julival, this one's for you ( Read more... )

Look, I know y'all are royally pissed off by this whole healthcare reform thing. I know you're so angry that many of you are not really condemning the people who are throwing bricks through windows and making death threats. But, really, the comparisons to the Kansas-Nebraska Act are just a little over the top, don't you think ( Read more... )

So, let me see if I have this right....

CBS approves a pro-life Super Bowl commercial and then rejects a gay dating Super Bowl commercial, all the while claiming it's not political.

Anyone actually buying that?

I am really sick of hearing about the White House gate crashers and, frankly, I think they ought to throw them in jail and bring charges. If some average Joe Blow citizen had proverbially hopped the fence uninvited to schmooze with the pres and co., does anyone think the Secret Service wouldn't have had them kneeling on the ground in handcuffs as ( Read more... )

News Media: please, please, please, please, PLEASE!! stop beginning your news headlines with the words "...a devout Muslim." Do you people know what this does to Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent? What it does to the people who already hate us, despise us, are suspicious of us, think we're not "real Americans" because our blood or ( Read more... )

Here we go, julival.

In yesterday's elections, among other happenings, the electorate in Maine voted to strike down the state's law allowing gay marriage, by a 53-47 margin ( Read more... )

Even though I think the Nobel Peace Price jumped the shark ages ago and is practically useless (Arafat? Gorbachev? Al Gore? But no Gandhi or Pope John Paul II? Bah!), I am thoroughly enjoying watching the right-wingers snivel helplessly among themselves at Obama winning this year's award (e.g. "So what! Only Europeans care about the Prize anyway ( Read more... )

DUN DUN DUN...


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That I find the backstabbing among Senate Democrats fascinating ( Read more... )

Political Animal is my favorite liberal political blog (which my favorite lefty blogger, Kevin Drum, used to write...he's now at Mother Jones) and there was an entry yesterday that I could not have said better had I tried:

Ever since I heard that opponents of Proposition 8 had filed suit to invalidate all the gay marriages that have taken place in ( Read more... )