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Joan Walsh: No plans to marry Dick Armey - War Room - Salon.com
Friday, January 23, 2009
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Informed Comment: Palestinian Girl, Israeli Troops
Monday, January 05, 2009
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Contempt « THE TOOT
Monday, November 17, 2008
Rants: Consider This...The Stupidest Exercise Machine You'll Ever See | Burbia.com
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Gore-a, ahora | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
Get Your War On: New World Order - 236.com - Video
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
My Damn Channel » W. Kramer / D. Was
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
233 odd years ago, a bunch of landed white male gentry came together to create a document of such exceptional depth and flexibility that it continues to be the glue that holds one of earth's greatest societies together. that declaration, and the bill of rights that accompanied it, were so perfectly balanced as to allow for the creation of a non-monarchical country that has managed to last with little internal strife for all those years.
but. and it's a pretty big but.
at the same time, there was a flaw. the document was solipsistic. it was created by people who could only conceive of themselves as having grievances of merit. the grievances may have been universal, and were claimed as such, but most of the universe was defined as not having a vested interest in those very universal rights. if you were black, you had 3/5 of a grievance. if you were a woman, no grievance worth discussing at all. and while the poor landless folk were not going to be sent to debtor's prison, they nonetheless were not part of the universe these men considered as relevant. to read hamilton and madison and jefferson with this ex post facto knowledge can give one a bit of a headache. why didn't they get it? they were shutting the vast majority of the country out of their "universal" claims.
well, they created a mechanism, a series of mechanisms in fact, that allowed for that universe to expand, to become ever more embracing of the rest of those who would call themselves americans. first, more white men were embraced. then, with a little imbroglio black men managed to get a piece of the pie. and then we figured out how to make "the fairer sex" part of the franchise. i certain don't mean to belittle the brave men and women who fought and fought and fought and often died to make these things happen--they managed to do so in the context of that same document, and the idea of america survived. we again went back to the well to gives african americans the true franchise, and absorbed one wave of immigrants after another. and still we survived, and prospered. maybe even BECAUSE of these things we prospered.
we are near the end of the road. the franchise has been extended to almost everyone in our country. we have a few more details to iron out before we finally become the best version of what we always should have been--the country of inclusion, the country that draws strength from our difference as long as we all accept those things that those men wrote 233 years ago that bind us together. we are here. the time is now. our gay brothers and sisters need us to extend that franchise, to embrace them with both arms, and they need us to do so today and tomorrow and every day until november 5th, when that embrace can turn into the most joyful hug imaginable.
my sister is gay, and she has no interest in getting married, despite being in a long term relationship with a wonderful woman, and despite living in massachusetts where she to marry is her right. that is her choice, and she can make it freely. what could possibly be more beautiful than that? let's give our gay friends, gay colleagues, gay relatives and fuck it, while we're up, our gay enemies that exact same right: the right to say "I do", or, for that matter, "I don't" just like those of us who are straight get to do. let's extend that franchise until we can't extend it anymore, and then let's go about making the idea of america as perfect as we possibly can. all of those americans who are gay are just as american as those who aren't, and they cannot and must not face the kind of discrimination that has been their lot for far too long. i look forward to those hugs on november 5th--i think i will head down to santa monica blvd. and san vicente and throw a few around myself.
this post is for laura, my sister, who i love most dearly.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
YouTube - YES on Proposition 8 (Prop 8) for our kids
Monday, October 27, 2008
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Monday, October 20, 2008
mccain rally where mccain supporters chase off anti-muslim racists
Friday, October 17, 2008
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Hayden Panettiere PSA: Vote For McCain (VIDEO)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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McCain and ACORN partying together
Thursday, October 09, 2008
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Monday, October 06, 2008
David Rees: What Would D. Boon Do?
zlatan!!!
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Some Primers on CDS
Sunday, October 05, 2008
YouTube - Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis
Monday, September 29, 2008
Barney Frank is the cat: the republicans are the mouse
Sunday, September 28, 2008
the only funny thing about this clip are sarah palin's actual words
b) because sarah palin and unintentional (yet mordant, let's remember the job she's up for) hilarity go hand in hand.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
McCain and the Keating 5--a refesher course
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
1. jill owns the images of mccain. the atlantic had a (very) short embargo, and only for the purposes of selling said images.
2. jill's photo is on the cover of the atlantic magazine. i know this. i'm looking at it. she was asked to do a shot. she delivered on time and on budget. as always.
