So what's next for Bush & Co.?
I started writing this as a response to a post about going into Iran:Go into Iran? I have no doubt that they want to do that. But they have nothing to go into Iran WITH! We're already overextended in...
View ArticleLiberals are so intolerant!
Mark Morford was so good today in the SF Chronicle it's hard to know where to begin. Here's just the start of his answer to the rethugs asking him "where is that famous so-called tolerance I thought...
View ArticleIs your priest gay?
Yes friends, it has come to this. As John Aravosis writes at Americablog: "the Vatican is now making clear that the sexual tension a normal adult feels in the company of other adults leads those normal...
View ArticleMr. Sulu comes out.
George Takei, best known for playing Mr. Sulu in the original Star Trek series has officially come out as a gay man in the Los Angeles gay paper Frontiers. George and his partner Brad Altman have been...
View ArticleCan we beat the rethugs at their own game?
In an excellent, but underrated diary End Game: The Elephant Gambit Denied, which I highly recommend, GreyHawk likened current political events (and in particular, republican losses) to a high stakes...
View ArticleXmas' Greatest Hits (no poll)
OK, so it's a dubious choice of diary topics given that I'm an urban hermit and confirmed old curmudgeon and plan to order pizza today before Pizza Orgasmica closes, but here goes. This is my all-time...
View ArticleAction Alert: Web Braille Shut Down for "Security" Reasons
Earlier today, mjohnson posted a diary about the shutdown last Thursday of the Library of Congress' National Library Service (NLS) Web Braille site for unnamed "technical and security difficulties"....
View ArticleOlbermann drops the ball on skinheads in the armed forces.
Worst. Segment. Ever! Keith Olbermann (whom I adore) blew it completely tonight. His #2 segment on Countdown (MSNBC) was about the Southern Poverty Law Center ([http://www.splcenter.org SPLC]) report...
View ArticlePatricia Todd wins in Alabama!!!
Patricia Todd is set to be the first openly lesbian member of the AL legislature after beating back a challenge to her win in the Democratic primary runoff (she has no Republican opponent in District...
View ArticleWhat's 'enough' for the Greens?
As someone who has believed for 30 years that we need to 'save the planet' I am continually astonished when I come across what I think are counter-productive attitudes among self-described Greens and...
View ArticleFirst Marine injured in Iraq comes out!
Sgt. Eric Alva, the first Marine injured in Iraq is stepping forward to oppose Don't Ask, Don't Tell.In the Washington Post, Alva, who lost his right leg to a landmine, speaks out.More after the break...
View ArticleRichardson still doesn't get it.
Gov. Bill Richardson has been trying to 'fix' his flubs at the Logo/HRC forum last week from the moment he walked off the stage. But it doesn't seem to be helping. Now he has talked about it in an...
View ArticleMilitary Campaign Appearances: IOKIYAR
Ahh, the old double standard--military personnel are prohibitied from appearing in uniform at political campaign events UNLESS it's for a republican.From the Boston Globe:Seven on-duty Army personnel...
View ArticleBREAKING! Laws don't stop abortions.
To quote Gomer Pyle, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"Women are just as likely to get an abortion in countries where it is outlawed as they are in countries where it is legal, according to research...
View ArticleI'm a gay white male amputee with ADD NOT voting for that gay white male...
BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ONE. So unless you're an albino lesbian dwarf, or a Lithuanian Canasta addict with Rosacea, would y'all kindly STFU because I don't want to hear about it. Black...check....
View ArticleNo gays at this debate! (NOT!)
Well, fuck this fucking shit.They had a Democratic debate in Las Vegas tonight (but Brian Williams thought he was in Los Angeles--for this he gets millions and millions of dollars).So not only did the...
View ArticleMoses 'high' on Mt. Sinai.
Moses was stoned. That's what Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy."As far as Moses on Mount Sinai is...
View ArticleWe're all Possums.
HuffPo is reporting that Sen. Obama has unveiled a new emblem that combines his campaign logo, the presidential seal, and "Yes, we can!" in latin.It sucks.More after the flip...
View ArticleWhere are all the Obamabots?
I'm freaking serious here, people. Where are all the koolaid drinkers who were shoving Obama down our throats 24/7 and endlessly calling Hillary the antichrist now that they could possibly do some...
View ArticleSWAT Teams Raid Christian Biker Gang!
I swear, you can't make this shit up. According to the AP, police in Orange and Riverside Counties (California) arrested eight members of the "Set Free Soldiers" gang (apparently they don't believe in...
View ArticleNo AmEx Card? TSA is waiting for you!
That's the message of an American Express commercial airing now (I just saw it on the rerun of Keith Olbermann!).A man tries to buy an airline ticket at the ticket counter. He's dressed in a business...
View ArticleCinemark/Century Theaters CEO Anti-Gay Donor
Courtesy of Americablog, we learn that Cinemark CEO Alan Stock from Plano, TX, gave $9,999 to support passage of Prop 8.Cinemark owns 2700 screens in 13 countries in North and South America, including...
View ArticleHillary Rodham Clinton, 67th Secretary of State!
We have a new Secretary of State. Late this afternoon, after the confirmation vote in the Senate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as the 67th Secretary of State of the United States of...
