Chris Matthews totally shreds belligerent simpleton and shrieking right-wingnut Kevin James on Hardball the other night.
Brilliant.
The Bush administration has no problem with torture, so what they should do is strap loyal toady Kevin James into a chopper, hook him up to an amp, and fly him over Afghanistan as an aural warfare device to torment [...]
M-a-r-r-y-i-ng!
Okay, so there’s one syllable too many, but that’s for the extra awesome in this story:
May 16, 2008
Marriage Equality Comes to California
By George Takei
Our California dream is reality. Brad Altman and I can now marry. We are overjoyed! At long last, the barrier to full marriage rights for same-sex couples has been torn down. We [...]
Yarrow was put to sleep on 17 April, 2008, the day before I flew to New York for a much-needed week-long break, spent with my friends.
That week was able to distract me, more or less, from missing Yarrow, but it wasn’t able to distract me entirely, and now that I’ve been home a week and [...]
From today’s Writer’s Almanac newsletter. I really like this one.
Posthumous
Would it surprise you to learn
that years beyond your longest winter
you still get letters from your bank, your old
philanthropies, cold flakes drifting
through the mail-slot with your name?
Though it’s been a long time since your face
interrupted the light in my door-frame,
and the last tremblings of your [...]
