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"The religious right’s embrace of toxic masculinity is built around the idea that society has become too feminized, too soft, too girly. Women have too much power and we have to fix that by making society masculine and patriarchal again because patriarchy is awesome!
Spoiler: patriarchy is stupid"
Spoiler: patriarchy is stupid"
Undead sexist cliche: we need masculine leadership
As Jesus and John Wayne details, the religious right’s embrace of toxic masculinity is built around the idea that society has become too feminized, too soft, too girly. Women have too much po…
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December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The religious right’s embrace of toxic masculinity is built around the idea that society has become too feminized, too soft, too girly. Women have too much power and we have to fix that by making society masculine and patriarchal again because patriarchy is awesome!
Spoiler: patriarchy is stupid"
Spoiler: patriarchy is stupid"
Despite the lack of any naughty parts showing, Nikkii's body language coupled with the cover copy gives Robert Maguire's cover art an R feeling rather than PG. Or is that just me?
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Despite the lack of any naughty parts showing, Nikkii's body language coupled with the cover copy gives Robert Maguire's cover art an R feeling rather than PG. Or is that just me?
Winter is here. The snow was soon gone, the cold remained.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Winter is here. The snow was soon gone, the cold remained.
"Every Senate Republican voted for RFK. They own this, despite some of them insisted they had no idea it would get this bad. Or this bad. They knew."
Journalism in the rancid age of RFK Jr.
RFK is an anti-vax fanatic. And he gives platforms to other anti-vax fanatics. Backed by his boss because the Necrotic Toddler apparently figures MAGA will give him more love for spreading plague t…
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December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Every Senate Republican voted for RFK. They own this, despite some of them insisted they had no idea it would get this bad. Or this bad. They knew."
"It’s tempting to roll one’s eyes at women who are shocked, shocked to discover sexism in a political party led by Donald Trump. But it’s a sign of progress that these women are not responding as Schlafly did, demurely accepting their subordinate position within conservatism."
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
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December 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"It’s tempting to roll one’s eyes at women who are shocked, shocked to discover sexism in a political party led by Donald Trump. But it’s a sign of progress that these women are not responding as Schlafly did, demurely accepting their subordinate position within conservatism."
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The logical extension of "education is a moral good" is students occasionally having to take a class they hate.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The logical extension of "education is a moral good" is students occasionally having to take a class they hate.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
This is the point I keep making about how a significant percentage of people aren’t committed to good or bad — it’ll depend on who they’re looking up to, working for, whether random circumstances or a chance meeting nudge them one way or the other.
That’s not an excuse for the ones who go bad."
That’s not an excuse for the ones who go bad."
The seductive appeal of Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein knew royalty, Silicon Valley techbros, brilliant scientists, Donald Trump, and moneyed people. Ken Starr, who mismanaged sexual assault complaints when president of Baylor Universit…
frasersherman.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is the point I keep making about how a significant percentage of people aren’t committed to good or bad — it’ll depend on who they’re looking up to, working for, whether random circumstances or a chance meeting nudge them one way or the other.
That’s not an excuse for the ones who go bad."
That’s not an excuse for the ones who go bad."
"Why do the ICE thugs always walk around in threes?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals."
KGB jokes adapt to ICE depressingly well.
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals."
KGB jokes adapt to ICE depressingly well.
Breaking The ICE With Jokes
Some ICE jokes. The reason that I'm sharing them is at the end of the post.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Why do the ICE thugs always walk around in threes?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals."
KGB jokes adapt to ICE depressingly well.
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals."
KGB jokes adapt to ICE depressingly well.
"If someone rapes a woman, we are not obligated to write 'he only raped one woman, in contrast to serial rapists Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein.' One rape is evil enough (I am fully aware that lots of people don’t think rape is evil at all, but they’re wrong)."
Undead sexist cliches: everyone’s doing it
A couple of years back I posted about the Southern Baptist Conference’s ongoing rape and harassment scandal on Facebook (ongoing in that they still haven’t adopted a system to stop this…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"If someone rapes a woman, we are not obligated to write 'he only raped one woman, in contrast to serial rapists Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein.' One rape is evil enough (I am fully aware that lots of people don’t think rape is evil at all, but they’re wrong)."
For some reason, I was reminded recently that during the W years we were assured, repeatedly, that the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were the greatest villains unhung and deserved everything we did to them, including torture.
They were overwhelmingly innocent.
I wonder what put that in my head.
They were overwhelmingly innocent.
I wonder what put that in my head.
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
For some reason, I was reminded recently that during the W years we were assured, repeatedly, that the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were the greatest villains unhung and deserved everything we did to them, including torture.
They were overwhelmingly innocent.
I wonder what put that in my head.
They were overwhelmingly innocent.
I wonder what put that in my head.
