the new orleans times-picayune's open letter to the president
posted 09/04/2005
Wow, if you haven't read this open letter from the local New Orleans paper yet, it's a clear commentary from the people on the ground.
read it here
read it here
i want to change my name
posted 08/02/2005
I got an email today from someone who has the last name Supprise.
Gosh, I wish my name was Susan Supprise! I could always run into rooms and yell, "Supprise!" Then there would be an awkward moment where I have to explain my private little joke to others. There would be surreptitious eye rolling from the people in the room and polite smiles. Then I would walk away, still secure in the comfort that my name is Susan Supprise.
Gosh, I wish my name was Susan Supprise! I could always run into rooms and yell, "Supprise!" Then there would be an awkward moment where I have to explain my private little joke to others. There would be surreptitious eye rolling from the people in the room and polite smiles. Then I would walk away, still secure in the comfort that my name is Susan Supprise.
conservitives post their most hated books
posted 06/02/2005
First of all, everyone should stop banning or listing books for the purppose of maligning them. It's just dumb.
A conservative magazine has put up their list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The first three are predictable. They are going after Communists and Hitler. Other books on the list I would, of course, never agree with maligning, but I was not surprised -- Darwin, Kinsey, Nietzsche. Those don't surprise me since those are writers who wrote about subjects that conservative Christians are always ranting about. However others on the list and in the Honorable Mentions section are puzzling.
Democracy and Education by John Dewey?
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan?
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
Can we get conservatives groups like this some better hobbies? Or some pills?
A conservative magazine has put up their list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The first three are predictable. They are going after Communists and Hitler. Other books on the list I would, of course, never agree with maligning, but I was not surprised -- Darwin, Kinsey, Nietzsche. Those don't surprise me since those are writers who wrote about subjects that conservative Christians are always ranting about. However others on the list and in the Honorable Mentions section are puzzling.
Democracy and Education by John Dewey?
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan?
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
Can we get conservatives groups like this some better hobbies? Or some pills?
downing street memo
posted 05/25/2005
Wow. I know it's old news to lots of people who read online a lot, but I have to post a link to the Downing Street Memo. It's amazing that our national media is ignoring this.
republicans showing their good sides
posted 05/16/2005
In a short political blog post on Salon.com some of the many recent swarthy stories of judgmental right-wing activists and politicians were highlighted.
Here's the link to the story.
(If you don't subscribe to Salon, you can do the free site pass where you look at an ad to read complete articles)
A great quote from the end of the piece, after talking about Republicans and abortion activists admitting to hideous pasts, was this ...
Hey, wouldn't it be funny if they threw an election and one party won because of its firm commitment to moral values, a faith-based worldview and a stand against such repugnant deviancy as gay marriage? And wouldn't it be even more hysterical if some of that party's loudest advocates of moral values had in fact been boinking mules and watermelons, and treating their wives like prostitutes?
Here's the link to the story.
(If you don't subscribe to Salon, you can do the free site pass where you look at an ad to read complete articles)
A great quote from the end of the piece, after talking about Republicans and abortion activists admitting to hideous pasts, was this ...
Hey, wouldn't it be funny if they threw an election and one party won because of its firm commitment to moral values, a faith-based worldview and a stand against such repugnant deviancy as gay marriage? And wouldn't it be even more hysterical if some of that party's loudest advocates of moral values had in fact been boinking mules and watermelons, and treating their wives like prostitutes?
