What the hell, two quickie posts in one day. Slacktivist’s post from this morning is brilliant in its insight about the Tea Party movement. Seriously, bang on. Damn, I wish I could atriculate thoughts that well. update 12/15: I would also highly recommend reading through the multitude of comments below the linked post; lots to […]

All kinds of people, myself included, get hung up on the big, sexy political issues; health care, the economy, gay marriage, abortion, the wars. These issues get a lot of attention because they’re important, but there are a lot of other issues out there that are just as important, but don’t get a lot of […]

My head and creative muscles are in a somewhat different, distant place right now, between a new project phase at work, my electing to jump headlong into NaNoWriMo, and a few other things not worth mentioning. That said, posts here might be thin on the ground here for a while*. It’s not that I don’t […]

Really. Yeah, I know most of you who aren’t in Virginia or New Jersey don’t have anything on the ballot of national or even statewide interest, but honestly, mayor, city councilman, alderman, county treasurer, and dog catcher are important jobs too; in fact, they probably have a greater effect on your daily life than the […]

Maybe we will get something resembling a public option after all; even if there’s a “states can opt out” provision. That kind of pisses me off (given who’s likely to be running my state come January unless the polls shift dramatically in the next week), but honestly, if the eventual health care reforms actually work, […]

Democratic Candidate for VA Governor Creigh Deeds says he’d consider opting Virginia out of any Federal health care solution including a public option. Now, I’m going to vote for the guy, because, hey, the alternative says that working women and feminists (not to mention cohabitators, “fornicators”, homosexuals and contraception) are a blight on society – […]

That, apparently was the one-word response of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs this morning. In his first term in his first year in office, President Obama has been awarded The Nobel Peace Prize. I’m clearly not the only one who’s kind of surprised by this; the President himself, by the look of him on the television […]

Yeah, I know, Banned Books Week was last week, but consider it read that I’m just running a little late. That, and I didn’t have anything particularly interesting to post about it until today, when I found this, a letter from a librarian to a library patron who challenged the inclusion of a book called […]

Scalzi dropped an interesting statement last night, asking if it makes sense to anyone else: As I get older, I worry less about “life being fair” and worry rather more about justice. For my part, I think it does, though to talk about it, one needs to define, exactly, "fairness" and "justice" mean (which is […]

The President is clearly a Jedi master of this element of the Dad-ric arts. Witness Mr. Obama at yesterday’s event promoting Chicago’s quest to host the 2016 Olympic Games: This only really works if he was making hmmmm…zzzshhssszzzz…..hmmmm…zacht! noises, which, come on, you know he was doing (and quite possibly, quoting Darth Vader as well). […]