Our national myth is a story of brave individuals, carving out trails in the wilderness; lone colonies standing up against the British Empire; homesteaders and their little houses on the prairie. That’s not the whole of it though. That’s like saying that a movie is the product of the actors, and forgetting that long list of names that scroll by at ( Read more... )

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As seen at psybelle:

"Marriage is a civil institution at least as far back as Henry VIII. It is a civil contract administered by the State. Holy Matrimony is a sacrament created and administered by the Church. I don't want their sacrament; they should stop interfering with my contract."

(snagged from comments at Mother Jones - a quick read about some ( Read more... )

I think my reaction is best summed up as GODDAMN EVIL MOTHERFUCKERS ( Read more... )

From bradhicks:

The observation has been widely made that ordinary cities don't collapse from an earthquake the size of the one that just hit Port au Prince, and ordinary countries have better and more widely dispersed disaster recovery teams of their own. Haiti, though, is special, and there's a reason for that: From 1804 to the present, during all but a ( Read more... )

The Stupak amendment to the health care bill, which blocks even private insurance companies from covering abortion services, passed - with 64 Democrats supporting it.I don't have words. Well, not words permissible in polite company. What is wrong with these... people? I'm sure that some of them struggled with this in their hearts, and followed ( Read more... )

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Wal-Mart Bans Gay Couple

More than that, they harass them, falsely accuse them, have the police harass them, take their kids away and harass them, and then expect the couple to pay Wal-Mart for goods they did not steal.

Thanks to transversecity for the link.

The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.

Sure.

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