American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAmerican Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesI have to admit to getting quite a bit of perverse joy in watching the GOP squirm their way through the Mark Sanford Affair, um, Affair. His first presser was a mesmerizing bit of chicanery, with him asserting that he was a "bottom line kind of guy" for about 8 minutes of the 18 before he got down to the bottom line and fessed up to boning an Argentinian babe.
Here's the thing about the Southern Baptists: They're consistent.
Let me offer this synopsis of the Prejean affair...in Valley Girl (cause ninth grade is as ninth grade does).
Perez Hilton: Um, like, whaddya think about the, like, whole gay marriage thing? Great swim suit!
Much in the same way the Bush Administration ignored intelligence reports that flatly proclaimed that Osama bin Laden was planning an eminent attack on US soil, the Right effectively silenced the Department of Homeland Security after they decided they didn't like the findings of their recent status report of right wing extremism.
The cascading systems failures in the mortgage, insurance, credit, automotive (stopping now...getting tired) industries has led us to a series of running postmortems to try to understand what went wrong--hopefully so we don't, well, do it again.
This morning I learned that Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years at hard labor by North Korean courts.
The cascading systems failures in the mortgage, insurance, credit, automotive (stopping now...getting tired) industries has led us to a series of running postmortems to try to understand what went wrong--hopefully so we don't, well, do it again.
Keith Olberman's coverage of the George Tiller murder was, again, stellar.
Scott Roeder (who is suspected of killing Doctor George Tiller), Eric Rudolph (who bombed gay bars, the Atlanta Olympics and killed an abortion provider) and a host of other "Christians" who murder women's health providers have something interesting in common: They are all white and they kill white abortion providers.
I listened, with absolute horror, to news reports that Doctor George Tiller, serving as an usher, was gunned down in church by an anti-abortion gunman. Predictable were the comments of hate-mongers like Bill O'Reilly, who though silent on war and the death penalty (which, Bill, kill people), offered some version of "reap the whirlwind" (the "he deserved it" defense).
To Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, G. Gordon Liddy, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Pat Buchanan et al:
Thank you from the bottom of my little black heart. Although your tripe is a little hard to listen to, it gives voice to 40 years of white, mostly-male angst at being flicked off the cat-bird seat. Boo hoo!
I'm going to make this brief (because this doesn't bear a whole lot of discussion): Marriage, as defined in the gay/straight marriage debate, is a religious matter. For straights, the civil nature of the union and the religious aspect have become "collapsed" such that when we say "marriage" we mean religion-sanctioned joining of straight persons.
While I find very little about white people plugging their ears, chanting "La-la-la" when a woman of color's credentials are being reviewed, I did find a little humor in this.
After leaders in the NJ and AZ state GOP moved to restrict Michael Steele from freely using GOP funds (which is, kind of, his--like...job), more cries are rising the Mr. Steele to shuffle off to Buffalo.
This blog is rated NC-17. Meaning, if you're not a grown-up or have sensitive or genteel tastes, this isn't the blog for you.
Oh, and to the Acme Dissertation people or whoever else you are, cut it out. You'll put up your posts and we'll just keep deleting them and blocking you.
And, since several of us are professors or teachers, flunking your customers.
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