Let's start calling Christianists by name
Hendrik Hertzberg in his "Talk of the Town" piece in The New Yorker this week (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050404ta_talk_hertzberg) casually used, without elaborating on the...
View ArticleUpdated: Rampages and Ethnicity
I have been following the news about Cho Seung-Hui all day, and have been struck by the media's need to identify him as "from South Korea," or as a resident alien. This is all true: Cho arrived from...
View ArticleA meme we MUST stop!
Yesterday, in a typically inane column Brooks argues that voters want a few simple things from their government. As usual, he proposes some mythical third way that doesn't exist, but here's the...
View ArticleRepublicans admit: We have nothing to offer anyone under 40!
Frank Rich's excellent column today points out some of the obvious flaws with the Republican candidates' seemingly reflexive adoration of Ronald Reagan: that the Reagan coalition has been fractured by...
View ArticleA Psalma for Obama (w/poll)
A reading from the Book of MadLibrarian unto the Disciples of the Righteous One.
View ArticleThe Theoretical Death of Dick Cheney: On Distinguishing Between Enemies and...
The controversy here at DKos over what comments are appropriate or inappropriate when a public figure dies got me thinking about civil discourse, or the lack thereof. Usually I come down on the side of...
View ArticleYou want to research something? Research THIS!
As usual, Kossacks are doing terrific online sleuthing, tracking down the whole cross-in-the-dirt story. By tomorrow morning, anyone who wants to know the full story about this will be able to find...
View ArticleWomen's Issues and the 2008 Election
In a year in which one woman came within a hair's breadth of being a major party candidate for President and another is on the ticket, and the airwaves and blogosphere are full of conversations about...
View ArticleRacism in its purest form
Yes, Barack Obama is Black.But as Colin Powell once said of himself, he ain't that Black.Barack Obama was raised by his white mother and white grandparents, living mostly in white communities.And as...
View ArticleIs Your Library Harboring Socialists?????
Did you know that libraries are institutions that give away thousands of dollars worth of free resources at taxpayer expense?Did you know that when times are tough, library usage goes way up?These...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Option; or I Got News for Joe Lieberman
Senator Joe Lieberman told right-wing radio host Glen Beck that he fears America will not survive if the Democrats get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.Two important news items for Senator...
View ArticleFrugal cooking for hard times
Food is expensive, but eating continues to be necessary!Let's talk about cheap, but good and healthy food.I have a few ideas...what are yours?
View ArticleHappy Candlemas! Imbolc! Groundhog Day!
At times like these, we need all the cheerful holidays we can get, particularly the kind unfreighted with obligations to buy one another things to the point of bankruptcy.Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, is...
View ArticleGive me back my @#$^&* Tea Parties, Wingnuts!
Why, of all the kinds of parties the crazy people could throw, why, oh why, must it be a TEA party?They could have gone with Surprise, Coming Out, Birthday, Bachelorette, or even Pity, but no! They...
View ArticleResign, Gov. Paterson, updated with breaking news
Update: Paterson WILL not seek re-election: Paterson Drops OutIs it a serious crime for a man to brutalize a woman? Or is just another case of "boys will be boys" to you? Is it acceptable for state...
View ArticleRe-framing Bullying: Not Popular, but Powerful
(cross-posted at Perfect Whole)Lies Told to Bullying Victims Over the Years: A CompendiumThe people who torment you are popular, a word that means “well-liked.” If people whom everyone else likes find...
View ArticleThe Wages of Conformity & Occupy Wall Street
What follows is adapted from Part 5 of a series on my blog, Perfect Whole, exploring personal experiences and pop culture representations of being different (a "freak") over the past few decades. The...
View ArticleGod Bless You. Or Not.
{Cross-posted at MadLibrarian's blog, Perfect Whole}Safe home!Life is dangerous. Our travels can be hazardous in bad weather. We get sick and injured. We get our hearts broken. We get tides of bad luck...
View ArticlePost-Apocalyptic Career Counseling: Part I
(cross posted at Perfect Whole. First in a three-part series.)I. Demise of the Standard-Issue Career AdviceWhat are you telling the rising generation about how to succeed in the post-apocalyptic...
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Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling Part II
(cross posted at Perfect Whole. Second in a three-part series.)II. Life Beyond the Success Algorithm"My whole life, I had been doing everything everybody told me. I went to the right school. I got...
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