From Democracy Now! "I happened to catch on CNN an interview with a man who had been released from death row in Illinois based on DNA evidence, and he told a CNN reporter that he believes that Tookie Williams should be executed, because there was no actual innocence, there was no factual evidence of his innocence ( Read more... )

So Schwarzenegger has denied Stanley Willaims's petiton for clemency. I am so mad. The sick thing is, it's such a political move. I doubt the govenor really looked at whether Tookie deserved to live. He just looked at his political situation. Hmmmmmmm, he looks pretty much like an idiot right now with the ballot initiatives failing and all. ( Read more... )

I finally got around to reading John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. It's a fantastic book. After all of the media, Michael Moore movies and statements, and arguments from both sides of the political spectrum about what exactly the connection between the Bushes, the Saudis, and 9/11 was, Perkins gives the inside story. But the ( Read more... )

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Well, it looks like the shit will soon be hitting many fans--literally--all over New Orleans if this thing hits... I'm going to bed, and by the time I get up... I just don't want to know how bad this is going to be. Don't fuck with Mother Nature, people!

I'm such a good girl, I've educated myself! I read Erik Saar's Inside the Wire (good book, by the way), and then actually read the appendix with the famous memorandum for Bush in which Gonzales supposedly called the Geneva Gonventions "quaint." In actually reading the thing, I found that the "quaint" sentence was probably one of the least ( Read more... )

Here is my short list of books that everyone in this country (and maybe the world) should read:

The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures Anne Fadiman
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich
And the band played on : politics, people, and the ( Read more... )

The pro-lifers that think banning/restricting contraception is the way to get what they want are idiots. You can prevent the unwanted pregnancies, or you can allow them to happen. Which will lead to more abortions? Hmmmmmmm You know, if you are a religious zealot who is totally against birth control, I get that. But most of these people aren't ( Read more... )

So velonews reports Lance Armstrong said he might run for Texas governor in 2006. I hope he was joking like he was last time. The guy is an inspiration to so many people, such a special person who has done so much and given so much hope... if he got in to politics, well, it would suck ( Read more... )

So I recently finished And the Band Played On. It's definitely going on my list of books that everyone should read (along with The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Nickel and DimedWhat the book brought home for me is, once again, the idea that so many people seem to have difficulty with: the idea that we are all equal as people, that one ( Read more... )