Gilly MADE ME do it. That's right. Forced. Twisted my arm ( Read more... )

Here is a partial transcript of the interview with Reverend James Cone's, the founder of Black Liberation Theology on Fresh Air. The press has been cherry picking what we understand of Black Liberation Theology. These ministers come directly from the social activist tradition of Martin Luther King. According to them religion, equality and social ( Read more... )

How do you stop reading the internetz? Better yet, how do you stop reading someone else's journal? I have a big and undying curiosity. If someone publishes a journal and I am at all curious about them, I must read it. It's like in 1985 when my Aunt Marge caught me looking at Playboy. You know, the one where Madonna was all nude and super hairy. I ( Read more... )

Words to be nixed from the human vocabulary ( Read more... )

i had a good time with merilee and liza this weekend and there were lots of great photos, but these are my favorite two:


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I was thinking about attending this. Anybody else interested in attending? It's tomorrow during the day. (Grrrump grump grump) But it looks like it might be lively. And I do love a lively debate ( Read more... )

Here is the full quotation of Obama's Pennsylvania remark in its full context. How can you say this guy is elitist? I think he gets it. I think he cuts right through the crap and sees things as they are.

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You know what this journal is missing? More photos of the kittypants, who is now known as "fatty lumpkins."


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I was listening to this really excellent Christiane Amanpour interview and she was talking about the difficulty of getting funded for quality journalism. In response to the problem she recited this Ruskin quote, which I love:There is hardly anything in this world but that somebody or other could not make a little worse and sell it a little cheaper ( Read more... )

Here, I think, is the question I have been trying to put into words for awhile now: If Hillary Clinton is not the first female president of our dreams, then who is? Does this person even exist? Like the fabled madonna/whore, I think the first female president would have to be able to hold impossible extremes ( Read more... )