Jul 09 2012
Over the weekend, the governor, Nikki Haley, destroyed the South Carolina Commission for the Arts — the cut was such that the 20 people who work there cannot show up to work today, can’t even go into their building, because of liability issues. The arts in South Carolina brings in $9.2 billion and creates 78,000 jobs …
Jul 04 2012
Perhaps I should just start a regular feature called “My Dumb Home State”. South Carolina is known basically for being an embarrassment, and we like to continue that tradition thoroughly and frequently. You may or may not remember that the ACLU sued a prison in SC for only allowing the inmates access to one book, The Bible. …
Jun 28 2012
I live in a state that is often accused of being the worst. We have a saying in South Carolina: “Thank God for Mississippi!” When it comes to diseases and listening to the religious right being absolutely beyond stupid, we are pretty close to the bottom. There is a wonderful vaccine that prevents several kinds …
Apr 28 2012
This isn’t just a war on women, it’s a war on dignity, it’s a war on common decency, it’s a war on the GOP’s own conservative principles. When someone accuses liberals of being smug and turning our country into a “nanny state”, ask them which party thinks women are too stupid to make their own …
Apr 26 2012
The following is from the press release from the SC part of the Unite Against the War on Women. I will be speaking at the State House on Saturday, at some point between 11:30AM and 1PM. If you are in South Carolina, please come, if you are elsewhere, please find your local event and participate. …
Dec 18 2011
Today I read a news story in The State and WIS that said the Columbia Police Department is going to be enforcing a “no profanity” law within the city limits. The police spokeswoman said: “If they want to curse, do it in their own home. Why do you have to do it in park where they are other children, …
Dec 18 2011
Nearly a month ago, I introduced you to the Columbia Coalition of Reason, which had put up a billboard inviting local non-theists to contact us. The reaction from Christians was predominantly negative, but we also received a lot of very positive responses from both non-believers and believers. This week, a local church decided to put up a …
Oct 22 2011
The following amendment is up for a vote in Mississippi this year: “SECTION 1. Article III of the constitution of the state of Mississippi is hearby amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION TO READ: Section 33. Person defined. As used in this Article III of the state constitution, “The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human …
Sep 25 2011
I’ve decided to make a concerted effort to post more, even if it’s not about anything particularly interesting or a particularly in-depth post. It turns out writing a personal blog while writing for a professional one becomes a lot more difficult. Not because there aren’t things I care about, but because they necessarily take a …
Jul 31 2011
I haven’t written about the legalization of gay marriage in New York. It is a big deal, obviously, but it didn’t have any sort of direct impact on me or anyone I know. Unlike Prop 8, which went down while I lived in California and which went on for a very long time, the decision …
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