It infuriates me that we have to have discussions like this in the 21st Century. It outrages me that we have to beg people to give folks their basic human rights. Why haven’t we reached the point where it’s obvious to even the dimmest and most backward among us that it’s not okay to deny …
Category Archive: politics
Nov 17 2011
Rising Up
I’m making an exception to my “no links to HuffPo because they are a repository for woo and wackaloonery that should not be rewarded” because this is important: Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They’ll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? Go read it in its entirety before coming back …
Sep 01 2011
Is There a Word for a First World Nation Becoming a Third World Country?
Even when I was a kid, I knew I was lucky. I had a middle-class family in a prosperous country. Sally Fields used to come on the teevee soliciting funds for all those poor, starving kids in other countries where families were lucky if they had a bit of cloth to throw over a stick …
Jul 29 2011
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bard?
It may seem bizarre that in the land infamous for a dry sense of humor, satire is banned. But politicians in both Great Britain and Ireland, it appears, are terrified of people like Jon Stewart. So terrified, in fact, that they’ve come up with inane rules meant to prevent the carpets in their halls of …
Jun 30 2011
Call to Action
My darlings, please take one minute and go sign Bernie Sanders’s letter to President Obama: So, today, I am asking the American people that, if you believe deficit reduction should be about shared sacrifice; if you believe the wealthiest people in our country and the largest corporations should be asked to pay their fair share …
May 02 2011
Taking it Personally
The party of “life” strikes again: House File 1467, which ought to be called “Shoot First,” will be heard in the House Public Safety Committee this Thursday. It would allow the killing of anyone who enters another’s yard, even when the person is unarmed and posing no threat; and it would allow the killing of …
Apr 18 2011
Watch This. It’s Terrifying and Important
This is how easy it is to steal an election: Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections. (h/t via Suzanne)
Feb 23 2011
World Coming Down
I’d meant to get the next Oregon Geology post up, but instead have spent the past several days watching in bemusement, sometimes in horror, as the world changes. In Wisconsin, the Cons in control have rather overplayed their hand. I’m proud of the Dems there who left the state to deny a quorum, and incredibly …
Jan 31 2011
GOP Priorities: Redefining Rape
Right, then, ladies. The Cons in Congress, together with a handful of despicable Dems, have decided we must have rape babies. Observe: Under this new bill, the only rape survivors who would be able to receive funding [for abortion] would be those who were able to prove that their rapes involved “force.” If your rapist …
Jan 24 2011
It’s Not That Easy Addendum
Saw this at Digby’s after I’d written the previous post: All over TV today, I’m hearing the gasbags fret about the fact that Obama hasn’t brought up gun control. It’s a good question, but they know the answer to it very well: the Democrats have given up that issue, the only problem is that the …
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