I thought I wouldn't listen to news this morning because - oh, I don't know. Something just seems wrong with that plan ( Read more... )

I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise, but at Liberty University, it's worse to have an abortion than be racist.

Thanks for making Virginians sounds like idiots, guys. Nice job.

What makes me titter, though, is that if you look up liberty university it actually says:
Founded in 1971, LU is an independent, fundamentalist Baptist university ( Read more... )

When I went to the votey place this morning, the woman who asked me what ballot I wanted told me I was dressed like a Republican (well, after I told her I was voting Republican today).

Is there a "republican" way to dress? And if so, what is it? I'm flummoxed.

I felt surprisingly bad for the Democrat guy whose ballot I did not ask for, but I ( Read more... )

I've stopped blogging much or doing political lj'ing much lately, because the whole 2-party thing is really really really depressing me. Is it me, or just the fundamental wrongness? Hard to tell.

But you know the state of political debate is in a bad way when the Daily Show makes you want to cry ( Read more... )

I'm dreading the impending media rehashing of the school shooting in Minnesota.

( I'll tell you why (long and ranting, from blog) )

Seriously. They can pass a bill in a matter of hours to interfere with decisions COURTS HAVE ALREADY MADE, but they can't get their shit together to straighten out healthcare or prescription drug issues?

Yeah, I'm feeling really good about the legislative branch today.

Blasted snow. It's been snowing all morning, and I wish it would stop the fuck up already or make a firm commitment to a real Snow Day. Either way. This middle ground of snow falling and falling and falling without me getting to nestle in my house is no good. Grump ( Read more... )

There is a tiny part of me that thinks "real" Republicanism would be okay. That is, if folk who bill themselves as "conservative" were actually about conserving government spending and not servants of a fundamentalist social agenda, I might at least trust those folk a bit more than "liberals" who are only pro-gay or pro-woman or pro-child with ( Read more... )

Following on the recent spate of "Egads! Virginia is the devil!" legislative news, missmeridian has started a useful community for watchdogging the state's political maneuvers: watchdog_va.

Y'all liberal Virginians should join. Who knows what will happen next? Oh, wait - you will... if you're paying attention.

The Well Time Period is doing my VA Legislature homework for me this session. I love how the internet just drops these little things in my lap these days.

The latest? A bill making it a felony to give a minor birth control if you think the sex they're using it for is a statutory violationBut. We have duty-to-report laws in place already for ( Read more... )