View ArticlePower Co. kills 93-year-old man. (Updated x3)
Marvin E. Schur froze to death in his home near Saginaw, MI after his power was restricted by the power company over his backlog of $1000 in unpaid bills.Bay City Manager Robert Belleman told the AP...
View ArticleGays made the Boys Scouts do illegal logging! (Updated x2)
Yes, those poor defenseless Boy Scouts--the evil gays and athieists forced them to illegally clear-cut timber from many of their properties around the country, impact endangered species, and generally...
View ArticleSpecter and the Blue Dogs
A lot has been written over the past three days about what the Specter defection means for the Republican party. But every lesson for them is potentially the same lesson for us.Writing on...
View ArticlePunking the Birthers...Priceless!!! [UPDATED x2]
Finally the other shoe drops--an anonymous blogger has come forward with evidence that the "Republic of Kenya" birth certificate was, in fact, forged. And the sweet thing is--it was a deliberate act to...
View ArticleWe have a black President.
Those words are likely the motivation behind so many in the birther, deather, and various hater movements ostensibly opposing the President's policies.They look at a picture of the first family with...
View ArticleNo Amputee Left Behind! (Healthcare Reform)
In any effort at Healthcare Reform, there is a major issue to be addressed--parity in coverage for ALL conditions, diseases, and treatments, including mental health (which is a very big one). This...
View ArticlePetition to Impeach President Obama
I'm undercover behind the Orange Curtain helping my elderly father prepare to move into assisted living. For several months he has been deluged by right wing fundraising mills with hateful anti-Obama...
View Article"Hillary Clinton is out for revenge..."
"...and she's targeting America's Christians."That's the opening to the screed sent to my elderly father from "Christian Voice".But it gets better--more batshit craziness after the jump....
View ArticleKosAbility: What's in a name? (DiSaBiLiTy!!!!!)
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and 8PM ET on Wednesday. It's a gathering place for people living with disabilities, our families and friends, and interested...
View ArticleHow many priests have publically confessed?
Here is the question I am pondering tonight: How many priests have publically confessed to molesting children? How many bishops or cardinals have confessed to covering up these crimes?The credibility...
View ArticleMen in red capes (Freep this poll). UPDATE
A recent addition to the NOM bus tour (against same-sex marriage) are the clean cut young men in their oh-so-attractive red capes and gold heraldic lion brooches. They're from American Society for the...
View ArticleMcCain's DADT Bigotry exposed.
There's an excellent article today by Aaron Belkin in the Huffington Post.In it, he disects McCain's supposedly "principled" opposition to repeal of DADT and exposes it as "anything but". As Belkin...
View ArticleDemocracy's last stand...this time!
The assault on working people in WI and MI today and across more than a dozen states (all outside the South) is the latest battleground for working people in America--but unfortunately it is stacked...
View ArticleFOUND!!! My friend WAS missing from Disneyland.
UPDATE 9:43pm--We just found Nick sitting at the bus stop in front of Disneyland. He had been there all night. After 36 hours he's on his way home now.MORE--His Dad and the detective in the family were...
View ArticleKosAbility: Hair today, gone tomorrow!
I lost my leg, I lost my dream job, I lost my mind, and now I'm losing my hair (not necessarily in that order). In a matter of a few weeks I've gone from having a head of snowy white hair and a full...
View ArticleHomeless or Dead?
After a hellacious week, I was informed today that come July 1 I’ll be homeless. My landlord, who is my best friend’s mother, wants me to move out so her grandson from NC can move in. She has been...
View ArticleThe IRS Non-Scandal
This is a sad time for the progressosphere--our precious logic crystals are depleting rapidly and our independent thinking capacity is becoming compromised.More after the swirling elegant orange...
View ArticleFacing Double Eviction
This is the rant of the working poor--the thousands of us who are trying to survive this recession and the war on workers. We're tired. We're tired and broken and worn down and sick of the...
View ArticleMy Birth Control Rant
OK, so SCOTUS has made another assault on American values (yes, most Americans are in favor of birth control).One more time--let's cover the basics (after the squiggly orange sphincter)...
View ArticleOrlando Hypocrites
The Huffington Post is reporting that several churches in the Orlando area are offering the use of their facilities free of charge to families of the Pulse nightclub massacre.The religious community in...
View ArticleNot. My. President.
I sucked it up 16 years ago when the Supreme Court stole the election and made W our president.I REFUSE to go there again.FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT.My country died yesterday. You can’t put lipstick on...
View ArticleJim Wallis gets it wrong...Again!
Subtitle: Jim Wallis is a self-serving asshat...AGAIN!!!As soon as I read the title of Wallis’ latest screed on HuffPost“Politically Homeless: How Both Parties Are Leaving A Generation Of Christians...
View ArticleRIP Leon Redbone
Today the family of singer and guitarist Leon Redbone announced that he has died. He was a favorite among my college music crowd in the mid-’70s after we were introduced to him on Saturday Night Live....
View ArticleWhat if Biden chooses a US Senator?
There has been some discussion of the impact of Biden choosing a sitting US Senator as his running mate, but I haven’t seen a post detailing the implications for control of the Senate depending on the...
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St. Louis Mayor Doxxes constituents who want to defund the police.
As excerpted in a post on RawStory, people are calling on the Mayor of St. Louis to resign.“St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson took some time out from a public briefing on COVID-19 Friday to read aloud the...
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