Re: Terminal Housekeeping
I don't want to be the guy who piggybacks off of such a phenomenal piece of writing, but exmearden's powerful personal FP diary reminded me to do something I've meant to do for some time: ask you to...
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A Salute to the 'General'
Back in May of 2004, I had just returned to Atlanta after my semester ended to start working for the longest of longshot bids: a liberal, African-American, anti-death penalty, pro-AWB, pro-choice...
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Inauguration: One Year Ago Today (photo diary)
My wife had to work, so I took the train into the city alone, riding next to a poster that MoveOn had placed on the wall. It had a simple message: I Stand With Obama.The cold was the second thing I...
View ArticleNY Sun impressed by Palin, blue cars
Mr. Burns: And a stunt like that impresses people? Homer: Oh yeah, and I'm not easily impressed. Wow! A blue car!-The Simpsons, "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"* Normally, when a Republican shows up at a...
View ArticleDC ALL CLEAR
UPDATE 10:07 - Looks like we have our answer, courtesy of the WaPo traffic reporter's blog: dcfiremes just tweeted this: "update - PO @N Cap & Mass - DC F&EMS Haz Mat has determined scene is...
View ArticleBigots Cancel Prom rather than let Lesbian attend (BIG UPDATE!)
In 1962, the city of Jackson, Mississippi realized that it would have to desegregate its five public swimming pools. Rather than face the prospect of having to share a swimming pool with blacks, the...
View ArticleAn INCLUSIVE Prom for Constance: Contribute Here!
You guys are amazing: the reaction to yesterday's post about the bigots of the Itawamba County School Board and their craven decision to cancel prom for Itawamba Agricultural High School, rather than...
View ArticleSegregation in America: from the Air Force to the Prom
For the most part, I was overwhelmingly grateful for the outrage and offers of assistance that arose from my diary a few days ago about the decision of the Itawamba County, Mississippi school board's...
View ArticleHow "Rock Lobster" Saved a Gay Student's Prom (w/a special video update!)
While the Connie McMillen prom saga continues in Mississippi (and please, if you haven't taken action yet, contribute to help the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition throw an inclusive prom for Itawamba...
View ArticlePolitico's abject journalistic failure (Volume 8,374)
I don't often read Politico. It's free in paper form around the city, and I'm online almost all day, every day, but I have no use for a site that is essentially just another distribution system for...
View ArticleA favor, dear right-wing media elites: (UPDATE)
In August of 2008, an assassin murdered Bill Gwatney, the chair of the Arkansas Democratic Party, in cold blood while standing in party headquarters in Little Rock.Last year, amid the town hall...
View Article"Teabaggers" or "Tea Partiers?" A misguided attempt to define the difference.
There has been no shortage of indignation over the use of the term "teabaggers" to describe the right-wing anti-government hordes that have become such a prominent part of our national politics. The...
View ArticleWillingham: Timeline of a Cover-Up (ACTION ALERT)
Tomorrow, Texas plans to execute Hank Skinner, a death-row inmate who has been begging for the right to have tested the DNA evidence found at the scene of the crime for which he was convicted....
View ArticleThe 19 billion pound elephant in the room on drilling
I was as taken aback as everyone else by President Obama's announcement that he was preemptively caving on a major Republican demand in climate negotiations and expanding offshore drilling.Until about...
View ArticlePam Karlan for SCOTUS: worth going to the mattresses over
Obama picks some good nominees. "BFD" Biden; Hillary Clinton; Sonia Sotomayor; Eric Shinseki and Tammy Duckworth at VA; Eric Holder as AG; Neal Katyal as Deputy SG; you've probably never heard of Lisa...
View ArticleMooting Kagan - or: "She'll be the judge of that!"
Every now and again, while on vacation, I come up with some half-baked, harebrained idea that--having nothing better to do with my day--I decide to post here. Sometimes they're hits, sometimes not....
View ArticleYou want progress? You want change? Here's step one:
We all have things we want to see accomplished during President Obama's administration. An Apollo plan for clean energy. Truly universal health care. Workplace protections for GLBT Americans....
View ArticleWhen Quarterbacks Become Cheerleaders, It Ain't Pretty
Ladies and Gentlemen, Karl Rove:
View ArticleThe Power to Assassinate a Citizen
By now we've all heard that Department of Justice attorneys are asserting the constitutionally dubious "state secrets" doctrine in attempting to quash a lawsuit filed by the father of a citizen who is...
View Article"Epic Hack" takes down DC online voting program
A few years ago, the District of Columbia adopted one of the most voter-empowering elections codes in the country.Among the legal processes the new law established was a requirement that all ballots be...
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