Nicole Youngman

Nicole Youngman

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10 years ago @ Wonkette - Fox News Lady Very Wor... · 0 replies · +2 points

I think you're good until Nigel trips on it.

10 years ago @ Wonkette - Fox News Lady Very Wor... · 0 replies · +2 points

You may well be right, but generally we don't care whether or not anyone agrees with our particular strains of batshittiness. ;)

10 years ago @ Wonkette - Fox News Lady Very Wor... · 0 replies · +2 points

Hiya Wonkette--some of us actual Pagans have been keeping an eye on such wingnuttery as well--check out coverage at the Wild Hunt etc!

12 years ago @ Hail Columbia - Rick Perry and the New... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks for the Observer link--saw the Maddow piece too and have been meaning to look it up.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Unleash the Hounds! (L... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just saw your reply--thanks NA!

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Esoteric Publishers, C... · 0 replies · +6 points

The entire concept of "race" is only as real as we decide to make it, regardless. Racial categories are *invented* by different societies over time and so they vary drastically from one place to another and through different time periods; they simply don't have any basis in biological reality. Yes people have different skin colors and hair textures and what have you depending on the geographical origins of their ancestors, but it's the meanings that we assign to these characteristics that make up what we call "races," not the characteristics themselves. We don't talk about "quadroons" any more for heaven's sakes (heh, the spell check here doesn't even recognize the word! :)) but it was a vitally important concept a century and a half ago in the Deep South of the US.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Unleash the Hounds! (L... · 3 replies · +3 points

Nidhling....? That's one heathen (I think?) term I don't know, can you help me out? Sounds useful. :)

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Crisis and the Rise of... · 1 reply · +11 points

Thanks for the references, Jason, very useful.

Meanwhile...sigh. I wonder if the fact that I'm dabbling in herbalism means I need to have the satanic spirit of basil exorcised out of me? Or maybe it's the sage, that one ALWAYS leads to trouble...;)

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Crisis and the Rise of... · 2 replies · +12 points

Bingo--same thing with the fantasy literature and music etc, they'll cite whatever's current, and they can always find SOMETHING. These days it's Harry Potter etc, earlier it was those "backwards satanic messages" on Styx albums.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Washington Times' ... · 0 replies · +4 points

Another thing I find very interesting here is the underlying assumption (similar to the Green Dragon stuff) on the WT writer's part that environmentalism is fundamentally incompatible with xianity. But while I certainly prefer a Pagan sort of "dark green religion," there's all sorts of monotheistic religious environmentalism going on out there. As Hecate noted above, this is as much about attacking environmentalism as it is about going after us specifically--and in the process they're (purposefully, I think) condemning more liberal xians who don't have a problem with sharing some of our values and (literally, in this case) giving us our space as well.