Now the hoping starts
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Obama (rightly) declares victory. Now, just how ugly is it going to get? UPDATE: And here's his speech. Not bad at all. Read the transcript here.
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Obama (rightly) declares victory. Now, just how ugly is it going to get? UPDATE: And here's his speech. Not bad at all. Read the transcript here.
2 down, 48 to go — with an ugly chaser
Saturday, May 17th, 2008OK, you've heard that the California Supremes have ruled that you can't ban gay marriage under the CA state constitution, making California the second state to have real, no second-tier "civil union" marriage for gay people. And the Governator, no big supporter of gay marriage, has said he won't ...
Governor John
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Shit. We get a guy who looks like a take-no-prisoners kick-ass Dem in as NY Governor, and he gets taken down by spending $5K a pop on prostitutes: Spitzer Is Linked to a Sex Ring as Client. And he's not even going to get the piggish guy sympathy, because his ...
God, race, and President Obama
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008As the chances that Obama will be the Dem running in the fall grow, so do my fears about the fundamental racial and religious (even though the guy's clearly Xian) biases that will be in play. Want a taste? Check out this scary bit from Rocketboom that my ...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Sunday, January 20th, 2008The only thing we have to change is change itself.(This meme is all over the place; this is a nice edit of it.)
More Orwellian “Christian Nation” lies make their way through Congress
Saturday, January 5th, 2008House Resolution 888 is attempting to enact a Stalinesque (or is it Orwellian?) rewrting of U.S. history to officially encode lies about our history painting a picture of the good and true Xian nation that has slowly been undermined by evil secularists, and officially establishes a Ministry of Truth to ...
Larry Craig gay sex audio
Friday, December 28th, 2007OK, not quite -- but the audio of interviews with a bunch of guys describing their man-on-man with Senator "Wide Stance" Craig. From the Idaho Statesman, Idaho's #1 news source (insert punchline here): More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig. I love that this is the actual ...
Border crossing
Monday, August 6th, 2007We took Oz into Canada for the first time last week on vacation. (We went to Niagara Falls, where we'd gone to get married 11 years (!) ago.) Nice trip, and people were, as usual, nice to us in spite of our being American. (And how could they tell so ...
Impeachment is for war crimes, not blowjobs
Friday, July 13th, 2007From the American Research Group, the kind of poll numbers I like: A majority of Americans want Cheney impeached, and Bush is only slightly behind with 45% in favor. And who's pushing the case in the U.S. House? The toughest little man in congress, Dennis the Menace!