3. amy frickin' dresser IS NOT JILL'S PHOTOSHOP PERSON!!!!!!!!! she worked for jill YEARS ago, and learned her style from jill. ferfuxsake. the next person who guesses that amy is the "real talent" gets a slapping with some kind of wet noodle.
4. john mccain is a very powerful man who may soon become even more powerful. he can send people to war where they die, he can change tax law, he can press nuclear buttons. jill greenberg is a citizen of this country and can't do any of that stuff. and while notionally john mccain works for her in that regard, in fact we seem to be slipping ever more towards fascism here where Dear Leader Must Not Be Questioned. taking the side of the powerful against the less powerful is the character trait of the sycophant. (also, LEAVE JOHN MCCAIN ALONE WAAAAAAAHHHHHH)
5. jill has taken a significant chance of hurting her career in order to express her political beliefs. this used to be called courage. on strobist it is called "an opportunity for me to get a job that jill would have done." if there has ever been a bigger group of whiny opportunist yuppie-wanna-be bitches in history than non-working-photographers, please let me know where to find them. that i might kick them. nice solidarity, guys, but then you all underbid each other on a daily basis. stay classy.
6. i understand that part of being on strobist or such forums requires that you say "of course her lighting/photography/imagery sucks". i get it. it's the law. but, um, it makes you look like a bunch of jealous children.
7. the right wing in this country, or at least that portion of it that sends out e-mails en masse, simply cannot spell to save its life. it really is depressing. though oddly those e-mailers seem quite aware of how to spell "cunt" and "bitch". sexism is pretty much where they start: vitriol and death threats is where they end.
8. if michelle malkin, ann althouse, WND, Little Green Footballs, gerard "aware of all internet traditions" van den leun and strobist's publisher david hobby all hate you, you are obviously a good person.
9. any of those said right wingers who say "now i will vote for mccain, i was on the fence" are liars. like mccain and palin, lying seems to the main character trait of the far right.
10. if jill loses work because of this, so be it. it's a chance she's willing to take because she loves her country (she's an american citizen, she left canada when she was 2) and doesn't want to see it slide further into the abyss of neo-con stupidity. i support her in this, in all of this, 100%.
this post is necessarily not about the atlantic and the statements of their publisher, per the advice of counsel.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
I know much of what follows may seem hard to believe, but links provided are all genuine.
SARAH PALIN IS NOT QUALIFIED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY. She consorts with far right fringe groups. She lies about her public life. She lies about her personal life. This combination is far too risky for our country in these uncertain times.
There are dangerous forces at work trying to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. There are groups actively working to break up the United States, fringe groups that make it their mission to infiltrate major parties and break this great country into pieces.
And the Republican candidate for vice president supports these groups. The specific group is the ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY.
As GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, she stated that she was “proud of the contributions they made” to state politics. Their platform includes the hope that they create an independent Alaska, one that could hold the rest of the US hostage to their oil hegemony. http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php
SARAH PALIN, who didn’t even follow the war in Iraq until 2006 - and didn’t even have an OPINION about a cause our SOLDIERS FIGHT AND DIE FOR – is not qualified to lead our country. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-surge-wha.html
SHE LIED about opposing the “Bridge to Nowhere,” and took the pork barrel money anyway. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-31-palin-bridge_N.htm?csp=34
SHE LIED about being a tax cutter as mayor of her hometown, as she raised the sales tax often. http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html
SHE THINKS NOTHING OF CALLING OTHER WOMEN IN POLITICS “BITCH” and was party to making fun of another women’s breast cancer (LINK CONTAINS THE AUDIO, AND IT IS UGLY)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-laughs-as-opponent_n_122776.html
SHE LIED about using her political office to exact revenge on her former brother-in-law. http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8933043
Do not succumb to the temptation to think that criticism of Governor Palin is anti-feminist. To choose such a manifestly unprepared and unworthy candidate for the possibility of serving in the highest office in the land shows John McCain understands nothing about women’s rights, or the struggles many of our own mothers went through to overcome every obstacle put in their way. Instead, he insults women with a move born of tokenism and desperation.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1214055407/bclid1342094282/bctid1683827951
jill hangs out with lebron james. he's...tall. really tall.
cover out on monday.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
nice one, danielle. some good old fashioned e.o. wilsonian action going on there.
