This is an open letter to that 30% of Hillary's supporters who are threatening to vote for McCain ONLY because Hillary didn't get the nomination ( Read more... )

This is not cut on purpose, if you are pro-life, just skip this, if you don't want to read ranting about reproductive health issues, skip this. But it is too important to me to tuck behind a cut. None of my major news sources have brought this up without some digging, so clearly it needs to get out there ( Read more... )

( Okay, so I've gotten into this with some of you in the past, so I'm putting this behind a cut, with this caveat. I do not think it's okay for >20 year olds to be having relationships with <17 year olds. Point blank. They are in different life places, and as such, the >20 year old needs to grow up and live their life as an adult, and allow the <17 to live theirs as a child. This is one of those that I really have no desire to debate, at all. So yeah, if you want to comment, be aware of how *strongly* I feel about this. Pei's commentary on the FLDS situation, back here. )

( Why neocons piss me off, and the thing that frustrates me about their depictions of we liberals: or, a response to the lies told about hippies. Or, National Pride, Marriage, Abortions and Israel, oh my! )

( this is public because I think it's important. See the title, click if you are so inclined based on that, keeping in mind that although I have no problem with being disagreed with - I go into this with a particularly low opinion of the importance of sports on a global level, and feel that the likelihood that they actually )

( IPCC Global Warming Report )

Ya' know what ( Read more... )