I feel duly obligated as a blog owner to weigh in on the George Allen ‘Macaca’ affair. To be honest, I had heard that Allen had said something stupid, and I really didn’t pay any attention to it because, well, let’s face it- the last few years I have grown accustomed to elected Republicans saying …
Meet The New Gay
Once again a bunch of politicians, looking for an election-year edge, have ginned up a massive campaign around another divisive social issue. The usual hallmarks are there: congressional bills that have little chance of passing, passionate declarations of principle, base-motivating ballot initiatives in targeted states. You know the drill. So who’s teh gay? The minimum …
Something To Think About
For those of you who have a hard time figuring out why many on the right so vehemently oppose gay marriage, I found this comment to be very worthwhile: Oh, c’mon. It’s perfectly obvious why the GOP views “homosexual marriage” as dangerous and undermining to the “traditional marriage” structure. It’s all about maintaining a certain …
Blah Blah Blogosphere
The run-down: Students protest military recruiters, include their personal information in a press release. Right wing pundit links the press release. Some knuckle-draggers make threatening comments to the protestors, sending the left-wing of the blogosphere into a tizzy. The protestors achieve exalted victim status! The left-wing knuckle draggers man their keyboards, and begin the threats …
What to Make of This?
I really don’t know what to make of this: Thousands of students walked out of high schools in Los Angeles and across Southern California this morning as protests against restrictions on immigration spread across the city for a fourth day. School walkouts were reported at schools in San Diego and Orange counties, and in the …
More on Cheney’s Hunting
Ezra Klein writes: One thing to be clear on: Dick Cheney wasn’t hunting. He wasn’t doing what Ted Nugent does, or what Indians used to do. Cheney was killing things. I have to agree: Monday’s hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and …
The Diet Wars
As I am currently trying to shed a few pounds, any story that has the word diet in it catches my eyes: The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect. Journal of the American Medical Association …