Apparently the letters A, C, O, R, and N aren’t so cool anymore. I’m delighted. (No, it won’t change anything; I just like to see them scramble, is all. They deserve it.)

CHICAGO – Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal.

The letters A, C, O, R and N are coming off office doors from New York to California. Business cards are being reprinted. New signs with new names are popping up in front of offices.

The breakaways are trying to shed the scandal that emerged six months ago when videos showed some ACORN workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. But while their names are different, most groups have kept the same offices and staff.

I mind this too:

I mind faux empowerment laced with the persistent whine of victimization.

Seems to me empowerment-victimization is the MO of many women’s womyn’s groups. And, apparently, now the Girl Guides, too.

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Andrea updates: The guide itself. “Happy, Healthy, Hot”–the title really does tell you a lot about priorities for International Planned Parenthood.

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Andrea again: Sorry, it’s actually “Healthy, Happy, Hot”. My mistake. That changes everything.

Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get me! Here we have a book review by PWPL’s own Rebecca Walberg in the National Post.

To this I would add that since going to the Spy Museum in Washington, DC I am also an expert. Funny, Rebecca did not interview me to write this piece.

Our very own Andrea Mrozek made a fine comment at a conference in Ottawa today:

When a member of the audience asked about women in politics being treated differently, Ms. Grey responded that even so, it didn’t give them licence to “throw hissy fits at airports.”

“Women are judged differently. We can like it, we can harangue about it, we can hate it, we can do all kinds of things, but that’s the way it is. That’s life,” Ms. Grey, one of the best-known Conservative women, later told The Canadian Press.

“We can’t give ourselves permission to lose control and have a hissy fit at an airport or wherever, in the House of Commons, because it will come back to bite us.”

Ms. Mrozek also waded in.

“Is it because someone’s a woman or that they’re just being an idiot in the public square?” she said.

For the record, I do think women are treated differently than men, in politics and most everywhere else (sometimes women get an undeserved break, other times it’s men). That’s because women and men are different. It’s just one of those things.

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Andrea updates: When I said that it was not in reference to Helena at all. It was in response to a student who asked whether I thought men and women were treated differently (and she was not covertly asking about Helena either) and I blabbed on about different factors that could play into the equation, concluding with the comment that was picked up. Anyhoo, there ya go. That’s my perspective on the whole thing. Someday I’m bound to be an idiot in the public square myself, and at that point, this comment will come back to haunt me!

LiveAction just released new pro-life posters. I especially like this one:

I am sure many of you were following the story of Baby Isaiah May. I’m sorry to say he died today, shortly after being taken off life support.

Rest in peace, little one.