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Among the most high-profile Jews in Congress, Lieberman is viewed far more unfavorably than the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a new poll. Only 37 percent of Jews view the Connecticut Independent in a favorable light compared to 48 percent who have a negative perception. As for Obama, 60 percent of Jews view him favorably while 34 percent view him unfavorably.Google Reader (393)
as tommmy friedman once said:
suck. on. this.
i am in love with this fact as listed above. it is a STFU to so many people i know both of the liberal worry-wort persuasion and right wingers as well.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Enquête sur les dangers de la télé au berceau - Le Monde 2 - Le Monde.fr
jill's work on the cover of le monde's sunday magazine!!!!
supercool, as they might say.
The (Annotated) Gore Energy Speech - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog
not that i agree with everything revkin adds here, but this is a superb speech from the great visionary public policy statesman of our era. when gore was VP he seemed ok but not necessarily a world-changer. but between his absolutely spot-on speeches in 2002 about iraq (speeches which enraged pretty much every jerk-off in american politics and the media) and his proselytizing on climate, he has risen to the occasion more than anyone else in my lifetime.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Cheney's third term | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
John McCain takes the "conserve" out of "conservative." His entire energy efficiency strategy would fit on one side of a very small file card and can be summarized as follows: Ban Porsches, green federal buildings, and applaud homeowners who do stuff on their own!Cheney's third term | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
bad producer in action
take that, dinosaur media FNC asswipes.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
YouTube - McCain Endorser Pastor John Hagee: God Sent Hitler
john hagee--john mccain's buddy. a hundred times worse than jeremiah wright.
we must keep pounding away at this.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
did you know that we consume 200 billion hours a year of TV in this country?
and that all of wikipedia, in all its languages, and including all its edits/talk pages and so on, totals in human hours 100 million?
pretty mind-boggling. this discussion by clay shirky is well worth following all the way through.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
http://view.break.com/491919 - Watch more free videos
fuck the fucking earth before it fucking fucks you.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Climate change is back, baby! | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Let's start with the temperature. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has their monthly global temperature dataset out through Feb. 2008 (it starts in Jan. 1880). January was only 0.12 degrees C above the 1951-1980 mean (for that month) and a full 0.74 degrees C colder than Jan. 2007 (the warmest January record).
But Feb. 2007 was 0.26 degrees C above the monthly mean, and a mere 0.37 degrees C colder than Feb. 2008. The "legitimate science writer" David Appell explains the staggering implications (if we used the same reasoning as typical delayers):
... the world is warming up at 0.14 degrees C/month, or 3 degrees F per year, or a dramatic 30 degrees F per decade! By 2018, Fairbanks Alaska will be like Atlanta was this year. Atlanta will be ... well, like Hell ...More seriously, this February ripped the tornado record books to shreds as if they had been caught in a giant whirlwind whose intensity had been amplifed by global warming. The country suffered through a stunning 232 tornadoes -- almost triple the previous record, a mere 83 tornadoes in 1971. (Reliable records go back to 1950.)
right. so what is it about climate change that turns rational people into raving anti-science assholes? i've noticed a trend amongst "soft" global warming deniers (non-scientist fox news watching folk) and the "hard" ones--the CEI types, the Bjorn Lomborgs etc. they all tend to be older white males, typically wealthy or at least upper middle class. perhaps there's something there: perhaps these older relatively wealthy men know something. they know they have lived off the fat of the land, and that rather than handing their children and their grandchildren more land and more fat, i think they know on a deep level they've stripped the land bare. and you know what? denial is a perfect way to deal with the fact that your lifestyle has done a ton to contribute to the potential charred hellscape of your grandchildren. because (and here i'm speaking from personal experience) even wealthy white men who watch fox news 24/7 love their grandchildren. so rather than deal with reality, it's easier to make nonsensical claims about climate, rejecting science in most cases for the first time in their adult lives.
it's sad, but if the cause of this stupidity is a sense of hopelessness, then they should get over it. there are things that can be done, and i've noticed that wealthy older white men wield a lot of power in this world.
so--get over yourselves, and get on the stick. because otherwise the kid below is going to smother you in your sleep when he gets a bit older.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Bush Tied to Child Prostitution - Resignation or Impeachment Expected! | Democrats.com
eliot spitzer--asshole, hypocrite, and self-destructive fool.
george bush, war criminal.
it's all about emphasis.
Monday, March 10, 2008
an inspiring story of how students can be the engine of their own change (just like we were in the 80s with apartheid). living the change you believe in--a beautiful thing.
