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Blaming the blacks for Proposition 8
Writer Ernest Hardy takes down Dan Savage and exposes the lie behind blaming African-Americans for the success of Proposition 8 here. It’s a very long post but deserves reading. He provides a summary of his analysis via another blogger: 1) This [70%] number comes from *one* exit poll of 224 black voters. 2) Of the […]
The good ole days
Ah, the good ole days — the Reagan years. I ran into this Fishbone video on Crooks and Liars. It will make you nostalgic for the original Ground Zero, when the US was doin’ the mayhem and, 40 years later, we were still thumping our chests with the Gipper.
It’s, like, you don’t have to read the whole boring story
I’ve been checking in with the Daily Beast, the new Salon/HuffPo/TPM-type website from Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Brown, who has refined the art of self-promotion to the degree that she’s become completely oblivious to her own obnoxiousness, is a buddy of John McCain. The new site’s political writing […]
Don’t touch me!
I won’t be surprised if some “good explanation” for this turns up, but it remains a perfect expression of the world’s regard for our lame-duck president.
The gays go all ACT-UP
Last Saturday was the “National Day of Protest.” Gay men and women all over America demonstrated against California’s adoption of Proposition 8, which makes gay marriage in that state illegal again. I’m not going to discuss the idiocy of permitting majorities to restrict the rights of minorities through referenda. It may take a while, but […]
Psychiatry: still crazy after all these years
I’ve been a longtime critic of mainstream psychotherapy. You can read several articles I’ve written on the subject on my original site, Soulworks.net (click on the “writings” button). Today I received an email from Christopher Lane, an English professor and author of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, alerting me to his column in […]
Mainstream media duped again
Today’s New York Times features a story about a widely quoted McCain surrogate. Problem is, he doesn’t exist. It’s yet another example of the way journalism has abandoned the usual source checks in order to keep up with the 24-hour news cycle. The hoaxer has a website and the reporters and pundits who made use […]
You yawn, you go to jail
Yawning at a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin gets an Israeli soldier 21 days in jail. If you fall asleep at a funeral in Israel, I guess you never wake up. True story!