"Words that make actions speak louder."
Today is World AIDS Day, and while I’d like to write something about it, I can’t come up with anything better than a post I wrote a few years ago. That’s because so much has changed since then, for better and for worse. The numbers are more encouraging now than they were three yearse ago, […]
I know this seems like low hanging fruit. But Sarah Palin is back, and along with her mindless blather has returned the chorus of “do not under estimate Palin” and/or “Sarah must be taken seriously.” Seriously? We’re supposed to take seriously someone who just days ago was spouting nonsense (in the words of a conservative […]
We’d talked about it earlier in the week, but hadn’t really made a definite decision to go. Then, Sunday morning I came downstairs to find this Washington Post story on the computer monitor. On Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-year-old Heaven Skyler Wilson dragged herself off the school bus that dropped her in front of her home […]
The first time I heard it, I did a double-take, because I thought I heard it wrong. The second time I heard it, I rolled my eyes. The third time I heard Sarah Palin, in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, suggest that women who choose to terminate pregnancies are essentially “taking the easy way out.” […]
Michelle Bachman’s “Superbowl of Freedom” (or “Bachmannalia”) was not the first protest with such attention grabbing signage, but merely the latest. September saw Glenn Beck’s 9/12 marchers descend upon Washington. Again, they brought their message-bearing signs and posters. And their signs made their message and motivation clear.
I’ve used this quote (attributed to Maya Angelou) before: “When people show you who they really are, believe them.” I guess in periods of tremendous change people really reveal who they really are. I’ll return to this in more detail post, but the news and debate leading up to and following the passage of health […]
(The sixth in of a series of seven.) Nothing in Common If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words is true, then a couple of images might sum up the debate of over health care reform, and prove representative of the opposing sides. [Via Preemptive Karma.] [Via Wikimedia Commons.] President Obama also […]
House Republicans have presented a health care reform “plan” that doesn’t fix our broken health care system (but might make it worse), and (according to the CBO) doesn’t do much to fix the deficit conservatives say t
First, it was Sen. Landerieu’s nonsense. Now we get this from Sen. Joe Lieberman. Enough is enough. When Democrats start parroting Republican talking points, they are showing us who they are. We need to treat accordingly. Especially when their take on health care reform is pretty much the same as the GOP’s, in terms of […]
Steve Benen asks a question about the Republican health care reform plan — or lack thereof — that I’m certain I’ve seen answered already. The House Republican leadership "guaranteed" that they would offer an alternative health care reform bill. If my count is right, that was 134 days ago. Asked about when Americans can expect […]