I find it ironic that one of the most religious states in the union has a city considered to be the country’s most dangerous city. Ironic and sad, because many of our problems in this city are curable if we focused on these instead of denying gay rights and turning the clock back with both our […]
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Perspective
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think at times this medium skews attention to that which furthers acrimonious debate than anything truly useful or important. While we focus on how far we can take the Foley thing (including David Brooks equating Foley’s actions with a character from a play), gun shots are heard along the Korean […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Don at Hands in Dirt has a lovely and very personal remembrance of Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, who passed away on Wednesday. I don’t think there’s a feminist who doesn’t remember one of Richards most famous quotes, from the 1988 Democratic Convention: Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She […]
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Two from Sheila
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two excellent posts from Sheila to pass on: The latest covers the Lieberman defeat and the ludicrous accusations that the Joe Lieberman site was hacked. As was discovered and discussed in numerous publications, the Lieberman campaign hosted the site on a cheap server, and then paid the price when it received too […]
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Freedom without responsibility
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read an opinion piece yesterday that reflects much of what I feel about the publication of the cartoons depicting Muhammad. In the piece, Simon Jenkins wrote: A newspaper is not a monastery, its mind blind to the world and deaf to reaction. Every inch of published print reflects the views of […]