Ayn Rand’s philosophy of radical selfishness and disdain for the poor and struggling is antithetical to our faith values of justice, compassion and the common good. To remind you of these faith values we share, we are giving you these Bibles -- the sacred text of your own faith tradition. Next time you are seeking political inspiration, we hope you ( Read more... )

Getting the Most Out of WisCon Fri, 9:00-10:15 pm Conference 4 ( Read more... )

The reactionary gang at the Heritage Foundation is whining to their fan base, revealing the horrifying news that "the Left is fighting back"!But the Left is fighting back. To win, we must redouble our efforts at this moment of opportunity. Please help The Heritage Foundation meet its $150,000 $250,000 $300,000 goal by midnight, April 15.
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150 years ago, the Slaveholders' Rebellion saw the first shots fired; fittingly, by the traitors/rebels/seceshes/whatever you want to call them: the troops led and duped by the slaveholder aristocracy ( Read more... )

Ken Macleod on rec.arts.sf.fandom, eight hours after the Columbia blew up:
"Husband, McCool, Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, Ramon.
Komarov, Grissom, White, Chaffee, Dobrovolsky, Volkov, Patsayev,
Resnick, Scobee, Smith, McNair, McAuliffe, Jarvis, Onizuka.

These names will be written under other skies."

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I've been marching around Capitol Square for a while now, so I'm taking a break.

I rode in with the Laborers this morning (parkingprincess is working my shift at the bookstore so I can be here), and have an orange shirt to prove it. The mustering was a slice of life: the harried white mom with her two mixed-race kids, the big guy with the swish voice and the ( Read more... )

I believe our corporate lords and masters have hit on what they consider an optimal solution for the industrialized world (U.S./Europe), which can gradually be expanded to the rest of the planet, once accommodations are reached with their counterparts in Russia and China ( Read more... )

Please keep your plans to attend Saturday’s huge rally at the Capitol. The rally is still going forward. The fight is not over. We may have lost a battle, but we are still fighting the war. Saturday’s rally needs to be the largest yet, by far. We still have something to prove to those citizens of our state and our nation who can’t be here with ( Read more... )

The mask is off; the Repugnicans are no longer bothering to pretend that it was ever a budget issue. Now we must take to the courts and to the streets, as long as it takes to regain our rights.