During the heat of a clandestine make-out session, Tobey starts to rape her. He should have taken Dawn’s screams of “no,” for an answer - because her anatomy is unique in the extreme.

Dawn has vagina dentata, a mythical condition in which the female sex organ grows teeth, and ... well, you can guess the rest.

Traumatized and shamed by the ordeal, Dawn seeks medical counsel that further muddles her understanding of her body. And it is no wonder she is so confused.

Her condition aside, her school’s sexual education class does not discuss, let alone show diagrams of the female reproductive system.   more »

Everyone's Favourite Uncle Tom

The remarkable success of power-respectful, bourgeois, non-threatening “good” blacks like Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Colin Powell helps white Americans believe that blacks have only themselves to blame on the whole for black America’s persistently separate and unequal status in the U.S.

For many whites, loving national media stars like Oprah and Barack is the nice reverse side of hating inner-city Darnell and Lakisha.

The sophisticated and opportunistic Obama knows this very well.   more »

Nothing has changed

It's still the same old bullshit

Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom

who would bomb Pakistan

Hillary Clinton, another bomber,

is anti-feminist

John McCain’s one distinction is that

he has personally bombed a country

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Keywords: fairytale, democracy, president, propaganda

What is involved is not a conjunctural financial downturn, but rather a systemic crisis of the world capitalist system that finds its sharpest expression in the decline of the global position of American capitalism.

Underlying the present financial turmoil is the unraveling of economic processes bound up with financial speculation that has been developing over the course of some three decades.

From the early 1980s, responding to the protracted decline in the profitability of US manufacturing, the American ruling class embarked upon a relentless assault on the wages and basic rights of the working class, thereby effecting a wholesale redistribution of social wealth upward to the financial elite.

The drive by the US ruling class to systematically impoverish the vast majority of the population to the point where they cannot afford to pay their debts is producing an economic readjustment on a scale not seen in decades.   more »

High praise for Reagan was not the end of Obama's slide into right wing demagoguery.

"I think it's fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10-15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom."

One day Obama channels Ronald Reagan, the next he channels Newt Gingrich. It is too frightening to ask how much lower he will fall.

Obama calculates that he can get away with anything and still be supported by most black people. Unfortunately, at this moment he is correct. Race pride based on symbolism has become the order of the day though it is clearly no substitute for a principled political fight.   more »