So the other day at the store I actually looked at the Hostess display and thought, I kind of want some Ho Hos and those gross but yummy orange cupcakes. I didn't buy any for some reason. And now? Not so much ( Read more... )

Carlos Santana was booed at Baseball's Annual Civil Right's Game for...talking about civil rights.

From the article:

Carlos Santana took the microphone and said that he was representing all immigrants. Then Santana added, "The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves." In a perfect display of Gov ( Read more... )

Mildred Loving dies at 68.All she and her husband wanted was to have their marriage legally recognized in the state they lived in. Only problem? She was Black and he was white and that didn't play well too well in Virginia in 1958; in fact, their marriage was illegal. In 1967 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld their right to be married, a ( Read more... )

"We don't have to wake up worrying about the next meal. But there are a lot of Americans who do. I think it's wrong. I think it's immoral that in the U.S., the richest country in the world, people are hungry."Four members of Congress are living on a Food Stamp budget. The co-chairs of the House Hunger Caucus--Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jo ( Read more... )

My fellow Americans...

So there's a bill--H.R. 1246--to repeal the Armed Forces "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy before the House of Representatives, and it really doesn't take a hell of a lot of time to drop a line to your Congressperson asking them to support the bill. In fact, HRC makes it easy for you with a convenient form letter so you don't ( Read more... )

Fruitcake, Brussels sprouts and in-laws all poll higher than George Bush.

Also, where the hell does the Australian PM get off trying to lay the smack down on Barack Obama's Iraq policy?! Stick to your own upcoming election, dude.

ETA: restriction has explained that the more Howard looks like a jerk the more of a chance they have of getting rid of him, so ( Read more... )

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Do you live in a country where law enforcement can come and take people away and hold them indefinitely, denying them the right of habeas corpus ( Read more... )

Somehow Adventure Out Women got our address and sent us a little card of upcoming events. And while I'm all, "you go, sisters, with your Napa Valley Wine and Wealth Seminar and your snow shoeing group and so on," I'm thinking, weird how there is nothing at all about politics on their site anywhere.I was probably thinking of that in particular ( Read more... )