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I haven't ever heard Marco Rubio speak Spanish, but supposedly (and unsurprisingly) he speaks it with a Cuban accent. So he's delivering the SOTU response tonight in English and Spanish. I wonder if he will go with his regular cubano or try to mexicano or puertorriqueño it up ( Read more... )

I answer Len's questions about politics but I don't say things to him like "that person is evil." We talk about ideas instead and I ask him what he thinks. For example, he is absolutely boggled by the idea that any two people of whatever race or gender identity should not be able to get married ( Read more... )

Tim Wise said it best.

http://www.timwise.org/2010/11/an-open-letter-to-the-white-right-on-the-occasion-of-your-recent-successful-temper-tantrum/

Mike Huckabee says gays should not be allowed to adopt children because "children are not puppies."

Uh, OK. No, they aren't. And plenty of gay people I know are very competent pet owners. But what's your point, Mike?

I can say something just as ridiculous, like "Southern Baptists shouldn't be allowed to drive because cars are not toaster ovens."

So if I pose naked, I can be a senator?

... unless they were for Iraq War supporters ( Read more... )

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Palin's farewell speech read by beatnik William Shatner.

http://gawker.com/5324623/north-to-the-future

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