Please give me a reason to be excited about an Obama-Biden ticket.

Cause it kinda sounds like "Obama for change! ...that looks astoundingly like the status quo!" - and while that makes a clever t-shirt, it doesn't get me jazzed about the campaign.

Last week I voted for Clinton. Which I did, honestly, because both she and Obama are decent candidates on many issues I care about, enough that they were essentially even in my mind. And she's female ( Read more... )

Here's an explanation of how the privilege exercise works in a classroom - which is where it was intended to be used. And more from the source. I'm intrigued by the statement that ... the people on one end of the room had to work harder to be here today than the people at the other end of the room. It's followed later in the exercise by a statement ( Read more... )

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.

Y'all, I learned something awe-striking this week. Richmond? Does not have to have homeless people ( Read more... )

San Diego Mayor. Thanks, trinityva. And other people.

I know that legislative change is important, but it's the individual people processing change that really gets me.

It must be true, because the internets told me. This quiz was greatly entertaining. Enjoy.


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In case you didn't catch it on NPR this morning, on CNN, or on any other major national news source, here's the Post article on how racist and mean Prince William County isMy intrepid reporter friend told me last week that they were considering the Great Stupidity, and now it's official. Thanks, NOVA, for making Virginia appear to be populated with ( Read more... )

I'm just reposting stuff that Paul posts from now on. Cause, if I missed Fat Hate Bingo, what kind of fattivist am I?

No kind at all, I tell ya.

There are equivalent Anti-Feminist Bingo (and a subset just for comics), variants about racism and white liberals... "gay bingo", on the other hand, is a search string that nets a variety of drag-based ( Read more... )

This started as a comment on fatshionista, but I want to expand upon it.

PETA's talking trash at Michael Moore, and of course they're calling him a Fatty McFatterson. It's just PETA. That's what they do. And I mean, really? Michael Moore, of all people, ought to be able to take a little of what he dishes out (not the fat, just the fundamental disregard for ( Read more... )