I am writing to inform you that you have lost my business as a customer because of your donation to MN Forward, a hateful GOP PAC which supports hateful candidates and ideology bent on squashing the human and civil rights of my fellow human beings. Just because a person is gay does not mean [...]
Benedict, Benedict, Benedict — you wacky pontiff. You don’t really get out much, do you?
Joseph Alois Ratzinger, better known to the mindless as Pope Benedict XVI and to the geekful as Pope Sidious, got his job largely as a sympathy fuck after years of faithful and ruthless service under JPII. “He’s almost 80, [...]
This is my response to Tara Wall’s commentary, posted on CNN. I’ve also cut and pasted her commentary below my response, for posterity (hit “wait, I can explain” at the bottom of the post to read it). CNN’s links break and die. CNN also doesnt always post responses, so that’s why I’m [...]
As some of you may or may not know, I do not celebrate Thanksgiving. I commemorate the Indian National Day of Mourning, as begun by Wampsutta, an Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal elder, known also as Frank James, back in 1970 when he was invited to speak on the 350th anniversary of the annual Thanksgiving feast [...]
I’m listening to a Tom Brokaw interview. He’s talking about moderating the second presidential debate last week. During the conversation, he’s mentioned that when working with the candidates to arrange the debate it was a tricky thing to get both camps to agree to follow-up questions from Brokaw himself. Brokaw insisted on [...]
Just a potato sack with four five-week-old kittens inside, tossed them right into a busy intersection. A woman ran for the bag because she noticed it was moving, and rescued one. The rest, she said, were dead. She didnt elaborate, but if you saw the look on her face, she didnt really [...]
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 [...]
