Steep Chairs

Zuska at Thus Spake Zuska: Why Are You So Angry? (via Viv at Hoyden About Town)

Calling what he’s seeing “passion” has two effects: it dismisses the arguments being made as non-logical, non-intellectual, and it downgrades the seething anger many of us are carrying around from dealing with douchey d00ds all our lives to just a quaint little “passion”, something sweetly feminine.

Lux Alptraum at Jezebel: The HPV Vaccine’s Misguided Scare Tactics

It’s misleading, it relies on scare tactics, and it paints a pretty unrealistic picture of what happens to women who don’t get vaccinated with Gardasil.

Curtis Cartier at SantaCruz.com: In Santa Cruz, Anarchists of All Stripes

“Anarchy is rooted in striving to be free. This takes cooperation, and it’s hard to cooperate with people using force.”

Stephen Carter-Novotni at CityBeat: Medical Marijuana Bill Takes Root in Ohio

Depending on how you read the tea leaves, support for some sort of marijuana legalization might be at an all-time high among Americans.

Pamela White at the Boulder Weekly: Much ado about Melons

Bob and Catharine Pierce are in the midst of a media maelstrom because Catharine likes to garden and take out the trash while topless.

Curt Gayette at MetroTimes: Up in the air

The state, she said, can make a transformation from the “rust belt” to the “green belt” by aggressively pursuing policies that promote clean energy alternatives to the burning of fossil fuels.