Isn’t ending anytime soon, and the NY Times is noticing: A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures. Unfortunately, there’s little evidence, so far, that the Obama administration’s anti-foreclosure plan will be able to stop it. The plan offers up to $75 billion in incentives …
Archives for June 2009
Time To Rethink Your Conscience
Most of you know how much I like Andrew Sullivan, and I’m not a fanatic about abortion either way. I’ll never have one, but I think it is none of my damned business what other people do with their medical decisions. I’m comfortable with our current law, which allows for people who dislike abortion to …
Identity politics
Nowadays, it’s only Latinos, women, and African-Americans who practice identity politics. Everyone else agrees that white, male Anglos are the only ones qualified to be in charge of anything. But it wasn’t always this way: Back in 1962, when Joseph Lieberman was 20, he attended a raucous Democratic state convention in Hartford, Conn. Abraham Ribicoff, …
Bleg and Open Thread
Although I don’t normally cheese blog, extreme circumstances sometimes call for extreme measures. As of Saturday the East Liberty Whole Foods in Pittsburgh had a decent number of small rounds of a truffled sheep cheese called Tartufello Pecorino. This is a cheese for which I would consider killing a man, yet is only slightly more …
Soldier Dead in Arkansas
Another crazy person with insane beliefs appears to have killed a a soldier in Arkansas: A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday. “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and …
Field Guide to Your Neighborhood Womb Bigots, Pt. 1
These are the people standing in front of your local reproductive services clinic, assuming you’re lucky enough to live where reproductive services clinics haven’t been firebombed or otherwise destroyed by forced-birth domestic terrorists, shading from the harmless-if-clueless to the very, very dangerous. Bingo Ladies Gone Bad: Probably 85% of the “regulars”, the ones who show …
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Forced-Birth Terrorists
If President Obama were my personal “change agent”, he’d have announced that the National Guard would now recruit gynecologists to serve as abortion providers in those parts of America — which would be most parts of America — where domestic terrorism and religious extremists keep American women from accessing medical services which are not only …