Now that DOMA is overturned and Prop 8 is dead ( Read more... )

Since I'm a government worker, today I'm not getting paid as part of the government sequester (fuck you very much, Republican Congressholes - and how about standing up to them once in a while, Democrats ( Read more... )

I just listened to “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” on NPR this morning. One of their guest comedians was right-wing “humor” writer PJ O’Rourke, who was Not Happy that Obama won re-election. He did okay with the regular jokes along with the other panellists - Martha Stewart jokes, jokes about people acting dumb, etc ( Read more... )

You know, the kind where the lions pace into the arena...and then lie down, crack a beer, and calmly watch as the Christians eat each other.

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Considering Santorum's previous record of attacking women and gays en masse, demanding that Puerto Ricans speak English if they want to be a state, and accusing black people of being lazy welfare leeches (excuse me, "blah" people), his latest gaffe is surprising only in that it was caught on tape before an audience ( Read more... )

Isn't it interesting that the Faux News and the Religious Reich would discover a nonexistent "War On Christmas" (fomented by pagans, homosexuals, Democrats, and feminists -- you know, all those people who caused 9/ll according to Jerry Falwell) JUST as their God-Emperor Bush is caught wiretapping American citizens without a search warrant? Can't ( Read more... )

Like most of us, I can't get my head around the fact that an entire city has been destroyed. And that people are starving and dying right in their tracks, by the hundreds. And that a city I remember with such good memories from a visit in 1988 is -- gone.

And I am so full of rage at this unspeakable administration right now...

No, Bush didn't cause ( Read more... )