Steering into the skid: Books for the End of the World.
Preface: It is the day after the 2004 election. I am devastated, and angry and afraid. I want to move to Canada. I go to my mother's house during lunch and weep on her shoulder, like I haven't...
View ArticleKS Repubs now want to have a "hearing" about KU professor's...
Not content with KU professor's beating for his outspoken criticism of Intelligent Design, republican lawmakers now want to have a "hearing" about Paul Mirecki's job. Link to article
View Article25 American protesters fasting outside Gitmo
Members of Witness Against Torture, a christian group, began a fast at the military checkpoint about 5 miles from Guantanimo prison.
View ArticleGay clams: Or, How to get wingnuts to care about Pollution.
"So there's mercury in your tuna fish, MTBE in your groundwater, and high concentrations of growth hormone in your milk. All you tree-huggers can do is bitch, bitch, bitch. We just can't afford to...
View ArticleBreaking: Cat in the Hat wins Corinth
Preface: Back in the dismal week following the 2004 election, our library had a children's program called "Books Get Our Vote." Kids were invited to cast a ballot in a cardboard booth, for which they...
View ArticleKline files charges against KS clinic doctor.(Updated.)
Phill Kline, Kansas’attorney general, filed charges against Wichita doctor George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who will perform late term abortions. Tiller and his clinic have endured...
View ArticleImpeach, smeach. I have a better idea.
Enough talk of investigations and proceedings. If it is true that Cheney and Bush are planning to attack Iran, then we are officially out of time. They need to be stopped. But think about this: we...
View ArticleMy letter to Rep. Cleaver.
This is the letter I will be sending to my Representative asking him to co-sponsor H. Res. 333. I am posting it here in case anyone wants to use it to send a similar letter to their rep, and also for...
View ArticleIn which I write to my Rep about impeachment, and recieve a letter back about...
Last week I sent a letter to Representative Cleaver urging him to co-sponsor the resolution to bring impeachment proceedings against Cheney. Being a good Kossack, I double checked to make sure I was...
View ArticleBut there is no Beastie! A call to revel in Fear.
"He says the Beastie came out of the dark.""Then he couldn’t see it!""He still says he saw the beastie.""He was dreaming!""He says he saw the beastie, and will it come back tonight?""But there isn’t a...
View ArticleEndgame: What the Fascist Takeover Will Look Like.
I finished reading Naomi Wolf’s The End of America: Letters of Warning to a Young Patriot. After reading the book I began to wonder what fascism would look like in America.In this short, concisely...
View ArticleNot only That, but your Twinkies may be threatened. (with poll.)
Sure, they are rioting for food in Haiti. Yes, the melting glaciers are threatening fresh water supply. But, did you know that the eternal Twinkie may soon be on the endangered list?The Interstate...
View ArticleBaghdad: Theme-Park Deprived No Longer!
[Llewellyn] Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive...
View ArticleWhen Was the Last Time You Felt Real Privacy? Think About it.
Raise your hand if this happened to you: You had a notebook in school, or a binder or a scrap of paper. You wrote something personal on it. Maybe it was just a sentence, like "Chris Jones is a total...
View ArticleCall to Arms: Protest this Thursday on Wall Street
Naomi Klein is demanding that we the people get off of our collective butts and voice opposition before this deal gets signed and our money gets ripped off. From www.naomiklein.org:This week the White...
View ArticleFood Pantries Need Help
I recieved the following e-mail from someone at work who is in charge of our organizations food drives and United Way campaigns. The area I work in (not live in) has always been considered affluent....
View ArticleSo long, Cursor.
I just dicovered that the progressive site Cursor.org has folded due to lack of funds. The last posting, October 10th, is still up, as well as the many, many links, and if you never knew Cursor, I...
View ArticleIf the Bush Administration was your roomate.
In this last week I've been thinking: How can I commemorate the final days of Geroge W? What can I really say that will capture the memories?When sending a batch of old videotapes to the library...
View ArticleIf the Bush Administration Was Your Roomate II
This is the best tribute I could think of for this man and his cohorts. A few days ago I posted the first two if this series of 5 30 second spots entitled "If the Bush Administration Were Your...
View ArticleFred Phelps targets High School, Students Shout them Down.
The kids are all right. There are a lot of times when you sink to your knees and think nothing will ever change, the fight is too hard and too long and the world is full of prejudice. Then there's days...
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