Not getting home until late last night, and between chores and errands and a late snowstorm/wind/icy patches complicating all not getting an uninterrupted stretch to read my flist until late today, I hadn't realized that yesterday was a declared "Blog Against Torture Day" (this one was not well publicized - I didn't see it anywhere but on LJ) so ( Read more... )

or, Why RAH Should Not Be Taken As An Infallible Moral Guide, Even By ConservatariansJohn Stossel is one of those wingnuts I haven't dealt with before (iirc) mostly because a) he's on TV mostly and I don't have any reception, b) he's not one of the theocrat-wannabes or pseudo-Classicists of my old association, he's one of the Meocons, c) other ( Read more... )

These people are pathetic beyond belief.There's a lot more serious stuff going on out there in the news, as ever, but this hits particularly close to home for me - there but for the grace of God I - and it's in its own way emblematic of the whole problem of reality-based vs. wishthink-based communities, and the fundamental incoherence of the US ( Read more... )

No, I'm not talking about people who believe that other people have a duty to accept being discriminated against and profiled and brutalized by the police and bombed and besieged into starvation for generations without ever getting angry and responding in kind, this time ( Read more... )