[Update: well, you can tell I'm not religious. It's the 23rd Psalm, not the Lord's Prayer, which is being rewritten here. I won't change the title because it will screw up the URL. If it matters to you, me being so stupid, you'll just have to forgive me, because that's what Jesus would do. ]
From Fri Prevett via Facebook:… Read the rest
Later today, I plan to head down to Grandfield Oklahoma, just this side of the Texas border, to join some students in a counter demo against the Phelps/Westboro Baptist/Gods Hates Fags nutjobs from Kansas.
A week ago I had never even heard of Grandfield, Oklahoma, and maybe you hadn’t either, but some bad (in my opinion) decisions by school… Read the rest
Yesterday’s news out of the Justice Department in which it indicated support for Bush’s rendition program (i.e. exit visa for torture outside of US) was horrifying. I really don’t know what to make of it. I’m not a lawyer, so was kinda hoping it wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
But here’s what the lawyers think:
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From the Desk
There is a great op-ed, Counting Out Women, by Melissa McEwan published today in the Guardian (UK) about Chris Matthews and the general idiocy in the US media (not to mention a huge hunk of the blogosphere) about some parts of the original economic stimulus package, in which she specifically addresses the segment from Hardball that I posted… Read the rest
Finally, it is about over. Just two days, and we can watch watch his chickenhawk ass get out of our White House and our Capital City. Bush and his accomplices will continue to try to whitewash his “legacy” but they will fail. The best George W. Bush can hope from history is eternal ignominy. With an iota of justice… Read the rest
Well, that was a brief hiatus, when I didn’t feel like crying or screaming every time I heard about the latest political news.
The inauguration hasn’t even taken place yet, and already, folks like me have been slapped in the face. At least with Clinton, it came after he was in office a few days.
So here’s my first complaint… Read the rest
I’m having very conflicted feelings about out lesbian Ellen Degeneres being the new Cover Girl model. so I’m putting out a call to other aging feminists: What do you think? Watch and take the poll below.
Is Ellen as a cosmetics model a civil rights breakthrough or feminist setback? ( polls)
In an earlier post about the Prop 8 backlash, I mentioned the fact that the CEO of Cinemark, which runs a chain of theaters, contributed thousands of dollars to the anti-gay Proposition 8 in California and a boycott was in order.
Is this kind of response over-reacting? Is it religious bigotry to fight back against those whose “faith”… Read the rest
