Still ruining everything: Palin paved the way for Obama to kill "feminist"
The death of the word "feminist" was broadcast on the evening news. In September 2008, at the height of the presidential campaign, Katie Couric boarded John McCain's airplane, took a seat with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and lobbed the first in a series [...]

The line outside Ben's Chili Bowl still stretched around the block this afternoon to accommodate tourists interested in consuming a half-smoke in the establishment where President Barack Obama famously consumed a half-smoke just days earlier. Also, keeping in the grand tradition of celebrating things by making things out of other things, there's a sweet ice [...]

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The Huffington Post points us to this video of members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas protesting Obama's inauguration yesterday on Pennsylvania Ave. From HuffPo:
NomadsLand provides a nice video of the Westboro clan getting worked over by the more well-adjusted crowd and giving their typical bizarre answers to everything. I especially love [...]

I missed Beyonce singing "At Last" to Barack and Michelle at last night's Neighborhood Ball—I was busy scoping out presidential connections (and duck wraps!) at the Hawaii State Society Inaugural Ball—which means I got to cry a little bit over YouTube this morning. Here's the first dance, in case you missed it, too:
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For this week's special inauguration issue, I profiled three locals whose hopes and dreams were nearly shattered even as audacious hope enthusiast Barack Obama prepared to assume the presidency. Read all about it—The housing bubble that would not burst fast enough! The Irish Obama novelty song the bridge closers didn't want you to hear! The [...]

Check out this baby: the Barack Obama shaped dildo you never knew you didn't want! This "Official Obama Pleasure Toy," dubbed the "Head O State," stands 7.5 inches tall, measures two inches in diameter, weighs 14 ounces, and a bunch of other specifications I do not wish to know how the manufacturers decided upon. I [...]

If we learned anything from Sarah Palin, it's that "woman" is not the same as "feminist," which is why the bitching over this Ms. magazine special inauguration cover (right) has become so obnoxious.
"It is time that we take back the term 'feminism' and restore its dignity and honor . . . maybe Ms. and the [...]

The most recent issue of Ms. Magazine has stirred up some controversy for featuring a superhero president-elect in a bodice-ripping illustration that reveals a shirt that reads, "This is What a Feminist Looks Like." Some feminists have reacted with outrage at the president-elect's imaginary rifling of their closest.
"[T]he easy to please feminists over at [...]

[youtube:v=8mVEGfH4s5g] If they liked her, they should have let Beyonce put a ring on it.
Super hard, the Associated Press reports. Though the line-up for this Sunday's Obama inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial includes some of the nation's hottest performers, the notoriously lame "American spirit" promises to dampen each mammoth recording artist's luster. According [...]

Noted change enthusiast Barack Obama has consistently worked to maintain one time-honored campaign tradition: Holding and kissing babies. He seriously loves doing this. Surely, you can trust your newborn human in the estimable arms and lips of our president-elect. Or can you?
Housing Complex blogger Ruth Samuelson notes the baby-dropping potential of this frightening political trend. [...]