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This is Obama's statement about his rescinding of the gag rule. I've bolded what, to me, is the important part. Never in my lifetime have I heard a president speak this rationally. I'm not especially optimistic that the American people can grow up, but it certainly bodes well to see a leader who is willing to make the attempt ( Read more... )

I haven't seen it in the news yet, but I have other secret sources which have told me this wonderful news: the gag rule has been repealed.

Everything in the past few days has been like a dream come true. Finally, fucking finally! the Bush administration's horrific policies are being dismantled. Eight hellish years come to an end.

At 9:46 a.m., another reporter walked into the press office.

“Good morning,” Mr. Burton said.

“I came to introduce myself,” the woman said. “I’m Helen Thomas.”

The nightmare is over at last.

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It's what I do when I want to write. It helps me block out all the other voices, lets me concentrate on my own voice. When I was in my early twenties, I took a course in Women's Literature; I audited the course, asked the professor if I could sit in on it. I was the only male in the class. It didn't feel strange to me being the only male, maybe ( Read more... )

I just wrote what follows as a response to someone in my last entry, but I think my words have wider relevance, so I'm posting them here as a separate entry. Let me preface it by saying this: when I started this journal something like eight or nine years ago, I had a wide variety of people reading it, including quite a few with who I disagree on a ( Read more... )

Best news ever. Long, long overdue, but better late than never. Congratulations, United States, welcome back to the world, and good luck with the enormous challenges posed by eight nightmarish years of damage caused by mismanagement, backwards-thinking, tunnel-vision, and fearmongering of the worst administration in history ( Read more... )

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