Farewell Edwards

Your run for President had its moments of frustration and triumph, and ultimately, some despair.
You’ve dropped out, and left the race without a fully liberal candidate anywhere near the top.  Its no wonder Nader is making noises again.
Newsweek has already hit the floor with an awkward and sweaty eulogy.  They use the word “crazy” about [...]

Hope: Mix Your Own Obama Poster

I’m sure you folks have seen this poster of Obama floating around:

Well, I decided it would be fun to remix it. Here’s the base:

First I decided to try a different word. Change came to mind (but that’s covered by Progress), so I settled on hope:

Next I decided I rather liked [...]

Support Mentally Ill Troops

We need to be united in our rage and speak with one thunderous voice on this (Kay at White Noise Insanity, emphasis mine):
Here’s the rundown:

Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside served 7 years honorably in the Army and then volunteered to go to Iraq
She was tormented by one Officer while in Iraq
She tried to commit suicide [...]

McCain Wins Giuliani’s Mantle

Will he absorb any of his policies?
John McCain won yet another primary, placing him in a solid lead and granting the Republicans something they’ve lacked this entire campaign.  A front runner.  Mitt Romney has been, effectively, blasted as inauthentic.  He’s done the best in a state where his father built a reputation, and one with [...]

Clintons Guarding Obama?

A friend posed an interesting question yesterday.  What if the Clintons were running to absorb the shock of an Obama candidacy?  They run strong initially, then taper off on purpose.  All the initial flack heads their way, but enough passes by Barack to offer his camp a chance to prepare for the full onslaught.  Additionally, [...]

Why Report Florida Dem Primary?

I saw this in an AP article about the Florida Primary:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was the Democratic winner in a primary held in defiance of national rules that drew no campaigning and awarded no delegates
The other candidates have not been campaigning in these states.  Only Clinton has.  In at least one case, Clinton was the [...]

Gay Hating and Practicality

Get on over to atheocracy and read this:
This is how Christians attempt to insulate themselves from attacks on this issue. They say, “We don’t hate the people who are gay; we just, ya know, hate their gayness.” Of course, whether or not I even used the word “hate” in my post is irrelevant (I didn’t, [...]

Apparently Theists Can’t Argue

In a piece short on logic but long on bias, Simple Light attempts to present the killer arguments that support intelligent design.  The stage is set by presenting Christopher Hitchens as disoganized and cynical, and Jay Richards as rational and full of hope.  The painful illusion being cast over the debate becomes painfully clear early [...]

Israel, Palestine: The Illegitmacy of Violence

What do you think of, when you think of Israel?  Jerusalem?
Its a heavy question, for a Jew.  I think of many things, visions and words from my youth.  And a rich history that feels nearer than that of any other people on Earth.   I say this as a man who identifies as ethnically Jewish.  [...]

McCain the Warlord

With all the talk of the “independent vote” McCain is snapping up, it’ll be easy to get swept up in the media glow and view the man as a sane, reason-governed paragon of virtue. As a compromise candidate for a Republican field racked by distasteful failures and disunity.
John’s stance on war is not sane. [...]

Clinton: Real Time Information

Its a start.  Hillary wants to put bloggers in government agencies, and increase the flow of information.  I don’t know that bloggers are the best way to go about doing this (Faster turn around on Freedom of Information Act requests, stronger protections for whistle-blowers, and a well organized effort to declassify digitalize safe information assets [...]

Fight Telecom Immunity

Leading the anti-corporate accountability forces, Generalissimo Bush is hoping to shut down our chance for redress against the telecoms.  The government spied on us, and now its trying to get the corporations who broke the law to help them do so off the hook.
We cannot stand for this.
Democracy for America has a provocative ad calling [...]

Olberman at Daily Kos: So Fucking What?

My neurons violently exploded when I read this:
Some in the blogosphere have raised questions about Olbermann’s role at the site, which describes itself as “a Democratic blog, a partisan blog.” Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters writes, “Consider again the media firestorm that would come from (Brit) Hume or (Chris) Wallace doing the same thing at a [...]

Romanticizing The Womanizer

Do we tend to romanticize the image of the man who lied to women on a large scale?  Yes (emphasis mine):
In a cluster of lawsuits gathered up by The Associated Press, the former chief financial officer of health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. is depicted as a corporate Casanova _ a world-class, love-’em-and-leave-’em sort of guy [...]

Obama’s Decisive Victory in SC

Obama won.  By a lot.