I am sitting in Starbucks with my Barack Obama shirt on, and I've gotten two "nice shirt"s from my fellow coffee drinkers. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I signed up to receive a text message when Obama picks his VP. You can do by going to this link. It's got to be announced soon. The convention is in 2 weeks. (August 25-28.) I'm ( Read more... )

I just finished a really good book, Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music. It actually came out 2 years ago, but I never got around to reading it until now. It was really interesting - detailing not just the Dixie Chicks controversy, but the history of country music and politics, going all the way back to World War I & II. I learned a ( Read more... )

WTF?!?


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++ Drive-by reminder: Hey Virginians! Did you vote in the primary today? WELL DID YOU?!? ::glares:: ktnb, I swear if you didn't vote I'm totally walking to your house and laying the smack down. ;)

++ Drive-by blog post rec: Someone at DKos did a great post on Labor Unions 101. Very helpful if you're like me and live in a "right to work [for barely ( Read more... )

Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones.

Many of you probably heard about the young woman who was attacked and seriously hurt at goth convention in New Orleans by a fellow con-goer. (And if you are in NOLA or Auburn or Birmingham Alabama, you can keep an eye out for the perpetrator, William Hamlet Hunt.) On her MySpace, ( Read more... )

Jonathan Yardley does a thorough dissection of a new book which argues "In Defense" of the boomers in WaPo (bolding mine):
Himself a baby boomer, born in 1957, Leonard Steinhorn has absolutely no doubt about it: His generation is the greatest generation in the whole history of generations, an even greater generation than -- are you ready for this ( Read more... )

Nifty things to buy, borrow, rent, illegally download, etc:

++ Book: The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken. I haven't gotten a chance to read this yet, but it's Franken, so I'm sure it's brilliant.

++ Book: New Rules by Bill Maher. Basically a compilation of older rants from his tv show, but still worth the cover price, especially if you don't ( Read more... )

The article I was talking about in my previous post was inspired by the third movie installment based of the Left Behind series. (There's 14 books total, so I could be making A LOT of these posts in the future. *sigh*)

Now, if you're unfamiliar with the Left Behind series, let me sum up from Wikipedia: ( Click )

As fairy_tale_echo pointed out to me, September 24-October 1 is Banned Books Week. Whoo! Please, please do a couple things for me. One, read her blog post about the importance of this week from a Librarian's perspective. Two, find some banned books and DECIDE FOR YOURSELF whether you think banning is a good idea. Check out the Banned Books Online site, browse ( Read more... )

Scariest.Book.Ever.
Would you let your child read blatantly liberal stories with titles such as "King & King," "No, George, No," or "It's Just a Plant"? Unless you live in Haight-Ashbury or write for the New York Times, probably not. But with the nation’s libraries and classrooms filled with overtly liberal children’s books advocating everything ( Read more... )