Women
My God! A national candidate will TALK to the PRESS!
Monday, September 8th, 2008I just finished watching Amy Goodman talking about her arrest at the RNC when I continued through the feeds and found much! breathless! self-congratulation! that ABC’s Charlie Gibson had made himself tolerable enough to the media-disdaining McCain campaign to be an acceptable interviewer, in their eyes.
After his interview with Mr. McCain had aired, Mr. [...]
Here, rape my daughters: Quaint scenes of family values from the Judeo-Christian tradition
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Sometimes we’re reminded that Christianity had issues long before medieval adventure-hungry young men were offered a trip to the Near East to get off on killing heretics or anyone else who looked rather swarthy; before various Inquisition purges and the campaign against, well, women, basically; before proto-capitalists used Jesus to beat as much labor out [...]
We KNEW you hated sex! Hired guns for Fundagelicals slip, Freudishly
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008So American Heresy fans will find it no surprise that we’re no fans of “The Secret” or any other blame-the-victim idiotologies, however, at times like these we are reminded of those proverbial math problems involving Train A and Train B barreling toward each other on the same track at high rates of speed. High fives [...]
Books on our list: Faludi’s Terror Dream
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Oh boy. Our girl Susan (of Backlash fame) is out with The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America and we’re going to add it to the American Heresy library ASAP.
From Yahoo’s review:
By retreating to a comfortable myth, she asserts, the nation essentially closed its eyes.
Here’s hoping she takes a stab at why we [...]