Al Stefanelli

Posts Tagged ‘GOP’

Leave Health Care Reform Alone, Or Better Yet, Bring On Socialized Medicine

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The issue of [...]

Yes! It’s Rape!

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people has the right to impose definitions of reality on others.  - Liz Stanley and Sue Wise I got a call the other day from my friend, RJ Evans, who hosts American Heathen Radio, of which I am one of the co-hosts. He told [...]

All Your Vagina Are Belong To Us

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.” ― Virginia Woolf At first I thought it was just me, you know? Not that I am unaware of the religious right’s preoccupation with the vagina and women’s bodies in general. Kraken knows I’ve written enough about it. But the rhetoric has gotten [...]

Doing The Newtron Dance

“To The Moon, Alice!” – Ralph Kramden Talk about your empty campaign promises. The Fig has ambitions for a permanent, thirteen-thousand member moon colony with regular commercial flights from earth to be used for things like tourism and manufacturing, complete with a ”continuous propulsion system” that could take astronauts to Mars. Don’t get me wrong, back in July of [...]

An American Theocracy – by Newt Gingrich

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” - Sinclair Lewis Seems our old friend, Speaker Gingrich, has been busy lately drafting up his plan to take the United States on the last leg of her journey to becoming a theocracy. And you thought it was the Muslims [...]