Goddamn, Prop 8 passing is depressing all around.

It's depressing just due to what it is.

It's also depressing because people are suddenly blaming it all on blacks?!!! As though to counteract the sting of one kind of bigotry, the white gays have got to regain some feeling of power by engaging in another. And it's pretty atrocious ( Read more... )

They are still talking about Obama and race on all the news and talk shows. It is not something that I very much want to talk about. ( However... )

USA Today reports that "a record number of soldiers--109--have killed themselves this year" which would be the highest number of suicides since the number first started being counted in 1980. Everyone who says that we must "support our troops" by keeping them in Iraq can fuck off ( Read more... )

You know what sucks ( Read more... )

( I don't usually quote Dan Savage, but... )

I just wanted to say that I'm proud of New Jersey for once.

I'm curious to see where this goes.

I've already posted about the anime "Venus Wars," and of the ridiculousness of running "Join the Army" ads during an obviously anti-war movie the last time I saw it on tv. Today I found a copy of it that I had taped way back in '98, and watched some of it over. It was interesting, on several points, most of them due to its being such a little ( Read more... )

Well, by now we've all heard the great news about the current regime's latest bid for the history books: our government can now torture and detain without trial people they define as "enenemy combatants." Oh, it's still illegal to do anything that would constitute a "grave breach" of the Geneva convention, but we get to decide what's "grave" or ( Read more... )

Ah, the grand state of Virginia. The republican incumbent senator calls an Indian-American man "macaca," and then insists that it was not racially motivated and was not meant as a slur (who'da thunk someone would take offense at being called a monkey?), while as the democratic challenger holds that women cannot be trusted to lead men in combat ( ( Read more... )

chocolate-cameo wrote a good essay on Bush's new rebranding of his war that I wanted to link to.

Enjoy!