Must read on the OWS protests.

The news this week has not been good.

Yesterday's horrors in Norway are only beginning to be examined and worked through.

A huge talent has lost her battle with her demons.

The U.S. government can't agree on something that has been routine until now ( Read more... )

Anything I had to say on the subject of the killing of Osama bin Laden came out on my Twitter feed that night, so feel free to read there. I managed to mostly stay out of arguments about it, though I did have to regulate on someone posting idiotic comments on my FB page. (This guy friend requests me, I accept because I think I know him (though I ( Read more... )

Last month I had lunch with an old and dear friend, a woman who's been a mentor to me since my late teens. As we were catching up, we got to talking about social issues, including women's rights and feminism. I said that I seem to be getting more and more radical as I get older, and she agreed that she is, too. Contrary to what we're told as we ( Read more... )

Microaggressions.

Letter From Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of ( Read more... )

There's this interview with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia going around, which contains this exchange:
Q: In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does ( Read more... )

Finally, DADT is dead. An end to an anti-American policy. The U.S. should never build discrimination into its laws and institutions.

"It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions." -Harvey Milk

Are the American people obsolete? The richest few don't need the rest of us as markets, soldiers or police anymore. Maybe we should all emigrate

Have the American people outlived their usefulness to the rich minority in the United States? A number of trends suggest that the answer may be yes ( Read more... )

I wore my purple today, in support of ending the suicides of LGBT people who are victims of bullying, despair and a world that frankly sucks at supporting them.
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