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May 5th, 2008 3:39 pm by Kelly GarbatoSpeaking of oil, Right-wing talking points about oil prices are nonsense.
Climate change may harm your furry friends, too.
Thanking the Monkey is to animal rights as Full Frontal Feminism is to feminism? No matter; I’d still love a copy of Karen Dawn’s debut for my birthday…which is this Friday…hint, hint, wink, wink.
Discovery Cove Dolphin Dies Performing Trick In Front Of Spectators - yet another reason not to take the kiddos to aquariums and other so-called “animal theme parks”.
Shocker: women (and presumably people of color, GLBT folks, etc.) are underrepresented at the cineplex this summer season. Incidentally, this factoid was the cause of a fifteen-minute argument between LD and I last night. Apparently he thinks the onus is on us wimmins to demand more female-friendly fare through a national boycott. Cause, like, it’s not as though we aren’t already occupied with more pressing issues such as bodily autonomy, poverty, equal pay, etc….Silver lining is that it was the *only* time I wanted to kick him in the nuts yesterday, so that’s an improvement I guess. (Link via Anxious Black Woman.)
By way of CNN, contemporary war-themed movies are flopping at the box office. Stop/Loss, In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, The Kingdom, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Home of the Brave, Grace is Gone - go rent ‘em. War Inc, go watch it. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay…the jury’s still out.
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