So many people say they like all kinds of music... except rap and country ( Read more... )

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change

When I woke up, I realized that my dream about Obama accepting Clinton's offer to withdraw if he accepted her as his running mate was just a dream. Still, I had to check, so I quickly did so. Nope, that didn't happen.

But I did wake up to this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

I used to say I didn't think Six Apart would do it. I didn't think they'd strip away the option to be on this site for free without seeing ads. I was right. They didn't.

In response to the recent announcement that SUP, a Moscow-based company, bought LJ from Six Apart, zzyzx writes ( Read more... )

(In response to her request to investigate the veracity of the authorship of an essay she received via email, and provide my own opinion on the issues covered by it ( Read more... )

I just watched a very surreal CNN report about the growing importance of the white male voting block.

Clinton campaign airs controversial "scary" TV ad:

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Obama campaign responds by swiftly making and airing a knock-off of the ad:

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Reporter asks whether Clinton should drop out of the presidential race after March 4, to which Obama advisor (and former Secretary of the Navy) Richard Danzig responds ( Read more... )

Homosexuality: The Threat to the Family and the Attack on Marriage

From the website of the Family Research Council.

Peter Sprigg delivered these remarks on March 29, 2004, at the World Congress of Families III in Mexico City, Mexico.

[excerpt -- see link for full context]

...in order to defend what we are for--the family--we often must define ( Read more... )

Playing Games With Kosovo - General Wesley Clark is no longer running for President, but I still keep on his email lists. This is an interesting editorial in which he discusses how Kosovo's declaration of independence is perceived by Russia in the context of their relationship with NATO.

I don't worry too much about the details of a candidate's platform, except where it teaches me about that candidate and their ideas. If they give a 10 point plan, I expect them to break it ( Read more... )