American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAmerican Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesA religion scholar with the Martin Marty Institute at the University of Chicago recently mused about a new website, Youvebeenleftbehind.com. Evidently, for forty dollars a year, "those who are relatively assured of their own salvation can leave a final e-mail to less fortunate loved ones who might be left behind during the rapture.
So a few days ago, in his answer to a question about bilingual education, Obama said that American children need to learn a foreign language--that in the rapidly globalizing world we inhabit, language skills are increasingly important. As a post on DailyKos notes,
From a friend's email comes this not-really-a-shocker from Wonkette:
Steve Sanders has a well-reasoned article up at Findlaw, pointing out the absurdity of America's patchwork recognition of same-sex marriages.....
Over at Balkinization, Jack Balkin muses over the larger meaning of the passage of the new FISA legislation.
Sometimes, those emails just BEG to be shared...
The GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY is now in the planning stages, the Library will include:
01. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has yet been able to find.
02. The Hurricane Katrina Room , which is still under construction.
03. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.
Evidently, some women who supported Hillary are still determined to "show" all the "misogynists" who voted for Obama, by voting for John McCain--whose voting history mades Bobby Riggs (remember him? the asshole Billie Jean King beat in that famous tennis match)look like a feminist.
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession ... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks.
Over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton highlights some research about the effects of that tax rebate that was supposed to perk up the economy. Turns out it DID perk up something...
Let me just tempt you with the first paragraph of "The Ten most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency"
Over at Dangerous Intersection, Erich Vieth has a long post on flag pins. Here's a clip:
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