An interesting HuffPo article about two kids who took their parents' cars and how they are receiving very different treatment. It fits right in with a guy chasing and killing a kid then being found not-guilty and a woman injuring nobody while warding off a threatening person and getting 20 years. The people who claim there's no racism in our ( Read more... )

A brief supporting California's Proposition 8, supporting the ban on gay marriage, has a hilarious argument. As pointed out in an article, they say ""Because same-sex relationships cannot naturally produce offspring, they do not implicate the State’s interest in responsible procreation and child rearing in the same way that opposite-sex ( Read more... )

The Republicans spend so much time looking backwards, it's a pity they can't do it honestly ( Read more... )

As both Democrats and Republicans waffle in their "support" for the protesters in Egypt, they continue the be the idiots we, sadly, expect. Yes, there needs to be a gradual transition, opening press and other freedoms to create an environment where moderate parties, in between Mubarak's and the Brotherhoods, space to grow and get their ideas out ( Read more... )

Received a junk mail from a political campaign. It was from a Republican candidate for the State legislature. She railed against social spending ( Read more... )

A production platform caught fire. I'm sure most of you have heard that ( Read more... )

One of Dallas' Congressional Representatives in House member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D). It recently came out that she used a scholarship fund for her district's kids to grant funding to family members and children of one of her employees. Nepotism, anyone ( Read more... )

The Mossad was accused of using false New Zealand, Canadian and other passports for a team that killed a terrorist. Investigations were started, ambassadors were yelled at, folks screamed at the top of their lungs ( Read more... )

An AP writer says that the newly passed bill will raise "projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years". He says that means the healthcare bill is a "mixed verdict ( Read more... )

A column in the Daily Beast is yet another pointer to Republican and Tea Bagger hypocrisy. John Avlon points out two interesting things about this tax year and Congress ( Read more... )