I've been spending way too much time lately concerned with what's happening in politics right now. And it's driving me a wee bit insane thinking about it. It's amazing to me that the Republicans have shown their true colors and are systematically, and rather quickly, dismantling all of the social Safety Nets™ put in place over the years to keep the ( Read more... )

ferricide and I were eating dinner Monday. And the topic of the Westboro Baptist Church came up briefly. We were both unable to adequately describe them in sufficiently horrible terms. English failed us! Perhaps it exists in another language?

So please. . .

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My previous political rant about the "Tea Party" people, and Palin and Beck in particular, being opportunists, is stated much more precisely in this Rachel Maddow interview with Frank Schaeffer. This is much better than my post in several ways: he states his position with better style, he's a (now reformed) founder of the religious right, and, more ( Read more... )

This whole "Tea Party" thing is so threadbare - so threadbare ( Read more... )

Please sit down before you read this!

I hate conservatives. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THEM.

I hope you weren't too shocked. Hug a cat if you're scared.

I don't like you. If you believe that the majority always knows what's best, and if you believe that mob rule and "he who shouts the loudest" is right, and if you believe that gays are less than human and shouldn't be afforded the basic rights that all "normal" people enjoy, then I don't like you.

Do you shout down a grieving mother trying to tell ( Read more... )

How dare you complain about Maine not letting gays marry when there are still kids in Africa dying of AIDS and millions of people without health care and wars in the middle east and high school kids with pimples and illegal immigrants and e-coli in burgers and kids going hungry and Canada?!

Geez! Get your priorities straight.

Shame on you!

Totally "Duh!", but someone finally mentioned it on TV. The GOP talking heads-Beck and Limbaugh-are inciting their lunatic fringe viewers to violence against the President.

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I'm an idiot. So could someone explain to me in simple, one-syllable words why the phrase "wise Latina" makes Judge Sotomayor a racist?

The California Supreme Court essentially decided to neuter the so-called "Good Samaritan" law:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013464273

So, don't expect to be helped by anyone if you're in a car crash.