"...watching conservatives mock liberals for being PC, is like watching the morbidly obese mock Weight Watchers for its system of points."

As someone who confronts her own 'whiteness' and the things that come with it on a regular basis, I gotta tell you that I loved this piece. Its strangely comforting to see that the view is equally cloudy on the ' ( Read more... )

Becasue batocchio/digby says it better than I could...


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40 years after the assasination of MLK, I'm watching the inauguration of the first non-white president of the United States of America.

You don't actaully *know* you are watching history very often.

Mine is on the BBC....*grin*

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From one curly haired girl to another, rock on sista!

So, I tend to check in on the presidental polls every day at work: It's become a bit of habit. Over the past few days Obama has slipped a couple of points - his overall rating was at 7.9% at the begining of the week and now it is at 6.3%.

Now, I am not a fan of all things Obama - in fact I am planning on voting for a third party candidate in order ( Read more... )

http://cbs5.com/local/proposition.8.poll.2.834082.html

Prop 8 is currently polled to pass by 5%.

*slams head against desk*

*This* is a socially liberal state?!? In what universe?

Prediction or fantasy: I'm holding on to it forfuture reference:

From ClusterStock, Oct. 1, 2008:

Now that the government has been terrified into rubber-stamping the bailout, what happens now?

In our opinion, here's the most likely scenario:

• Hank Paulson & Co. survey the banking industry and decide who will stay and who will go. JP Morgan (JPM), Citi ( ( Read more... )

( Somewhere in the cosmos...Shel Silverstein is being channeled by a really pissed off American Citizen. And this is what is sounds like: )

( How do I pull a Frankenstein's Monster on Thomas Jefferson? )