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I don't know what to say about the Alito confirmation that shouldn't already be obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together ( Read more... )

From the NYT coverage of the big annual anti-abortion rally in DC:

Nelly Gray, the founder and president of March for Life, the rally organizers, said overturning Roe was the theme for the rally and, in fiery tone, predicted that the United States would hold the equivalent of Nuremburg trials for "feminist abortionists ( Read more... )

It's wonderful to be back in California, but I think I'm still recovering from the back-to-back stresses of travel and the general debauchery of khayman and leeshers's wedding weekend.

Of course, tinkerbell_mk had more stress than I did and is doing more stuff than I am, so I just might be making excuses for being a lazy ass ( Read more... )

This story is mind-boggling ( Read more... )

Thanks to miriku for the pic:


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From this story on various people interpreting Katrina as a punishment from God on a sinful city (or country):

Ted Steinberg, a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, argues in his 2000 book, "Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America," that Americans have often seen divine will in earthquakes ( Read more... )

"An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, has been rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson ( Read more... )

Well, if this isn't a frighteningly telling turn of phrase, I don't know what is: You know those generally impoverished black people who didn't really have the financial wherewithal to leave in the face of impending disaster? The Army seems to consider them an "insurgency."

“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, ( Read more... )

So, I leave for a week or so, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court kicks it and a major US city is basically destroyed.

Christ.

I hope all the people I know with ties to New Orleans (ancient_dream, tirant, skankalicous) and their loved ones in turn are OK. The Bush administration response to this disaster has basically been a disgrace, and the whole thing has been made ( Read more... )