Category Archives: Current Affairs
A Moment of Sanity on FOX News
Shep Smith, displaying deep humanity and good sense, calls out his own viewers: Might have been nice to then admit that FOX News courted those viewers and that's why they are there. And also might have been nice to say … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day – June 11, 2009
William Jelani Cobb compares Obama's incrementalism on gay rights to that of Kennedy with civil rights in the 60s, and warns: The president would do well to define this moment by taking immediate action to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" … Continue reading
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On The Holocaust Museum Shooting
I'm still wrapping my head around everything that is going on in our country and the way it is covered in the media. A white supremacist man murders a Black man in a national museum and again the chattering class has … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day – June 10, 2009
E.D. Kain over at my new favorite blog, The League of Ordinary Gentleman, drops rational on the health care reform debate: I suppose, beyond all this, medicine – like education, or crime – seems to be an area wherein profits … Continue reading
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Howard Stern Goes Hard for The Gays
This is old, but peep the shock jock king on gay rights: This is really dope. Mad props to Stern for being eminently reasonable.
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