In the wake of all the "NO OBAMACARE" blah blah blah ( Read more... )

So we have another teenager who has committed suicide due to bullying, bullying that focused on his perceived sexual orientation. Some charmer in comments whined of course about how "Kids are bullied all the time, but now there's a string of gay kids committing suicide and suddenly it's SOCIETY'S FAULT". There's also of course the usual "they need ( Read more... )

Well, unless you convince them through complete fear and preying on insecurities. Which doesn't actually make allies, it makes 'subjects' or 'pawns'. Which isn't what progressives/liberals should be doing. Of course, some do- but we shouldn't, and we should always call them on it ( Read more... )

So. Education ( Read more... )

Y'know, I got ranty about this on Twitter, and I've ranted about it in real life and in internet chats and on some communities here on LJ that I've been in. But yeah, last night the Texas School Board was found to have done horrible, asshole, conservative things to textbooks that will be shared by students in other states ( Read more... )

Do any of you people who think it's acceptable to leave comments on the internet or confront fatties in real life have folks constantly badgering you about things they find 'offensive' about you? Telling you you're a waste of air, that you should die? Do any of you feel you have to have prepared a script of explanation about why you are X, where X ( Read more... )

After all, omg, CRIMINALS DISOBEY THEM! And they mean the 'good guys!' don't have them close to hand ( Read more... )

I like to paint and draw ( Read more... )

Here's a piece that talks a little more clearly and better about the 'slippery slope' people are sliding into when they whine in the health care reform debatacle (yeah, it's less a debate and more a debacle now). People who say they don't want to pay for the fatty fat fat people who are health risks, or the gay people who are health risks/STD ( Read more... )

So I went to a blog post linked elsewhere about the whole fatophobia that's becoming de riguer at health care "debates" along with the blah blah socialism marxism nazism, mah guns mah country back, GODDAMN DINING ROOM TABLES stuff ( Read more... )