One of my friends from HS joined this group, and I had to post an open letter of sorts regarding religion and schools ( Read more... )

Want to rebuild the Republican Party? Stop the bigotry and designs on dismantling the social safety net ( Read more... )

Obama wins with 328 Electoral Votes ( Read more... )

On McCain's campaign imploding into it's own cynical rotteness:

"I am so looking forward to this. Is this schadenfreude? Or does that require at least a veneer of pretending that you're not really taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others? I'm not sure. But I'm looking forward to it anyway."

Exactly.

There's this article about Martin Luther King streets in the US.

I'm surprised they didn't mention the one in Waco, which is the only time I've seen a parenthetical on a highway sign. The highway signs on I-35 for that exit say:

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Martin Luther King Blvd
(Lake Brazos Pkwy)
1/2 mile

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Doesn't seem like much of a tribute to me.

"If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.

The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion."

From here

Steve Jobs calls for recording labels to allow selling DRM-free music.

Fruitcake polling higher than President Bush.

From scarykarrey:

A woman in Florida was jailed for an outstanding warrant after calling the police to report that she had been raped. While in jail for two days, one of the workers there with "religious objections" blocked her from taking the morning after pill as prescribed by a physician ( Read more... )

"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross ( Read more... )