It would be “Are there any woman outside of your family that you look up to or admire?”

That would be my feminist litmus test. If  he names a teacher from high school or elementary school then he’s pretty much going for the safe answer. A college professor would be better, but a famous women who held some sort of leadership role would be my ideal answer for this question.

I’d like to see if he would defy the convention that says it’s okay to  admire men for being great leaders cause that’s what men are supposed to do but women should not be admired for such traits, and that having those traits would make her a bitch. If he could really walk the feminist walk, or if he felt he could just rise above such questions.

This primary season has focused a lot on gender and race. And if Obama comes out as the winner I think he might have a problem with some women being bitter at Hillary’s loss and opting out of voting on election day. If he’s truly the uniter he says he is I wonder what he would say to ease the sting of Hillary’s loss to those women or if he felt that he had to say anything at all and that they should just vote for him cause he’s the democratic nominee.

So Tom Leykis is off the air in Phoenix now, and I’m going to kind of miss his show. True he has an incredibly sexist show at some points but it’s also a show that makes you think alot.

 Lots of times I hate it, sometimes I think he’s on the right track and he’s giving good advice out. But alot of it is incredibly sexist and I’m often confused as to wether he’s sexist or not. I still think that it’s an example of how we has a society are very confused about what our sexual roles are now.

His basic philosophy is don’t get married cause if you’re a man you’ll only get screwed. Not bad advice, the whole institution pretty much gone to hell. But the thing is that he’s lost that so he’s fallen back on objectifying women. It’s like there is nothing more positive that he can replace marriage with?

The other thing that pisses me off is that it feels like he’s saying that no matter what i do I’m just going to stab my b/f in the heart eventually or he’s going to “upgrade” to a “younger model” when i’m 30 something or 40 something. And that message that something is going to happen no matter what just drives me frigging nuts.

Today I decided to listen to him one more time on the web to see if he said anything about Free fm in phoenix changing formats, and I’ve had it. After him telling another caller that you have to be an asshole to get chicks, then I said I’ve had it. Goodbye Tom.

“Maj Gen Taguba, who retired in January, spoke of other, undisclosed material on the Abu Ghraib abuse, including descriptions of the sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees. He also stated he saw ‘a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomising a female detainee,’ adding the video was never made public.”

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I don’t think there is much I can really say about this. Horrible things happened in Abu Ghraib and who knows if we’ll ever really know the entire story. 

“Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that’s been raped?” the Kansas Republican asked at the St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers gathering.

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 Just awesome, adding insult to injury.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401973.html

This guy isn’t even smart enough to tell the difference between a sheriff and a 14 year old girl, how the hell did he get into homeland security. I’d like to think that we’d be hiring people who were at least smart enough to be successful criminials.

Interesting flash animation that represents the number of people that died in Iraq and where in Iraq they died.

http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html