Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Everyone is celebrating & rightly so. I just want to point out one of the downsides (though there were more than one). Hate amendments flourished yesterday, with Arizona the possible exception. Tennessee (80-20!), South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Colorado, Idaho… my goodness. Or badness, in this case. And Tennessee the hatefulest [...]

South Dakotans are set to reject continued scapegoating. I don’t know how goes the campaign in Tennessee.

Yesterday, I listened to a very interesting interview between Terry Gross & Julia Sweeny, SNL’s “Pat”. Her experience with religion is a lot more interesting than my own, though there are parallels. I was impressed with her clarity, amused by her wit, familiar with her anger, and moved by her ability to go [...]

I agree with kos - wholeheartedly.
I’ll vote for Ford, because Corker is anti-gay & anti-family, too plus a lot of other bad things that Ford isn’t. But I want to be on record that this is a vote against Corker, and not for Ford and his sense of entitlement.

I just watched one of Olbermann’s better rants. It’s a good one because most of it (apart from his comparison between the Administration and terrorism - little that the current administration is doing is terrorist by the standard definition; a better comparison would be between Bush and Putin or the House of Saud - [...]

Because religion gets all the breaks.
That is, at least until the bad religions manage to declassify us, even we non-believers can get on the bandwagon. And we might as well. If you are into schadenfreude, it’s nice to know that when the religious right lobbies on behalf of state sponsored religion, they [...]

Not on the top of the ticket anyway. Link.
I don’t know Rice’s politics. I do know that she is a Bush toady, and a war glutton. So, I couldn’t support her if she did run. But, wouldn’t it be nice to show our country is grown up enough to elect a non-white [...]

… or not.
Apparently, my work place is a particularly fertile ground for e-mail forwards, especially the political and religious, and often of a rather mean-spirited nature. One that hits my inbox fairly regularly is the story of the eight-year old Iranian boy whose punishment for stealing bread is to have his arm crushed by [...]

Harvesting stem cells without harming the embryo may be a technique that circumvents the so-called ethical problems with using discarded IVF embryos to enhance life-saving research.
Now, we can unfreeze the embryos, get the stem cells, re-freeze them, and then throw them in the incinerator.
The sentence you just read is full of snark. Don’t take [...]

This is a sampling of the sixty books George W. Bush has read this year. (He’s ten ahead of Karl Rove in an informal contest.)
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero by David Maraniss
Lincoln: A Life of [...]