Bush is crazy. Although, perhaps not as crazy as Eric Keroack, the new potential Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs.  The highlights of his philosophies include:

• Condoms offer "virtually no protection."  (Boy have I been lucky then!)
  
• Abortions increase your risk for breast cancer by 8 times.

And my all time favourite opinion of Keroack:

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I found this quote highly entertaining on Tuesday night's Colbert Report:

Don't think you're off the hook voters, you're the ones who made this bed and now you're the ones who'll have to move so a gay couple can sleep in it.  Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of ( Read more... )

Allen has officially admitted defeat in VA!  Woot!

Well, I must say I'm quite happy with the elections. We've got control of the House. We've got the first female speaker of the House. We've got the first Muslim Congressman. Deval won the MA Governorship. Not to mention, he's the first black governor in MA and only the second in the country (ever). My leading lady Hillary was re-elected. And ( Read more... )

I'm having a few (new) issues with the U.S. these days (as if that's anything new!).  Sometimes I feel that as I sit here, across the ocean, thousands of miles away, the U.S. is falling further and further into shame and corruption.  Perhaps it's the light that the U.K. sheds on the situation, but I do read the NY Times pretty much everyday, so I ( Read more... )