Increasingly irrelevant huckster Glenn Beck is outraged again. This time because students in a Texas Spanish class were forced to recite actual Spanish for an assignment about the Mexican War of Independence. Clearly, Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas wants the terrorists to win. Continue reading
Where do your rights come from? The courts? The United Nations? Your employer? The ‘people in charge’? Pfft, as if.
No one is going to hand you your rights on a silver platter then check back with you later and ask if everything is still okay. Not gonna happen boychuck. Continue reading
Yesterday, I witnessed one of the most iconic images of the protests I’ve seen so far, as the massive ABC news ticker in Times Square scrolled the headline “Occupy Wall Street Movement Goes Worldwide” while throngs of protesters moved beneath it, the giant billboards and screens above bombarding them with a constant stream of the very corporate consumerism that they had gathered against. As I took it all in, I heard a fellow protester proclaiming, “here she is, the Whore of Babylon, her legs spread wide for all the world to see.” Continue reading
Hey kids, you know how the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to cut funding for many procedures performed by Planned Parenthood?
Well, they topped themselves yesterday. Now they’ve passed H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, which prohibits women from using their own money to purchase private health insurance that would cover an abortion if it were medically necessary. The bill would also allow hospitals to refuse, on moral grounds, to treat a woman who was seeking an abortion, even in emergency or life-threatening situations.
Keep on voting for those Republican representatives, people, because they’re obviously doing your will, right? Continue reading
A New Jersey teacher, Viki Knox, was not happy her high school was celebrating October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History month.
So she complained about it, on her personal Facebook page. She wrote: homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation”, and that she was ‘pitching a fit’ about it. Continue reading
Henry Blodget put together a simple yet incredibly effective presentation over at Business Insider yesterday. The series of economic charts tell the story of how the rich have spent much of the past 25 years steadily taking ownership of nearly the entire U.S. economy. The 99% indeed.
Herman “Soul Pizza” Cain is a third-rate pizza chain executive who apparently once guest-hosted for one of right wing talk radio’s most popular human-anal cysts. So by the glue vapor logic of the current Republican Party, of course he should also be president of the United States.
But to quote my favorite old white man (Lee Corso): Not so fast, my friends. Continue reading
If you happen to be an individual in possession of two X chromosomes, a functioning e-mail account, and at least a few female relatives, friends, acquaintances, or co-workers, odds are that at some point in the last ten years you have a received a forwarded missive something similar to one I have simulated for you, below.
“Subject Line: Forward this to 10 Awesome, Amazing Women in Your Life Right Now!!!! Continue reading
Debate log #2349-When we last saw our intrepid (or is it incompetent?) candidates, they were poking out each others’ eyes with their words. Rick Perry was sleepy. Mitt Romney was for something, then against it, then undecided, then for it. Herman Cain was in the single digits, and Jon Huntsman was recycling his ties. Michelle Bachmann was dumb. At least that one hasn’t changed. Continue reading
It seems Mitt Romney is suffering from a case of what I call ‘Not Christian Enough’. At the recent Values Voters Summit, Baptist minister Robert Jeffress took a swipe at Mr. Mittens calling him:
“a good, moral person, but someone who is part of a cult” [Bloomberg.com]