July 7, 2009

Catbus' By No Means Comprehensive List of Public Sexism, Which I Am Glad We Can All Agree is Sexism and Not Harmless Now that Sarah Palin is Resigning Because of Sexism

- Hillary Clinton, an accomplished lawyer and not yet first lady, makes an off-the-cuff remark saying: “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.” People jump on her for it, and as a campaign damage-control stunt, she has a bake-off with Barbara Bush.

- Anita Hill testifies during Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings that Clarence Thomas put his pubic hair on her drink awhile back as a joke and sexually harassed her on the job frequently. David Brock, a conservative pundit at the time, assauges America’s worries that Clarence Thomas is a chauvinist sexual harassing pig by  writing that Anita Hill is a slut. I am not making this up.

- Some people manufacture a Hillary Clinton Nutcracker. While she’s running for president.

- Cosmo exists and will continue to exist.

Feel free to add your favorites!

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“ Here are lessons of the Sarah Palin experience, for any aspiring politician who shares her background and her sex. Your children will go through the tabloid wringer. Your religion will be mocked and misrepresented. Your political record will be distorted, to better parody your family and your faith. (And no, gentle reader, Palin did not insist on abstinence-only sex education, slash funds for special-needs children or inject creationism into public schools.)

Male commentators will attack you for parading your children. Female commentators will attack you for not staying home with them. You’ll be sneered at for how you talk and how many colleges you attended. You’ll endure gibes about your “slutty” looks and your “white trash concupiscence,” while a prominent female academic declares that your “greatest hypocrisy” is the “pretense” that you’re a woman. And eight months after the election, the professionals who pressed you into the service of a gimmicky, dreary, idea-free campaign will still be blaming you for their defeat.

(via southpol)

Well, now that we all agree that sexism exists, maybe we can get the goddamned Equal Rights Amendment codified, right? Right?

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Two things about this cartoon: a) Sarah Palin is wearing a Celtic cross around her neck. I’m sure it’s not intentional but I’m used to seeing it in a white supremacy context. About gave me a heart attack. b) I am no linguist but don’t the tildes normally go on the N in the word ‘pinata’

Two things about this cartoon:

a) Sarah Palin is wearing a Celtic cross around her neck. I’m sure it’s not intentional but I’m used to seeing it in a white supremacy context. About gave me a heart attack.

b) I am no linguist but don’t the tildes normally go on the N in the word ‘pinata’

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July 6, 2009
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My boss is listening to classical music right now and it sounds almost exactly like this.

My boss is listening to classical music right now and it sounds almost exactly like this.

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Via Andrew Sullivan: This is a coin from ancient Rome. It depicts two dudes doin’ it. From between 22 and 37 C.E.

Via Andrew Sullivan:

This is a coin from ancient Rome. It depicts two dudes doin’ it. From between 22 and 37 C.E.

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ACORN

ACORN

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July 4, 2009

Bill Kristol on Sarah Palin resigning:

“We can’t rule out that this was a stroke of genius yet.”

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July 3, 2009

Gristleizer build notes

a) It occurred to me after I had gotten the pots in on the screen side, ‘it would be much easier to mount them on the other side.’ This is the kind of thing you forget when you don’t build pedals enough. Stupid me.  I managed to kind of force the pots in anyway but it’s a somewhat tenuous connection. Don’t think I’ll have to replace.

b) Holes are gettin’ drilled. Gonna have to mod the case a little, by which I mean file/dremel two of the mount screw holes, to shove the case in. Nice job, endangered audio, you made a PCB that’s too big for a Hammond DD-sized box. Also, why didn’t anybody tell me about cliff-style jacks?

c) That is enough work for now I think.

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Fully fitted, except for leads and trimpots.

Fully fitted, except for leads and trimpots.

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And with trimmer potentiometers, capacitors and cliff jacks on it.

And with trimmer potentiometers, capacitors and cliff jacks on it.

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Here’s what a Gristleizer PCB looks like with resistors and IC sockets on it.

Here’s what a Gristleizer PCB looks like with resistors and IC sockets on it.

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July 2, 2009
samestuff: catbus: Placeholder for something else, but worth sharing. Want to road trip there? Always kind of wanted to go… I’ve been already and I’m not sure I want to go back. Although, on the other hand…

samestuff:

catbus:

Placeholder for something else, but worth sharing.

Want to road trip there? Always kind of wanted to go…

I’ve been already and I’m not sure I want to go back. Although, on the other hand…

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Placeholder for something else, but worth sharing.

Placeholder for something else, but worth sharing.

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“ Now I’m no doctor—and I definitely can’t make sense of the cardiac findings. But it sounds like “stress positions,” “sleep deprivation,” “walling,” and “water dousing” are all leading candidates to have caused the death of 04-309 [the autopsy number of a guy detained and tortured; his name is redacted]. Or, to use the terms used for techniques approved for use by one Special Forces group in Iraq until May 18, 2004, about a month after 04-309’s death, “safety positions,” “sleep adjustment/sleep management,” “change of environment/ environmental manipulation,” and “mild physical contact.” It doesn’t really matter what you call the techniques, though, because they amount to torture that—in the case of an apparently healthy 27 year old man—appear to have killed him in three days time.

This is a snip from a firedoglake post on a guy who was tortured to death by the U.S. Apparently, according to the autopsy, he suffered a brain injury and then his heart failed.

The OLC memos detailed a lot of shit, some psychological but mostly physical. Slamming people into walls, crushing people’s testicles, and so on. It should go without saying that it’s torture, but if you need another bucket of water dumped in the pool of evidence, here’s another one.

edit: Greenwald estimates at least a hundred dead from US interrogation. hooray. 

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