No 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...
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