(this has been shamelessly copied from eruvande's facebook page ( Read more... )

So some extremist church in Florida wants to bracket itself with Phelps' crew of frothing fundamentalists in the Westboro Baptist Church and stage a public bonfire of Korans this Sept 11. Fine. Others have already pointed out this is the international diplomacy equivalent of shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre (thanks to unixronin for the link), so I ( Read more... )

This year has had a slew of protests against everyone and everything. Out of all the sound and fury, a few gems of protest signs came out, with this as my personal favorite:


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I've long known that Hollywood exists in a world of its own that only happens to share the same space-time coordinates with planet Earth. Most times I can ignore that, but events this week have made the disparity between their reality and ours unavoidable.

( let's get this outrage party started! )

elsewhere in my Flist, strega42 has posted this rant on the nature of health care reform, and I think it worth reposting here for those on my list and not hers (with a bit of minor HTML tweaking for good measure):

[...]I'm not going to link to her post, because health care reform is one of those topics that easily turns into an unintended flame war, and I ( Read more... )

Or, "Pick your poison"

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It seemed appropriate to post this today, especially considering that a nearly pristine copy was just unearthed in the British archives:

(with thanks to lwj2)

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ( Read more... )

The more I pay attention to the political goings-on in the world, the more I'm convinced that there's something in governmental water supplies that drains all politicians of every stripe and nationality of all semblance of common sense.

The latest insult to my faith in government? The FDA's declaration that Cheerios are now a drug. Yes, those ( Read more... )

While reading through my Flist this afternoon, I ran across this post by demiurgent and felt it worth reposting for all on my readership to see as well:

When you make a statement like "if we allow homosexuals to marry -- what's to stop the broadening of marriage laws further? What's to prevent people from marrying their animals?" You're equating homosexuals ( Read more... )

quoted with permission from unixronin:

Very few people will deny that Congress is badly broken and needs fixing.

A lot of what’s wrong with Congress doesn’t have simple solutions.  But there are some relatively small changes we could make right now that would make a big difference.

Of course, Congress would hate them...

1. No more voice votes.
   
   Congress uses ( Read more... )