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Sufferin' 'til Suffrage

I dare you not to smile at this School House Rock classic:
Cornell West Lays Down Some Truth

This man is my new guru. Because he cuts through the bullshit and gets right down to the basic building block of human society--empathy and compassion. And he does it in that particular Southern preacher sort of way that…
Yo Mamma Makes It to the Senate

Awesome. Igor Volsky reports today that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) has been pushing an amendment to "prohibit the government from defining which benefits should be included in a standard benefit package." Se…
Back Soon, But First This

After a month of adjusting to a rather large life change and living situation, I'm feeling more stable and ready to get back to the blogging life. But not right now. Right now, I'm just trying to wrap my head around this…
Kick Ass! (In a good way)

OMG, I just heard a white, male senator actually say on national television that white, male judges have every bit as much of a life lens as anyone else, and that Republican attacks on Sonia Sotomayor as a Latina woman a…
Good Point: The State Protects Natural Rights, Not the Church

Good Point Alert: Over at Salon today, Michael Lind has a very well-written and informative overview of why it is necessary to keep the functions of church and state separate in a true democracy. The paragraph that made …
Teabagging Is Not An Idiom

My friend is an SAT tutor for ESL students. My favorite story involves a sixteen year old boy asking her, in a class full of other teenagers, if "teabagging" and "that's what she said" are idioms (they are not). This i…
Wait...Liddy is Still Alive?!?! Well, Color Me Surprised.

Seriously? Seriously? Somehow the fact that G. Gordon Liddy--yes that G. Gordon Liddy--has a radio program slipped past my radar. Believe me, this is news to a woman who has read her dad's old copy of All the President's…
Empathy, 1. Asshats, 0.

Jesse Taylor has a particular knack for rephrasing certain concepts in terms that surely even the most asshatish of asshats can understand. He has this to say about the tired "Affirmative Action is unfair and unsafe" mem…
Men Have Sex/Gender/Race, Too--Why Don't We Label Them "Biased?"

Political and SCOTUS junkie that I am, NPR has been on pretty much nonstop around here for the past 24 hours. In addition to the ridiculous race-baiting by Conservative assholes like Mike "I thought they were all named M…