Fuck You, Bart Gordon.

I'm remembering something a blogger (think it was ginmar) had written on their info page ( Read more... )

Salon Radio: Rep. Alan Grayson on de-funding corrupt defense contractors. Congress just unintentionally enacted a bill de-funding America's 10 largest defense contractors.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) -- my guest on Salon Radio today -- yesterday pointed out that the bill passed by both the Senate and House to de-fund ACORN is written so broadly ( Read more... )

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On Thursday afternoon, Thomas gave a clinic in fortitude to President Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, during the briefing. "Has the president given up on the public option?" she inquired from her front-row-middle seat ( Read more... )

Alabama Supreme Court upholds ban on sex toys

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on the sale of sex toys, but Love Stuff, the Hoover store that filed the challenge, has no plans to stop selling the devices ( Read more... )

I think this post kind of sums up what's been rattling around in my brain...below is just the final snippet.

Teddy's legacy, then, is complicated. A man of privilege, who used it cynically for his own benefit. A man of privilege, who used it generously to try to change the world and. And maybe to salve his own conscience. Even as he believed ( Read more... )

In my long experience of being a Texan---and one who grew up in a rural area, though I live in a blue city now---I can safely say that I’ve never met a gun nut who wasn’t reacting to deep masculine insecurities with a heavy dose of racism to make it worse. In a way, I’m being unfair, because the statement I made was probably a tautology. A lot of ( Read more... )

I would have more respect for (individuals or groups) who claim to support/further men's rights, who may start of talking about things like underfunding/lack of attention to prostate cancer (which it is and more men [and women] should be mobilizing to bring more public attention)...

If they didn't (seem to inevitably) follow up with shit like ( Read more... )

White House spokesman bashes Brit press for torture reports

“I don’t want to speak generally about some reports I’ve seen over the past few years in the British media,” he said. “And, in some ways I’m surprised it filtered down. Let’s just say if I wanted to read - if I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared in the Champion’s ( Read more... )

...But I lack drive.

Well.

That and I'm wanting also to analyze some pop/cultural things.

Or else just splash around in my fiction pool. (I've been putting off sketching a possible scene for Within a Forest DarkI kind of want to do that music meme writing exercise again, too. (Which I could do right now as I have my mp3 player with me ( Read more... )