Still, here is some required reading:

President Clinton - Loyalty Day 2000
President Clinton - Loyalty Day 1999
President Clinton - Loyalty Day 1998
President Clinton - Loyalty Day 1997

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Loyalty Day is, essentially, a Cold War relic that is marked these days by all presidents (no matter their party ( Read more... )

ETA: andrastewhite has clarified her position and I am no longer irked. Please see my mea culpa, written in the appropriate thread. Apologies for the misunderstanding- it was a snap response. I should've slept on it first.

I'm not in the X-Men fandom, but I am acquainted with the moderator of the new ani_mag community via therightfangirl and feel the need to step in here. With ( Read more... )

I've even made a new icon for just this sort of circumstance. Congressman Allen does not represent this hawkish, pro-life, pro-gay-rights, pro-slash, Navy brat Republican, just as the members of the University of Alabama Faculty Senate don't represent my friends on the left. The marketplace of ideas is supposed to be a free and open market.

Watch me avoid politics by pointing all of you to the Londothon and the Rygelthon, where stories continue to trickle in.

And let me also point all present to a twisted little Londo/Cartagia number by selenakThere is a great deal I wish to say, but, alas, not enough time in which to say it. I've had to remove one person from my friends list in the ( Read more... )

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According to the donation record, Michael Eisner of Disney did give to the 2000 Bush campaign. But interestingly, he recently made a $2000 donation to the 2004 Kerry campaign and has supported a number of Democrats in the past.

I did some checking, and as it turns out, both Loyalty Day and the National Day of Prayer were both instituted into public law decades ago and have been observed by the sitting president via proclamations ever since ( Read more... )

I've just purchased and intend to read Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History. Because I think current political rhetoric needs a serious perspective infusion ( Read more... )

Saturday night, my friends Jason and Daniel invited me to a showing of Shattered Glass, a movie whose release is amazingly timely in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, which contributed to the unseating of Raines at the New York Times. A relatively straight-forward telling of the events that lead to the disgrace of Stephen Glass, former ( Read more... )