"you will be drawn in, if you are drawn in, not by desire for gain or ease, but simply because at that moment, when the cup was so near your lips, you cannot bear to be thrust back again into the cold outer world" — CS Lewis, foreshadowing the people who became Epstein fans.
The Inner Ring (C.S. Lewis On The Epstein Lists)
"To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colors."
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December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"you will be drawn in, if you are drawn in, not by desire for gain or ease, but simply because at that moment, when the cup was so near your lips, you cannot bear to be thrust back again into the cold outer world" — CS Lewis, foreshadowing the people who became Epstein fans.
After 18 months of not buying comics, why would I have resumed in 1971 with a random issue of Teen Titans?
Teen Titans #32: The Mystery Endures ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
(Another reposted column that fits into my Silver Age Reread). No, not a mystery in the story or about the story. The mystery is why the hell I bought it. …
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December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
After 18 months of not buying comics, why would I have resumed in 1971 with a random issue of Teen Titans?
As the blogger and ethicist Hilzoy put it some years back, “Our moral lives depend, to an enormous degree, on our ability to stop and think before crossing certain lines; to recognize that it is time to stop acting in whatever ways come naturally to us.”
When the rules are not enough
“Not to tell the Federalist Society how to run its orientation sessions, but “don’t accept explicit photos from someone litigating in your courtroom” should really be on page one.” That…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
As the blogger and ethicist Hilzoy put it some years back, “Our moral lives depend, to an enormous degree, on our ability to stop and think before crossing certain lines; to recognize that it is time to stop acting in whatever ways come naturally to us.”
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I think one day we will look back and realize that we shouldn’t have been so universally against shaming and labels. Some absolutely. But Evil, corrupt, immoral, perpetrator, war criminal, villain…some we absolutely should have marked for retention.
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think one day we will look back and realize that we shouldn’t have been so universally against shaming and labels. Some absolutely. But Evil, corrupt, immoral, perpetrator, war criminal, villain…some we absolutely should have marked for retention.
"" Saying “men should be in charge” or “men have the right to beat their wives” is common enough that it’s banal. There’s nothing edgy or daring about supporting patriarchy or defending rape — it’s evil, but it’s trite evil. "
Being misogynist does not make you an edgelord
“The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"" Saying “men should be in charge” or “men have the right to beat their wives” is common enough that it’s banal. There’s nothing edgy or daring about supporting patriarchy or defending rape — it’s evil, but it’s trite evil. "
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Tapping the sign
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tapping the sign
“The time has come for a supreme, inevitable meeting with destiny!” — John Carradine, "Pacto Diabolico."
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“The time has come for a supreme, inevitable meeting with destiny!” — John Carradine, "Pacto Diabolico."
Before the Silver Age began in '56, it was trying to be born. But we're not quite there in '53.
I hear it coming. I can feel it in my bones ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
(Title is from the lyrics to Crystal Gayle’s “Our Love Is on the Faultine,” in case you were wondering). I’m pleased with DC’s new DC Finest reprint line. So far I’ve …
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November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Before the Silver Age began in '56, it was trying to be born. But we're not quite there in '53.
In the early Silver Age, Superman doubles had a moment.
Has anyone ever said you look like Superman? ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
I recently wrapped up the first Silver Age Superman omnibus, which I bought to upgrade from the Showcase Superman black and white TPBs. As I’ve blogged about before, this was an …
atomicjunkshop.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the early Silver Age, Superman doubles had a moment.
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Sounds good.
At the very least these settlements need to *exceed* the profits of their criminality, & start to include corporate death penalty provisions that bar them from any future employment in the industry, being in the board of any corporation or organization, and in many cases revoke the corporate charter
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Sounds good.
"“whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed,” not as a blanket defense of government, but as a warning that habitual defiance is a spiritual danger."
I'll go out on a limb and say Romans wasn't taking about Starbucks.
I'll go out on a limb and say Romans wasn't taking about Starbucks.
Christian Site: Starbucks Strike Harkens The End Times - Joe.My.God.
James Lasher writes for the far-right Charisma News: Starbucks workers staged what the union calls a national “Red Cup rebellion” this week, walking off the job at about 65 stores across the United St...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"“whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed,” not as a blanket defense of government, but as a warning that habitual defiance is a spiritual danger."
I'll go out on a limb and say Romans wasn't taking about Starbucks.
I'll go out on a limb and say Romans wasn't taking about Starbucks.
"There was a preacher who spoke of the light,
but he had brimstone in his throat." — Mary Chapin Carpenter.
but he had brimstone in his throat." — Mary Chapin Carpenter.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"There was a preacher who spoke of the light,
but he had brimstone in his throat." — Mary Chapin Carpenter.
but he had brimstone in his throat." — Mary Chapin Carpenter.
My DVDs and reference books for my Jekyll and Hyde film guide. Plus a few library books that haven't gone back yet.
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My DVDs and reference books for my Jekyll and Hyde film guide. Plus a few library books that haven't gone back yet.