Katie Schwartz

This is awesome! Just sent via email. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Homemade signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect. The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have sta rted with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally 'a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots,' and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air,...

Free Republic ... my ass . Check out that link, seriously. Lipstick republican women for Palin. What these women are talking about is so disturbing, "My husband thinks she's hot." "She doesn't have cankles". "Love her!" "I just ordered dozens of lipstick republican t-shirts for my daughters." "I love her hair". "Those glasses are soooo cute." Not one woman addressed her politics, not one. Insult to injury, they regard her as the new feminist . I'm deeply offended that a woman advocates throwing us back 50-years, is against equal pay, opposed to a woman's right to choice and supports book banning. If you can stomach it, check out the link . If, if, if you can stomach it because you will be super neesh after reading it. In case you missed it on some other blogs, you must read this article found on Acts of Hope regarding White Privilege . Rolling Stone wrote a scanadlicious article about the Stolen Election of 20...

What a grand blogging day today was, just like yesterday. I was introduced to 4 new bloggers who answered the PoliQs flawlessly. My Saturday Evening Post is brilliance and sarcasm at it's finest. Pushing Fifty Gently 's POV from Canada was awesome. I'd love to see more people in other countries participate in the PoliQ. I am so looking forward to getting to know her delicious bloggy blog. Thailand Girl addressed concerns about foreign affairs with a slew of quotables. Little Merry Sunshine dished up fierce facts and a fast talkin' (writing) personality. A blog of note that we all know and love is Bubbsie's , who tossed out so many pearls of wisdom, I'm still reeling. Bubbsie is the author of Sprawling Ramshackle Compound and my good friend, a truly amazing mensch with a heart, and family spun of gold, answered from the exquisitely personal, to the brilliantly objective. Lots of important facts and links. Callbacks to the past and what middle class Americans on...

I could not be more in love with FranIAm , DCup , ImpeachmentAndOtherDreams , HelenWheels and DivaJood , five brilliant women, than I am right now in this moment. I am so proud of each of these dames and admire their moxie so hard . Eloquently parsing fact from fiction, expressing their disdain with the Bush regime while articulating their views about why we should vote for Obama Biden and sharing how the past eight-years have impacted their lives personally and professionally. You have got to read what they've written. Speaking for myself, every literary morsel took my wig off, made me think and taught me something new about each politician that I am grateful for. These broads KICK MOTHAH FUCKIN ASS. Run. Read. Now. Here's the dish: DCup of Politits , my sweet, open-minded friend and blogger spoke at length about the economy and the war. The important separation of church and state. Our loss of civil liberties and how much worse it will get should McCunt and Palin make it into...

I asked a few heavy hitting political bloggers from all walks of life to answer some poliQ's about why they're voting for Obama/Biden, issues of concern for them, a bit about their background, etc. One of the bloggers, a favorite of mine, actually is MonkeyMucker . As you know, he's deeply passionate about politics, especially this election and his been blogging a lot of important issues that we need to know about. Please, please, please check out his answers to the PoliQ , they took my wig off, yo. Some of what he said regarding economics realllllly struck a chord. -- After yas finish, don't forget to come back and read Lewchie's magnifique essay and vote ! He's already logged one vote and I just posted it today. Daaaayyyyymmmm. Kid's good.

One has to wonder what McCain will call his new Vice-President choice Sarah Palin when he inevitably loses his cool with her? Surely it couldn’t be “shithead”, “asshole”, or “fucking jerk” like he has referred to his fellow congressmen. He respects and works with these men every day. They work together to shape our lives and the future of America. There is an unimagined level of camaraderie and respect between these political gentlemen and women. No, this is just the kind of behavior real men show. Real men often call each other names that are the complete opposite of what they think. Real men jokingly refer to their friends as “fags”, “queer”, and “dickface” all the time. This man was a POW - as he takes every opportunity to remind us. Real men make hard decisions every day. For example, McCain realized he was deeply in love with Cindy Lou Hensley and made the difficult choice to end his marriage of fourteen years. It takes a strong man to realize when something is wrong and to make i...

We all saw this, yes? If not, it's entirely too flawless not to pass along....