Archive for the 'Good Reads' Category

Recommended Reads through July 12th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

And Now, a Kyle Payne Fact Sheet « Off Our Pedestals -
Amazon.com: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking: Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois: Books -
Open Letter to Obama: A Personal Perspective on Late-Term Abortion (Essential Estrogen) -
Annals of Medicine: [...]

What You Should Read Since I’m Not Writing

Lesson 1:
Of all of the stories and subplots, there would be one that, in many ways, symbolized the whole of Katrina, what it revealed about the Bush administration, and how it would affect the lives of so many people. On Friday, Mary Landrieu had been with Bush and Blanco as they toured the 17th Street [...]

Recommended Reads through April 24th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work - WSJ.com - Younger generations need more ego-stroking. We’re all narcissists.
Peggy McIntosh’s Invisible Knapsack, LOL Cat Style - via Sylvia of Problem Chylde
Cake and Cunnilingus Day - Have your cake and eat me too.
An Anecdote - “God, I don’t know, I [...]

Recommended Reads through April 3rd

What you should read since I’m not writing:

The Trouble with Terrorism - Means “Muslim dudes with bombs.”
The Republic of T. - Decoupling Education & Upward Mobility - “For how many American families was this kind of job — a blue collar job with a livable wage and good benefits — a doorway to upward mobility, [...]

Recommended Reads through March 17th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

Photoshop Brushes - Free Photoshop brushes.
Fontennium - Best free historical fonts.
Fonts 500 - Top 500 free fonts with custom preview.
The 10 Worst Products For Men Ever Created -
Birmingham_charset.jpg (JPEG Image, 365×380 pixels) -
Opcion Font Viewer - Free font viewer for Windows, Mac, and Linux -
Art [...]

Recommended Reads through March 10th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

You Mess with the Bull . . . - Excellent before and after shots.
Your feminism ain’t like mine - “Don’t conflate fighting sexism with supporting her or I will gladly and unashamedly bow out of it. Because I rank fighting sexism higher than electing her.” Hear, hear!
This Might [...]

Recommended Reads through March 5th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

Painted Fabric Silhouettes and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com -
The Unapologetic Mexican: Bill Said it Best. - Really clever comment on the “3 am” Clinton commercial.
McCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children -
Kareem Rizk’s Birds Now Available - [...]

Recommended Reads through February 29th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

The Family Brood: How To Clean Your House -
Warm Biscuit Company: Vintage Fabric - Sooooo cute.
Rape Victims Can Be Hurt Financially, Too - After being raped, expect to pay for your own rape kit.
McCain’s long and ugly record on reproductive choice -
A suggestion - “Elizabeth [...]

Recommended Reads through February 26th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

Suck My D**k F**k Face - Chef surely identifies with this.
Etsy :: MataHariJewelry :: Mata Hari Jewelry
Etsy :: rivetingjewelry :: Handmade with Severe Passion.
Etsy :: AmberSky :: AmberSky
Etsy :: totaleigh :: Small Alligator Circles
Obama Steps in It - “Once is a mistake. Twice, it’s a way of thinking [...]

Recommended Reads for February 6th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

Seeing Red - How many inane pieces on the meaning of clothing should we expect this primary season? “Perhaps what got my blood boiling more than anything about this exchange was the assumption that Barack Obama wants his wife to take on a Nancy Reagan-esque role…”
Barack Obama [...]

Recommended Reads through February 5th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

Cat Fight! - This made my day.
subversive cross stitch valentines by Natalie Dee! -
Etsy :: Because birds are cool. - I’m dying for some of these prints. Our yard is overrun with bluebirds and cardinals and I’ve developed a real affection for them. LOVE these [...]

Recommended Reads for January 18th through January 24th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

“Electability” - “And ‘more moderate’ boiled down to ‘more moderate’ on the Iraq War, which boiled down to, ‘you must support someone who thinks preemptive war isn’t such a bad idea.’” And Kerry didn’t win anyway.
American Feminists Are Super Cool - Criticism of Katha Pollitt’s recent call [...]