Andrea Dworkin died. A self described radical feminist, Dworkin’s ideas were a bit too far out there for me. She wrote that heterosexual sex was abusive. She also was anti-pornography, which clashed with my hard-line free speech beliefs. When liberal ideas collide. Ampersand quotes a Guardian article which tries to graciously remember her.

Amy Sullivan and Matt Ygelsias are going head to head about whether Democrats should be critiquing pop culture. Sullivan maintains that the average voters don’t think that Democrats get their concerns. Democrats can talk about the problems in pop culture without advocating censorship or shilling for the Christian Right.

As a father of a son with Downs syndrome, Michael Berube fights against the idea that liberals automatically advocate aborting fetuses with disabilities.

Hubby and I are still laughing about the Man Date article.