Archive for September, 2011


Brass Balls Radio: Beyond Politics

Jamie Walton is the founder and head of The Wayne Foundation (www.the-waynefoundation.org), a resource for child victims of sex trafficking. Jamie herself was a trafficked child, and this week we talk about her story. For further backstory, go to Kevin Smith’s SMinterview with Jamie here (http://smodcast.com/episodes/jamie-walton-2/) and here (http://smodcast.com/episodes/jamie-walton-part-2/). If you believe that there is [...]

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Currently Reading: A State Beyond the Pale

At Christmas one of my girlfriends gave me A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel by Robin Shepherd. When I went for my surgery in February I tossed it into my overnight bag, and never saw it again. Till last week, when I was tidying up the boudoir. Europe has always been anti-Semitic [...]

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Behind the scenes at a Brass Balls production meeting

My cohost Kimberly Haney and I were on a call yesterday to go over the backstory of an upcoming guest. We were trying to find angles for questions, and so I was describing the guest to Kim. “One great area of questioning would be to ask how they explained their lifestyle to those not in [...]

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Fuck!

I have been tossed into Twitmo just in time for tonight’s CNN/Tea Party debate. I blame the patriarchy or something. So now I have to do things as I did them pre-2008… I have to “live blog,” which is already so archaic that the Guardian in the UK does it. Cool toy: President Bingo. My [...]

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Woman who looks suspiciously like Ezra Levant wants educational communism

Shorter Marxist: If I can’t get some of the money rich kids have, then rich kids shouldn’t have it either! Some Toronto woman who bears an unsettling resemblance to Ezra Levant no longer wants to see kids raising money in bake sales and door-to-door chocolate bar drives, because the ones in rich neighborhoods make higher [...]

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