure and chaste from afar, is back from Japan. Before watching this video, I have to caution you that there is a reason I made up a new Internet acronym for her: PFNFNDHITN (Pee First, No Food, No Drinks, Have Inhaler and Tissues Nearby): Thank you, my dear …

Carrie Prejean made 15-20 sex videos and she was 20 at the time

MSNBC, 11/13/2009: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy When Carrie Prejean dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California USA pageant last week, she acknowledged making only one video of herself masturbating and claimed she was 17. Saying she was 17 is convenient because it means distributing the video or …

Any error will do for a smear campaign

Via Instapundit, I see that Mark Steyn is saying that the fact that it took 11 Associated Press reporters to find six extremely trivial errors — quibbles, really — in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s forthcoming autobiography, Going Rogue, which will be released on Monday, Nov. 16, shows why newspapers rapidly are becoming obsolete. I …

Understanding Obama: learn the four types of enablers of narcissists

Conservative Pup is a nurse and she was disturbed by Obama’s cold and inappropriate behavior right after the Ft. Hood mass murder — you do not do “shout outs” just before announcing a mass murder unless you are doing a comedy skit or you have a sociopathic lack of empathy. Come to find that a …