Thank you, thank you so much for this award. I am quite emotional, and I don’t know what to say. I mean, I don’t have a speech prepared, so I’m just going to have to ad-lib it. First, I would like to thank all the little people–what? What award am I accepting? Why, the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Politics
The Baser Side of Me
I’m still grieving. I have read many things in lefty blogs about Dr. Tiller’s murder, and I can’t seem to shake it. Partly because I was lulled into thinking that this kind of violence was in the past. Partly because I am just so damn discouraged at how the GOP still gets to define how… Continue Reading
Sick at Heart
I am grieving today for a man I’ve never met. Until this day, I was only vaguely aware of him. Who is this man? Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who performed late-term abortions. He was one of only three doctors in the country to handle such abortions. Read the section called Jesus’s Jihadis. And today,… Continue Reading
She’s a Spicy Tamale!
And so it begins. Even before Sonia Sotomayor was picked by Obama as his first SCOTUS nominee, the monkeys started howling about how unfit she was. I blogged about the indignation here. In that entry, I deconstructed what racism feels like (as much as I could) and how white privilege is rampant and unexamined (by… Continue Reading
It’s Torture
I love words, as you know. Why use one word when ten will do? That said, I have two words for the ‘debate’ surrounding the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ we employed at Gitmo and other prisons. It’s torture. There can be no debate. The right says, “But it works!” Then, the left gets derailed into… Continue Reading
An Open Letter to the EX-Vice President
Dear Dick: Sir, it pains me to have to write this letter as I would prefer to pretend that you simply did not exist. Barring that, I would like to keep you in your undisclosed location, cackling over Tales from the Crypt while drinking a pint of blood from an undisclosed source while stroking your… Continue Reading
Fuck It All
I just read an entry from my friend, whabs’ blog. It is beautiful, poignant, and lyrical. She talks about her life journey and how she is now ready to live life passionately. This entry really touched me because I am feeling the exact opposite these days. I have been in a deep funk for the… Continue Reading
Religious Rapture, Part VII
Ok. We are at the end of a week of religion-based entries, and this is the final installment. No, this doesn’t mean I will never write about religion ever again–only that I have other things about which I want to blog, and a week solid of any one topic is more than enough (except, of… Continue Reading
Religion and Reason, Part VI
Ok. I had it all mapped out in my mind how this entry was going to go. Wouldn’t you know it? President Obama beat me to it. He gave the commencement speech at Notre Dame today amid controversy and a few hecklers. Here is Part I: Now, in case you don’t know, the talking heads… Continue Reading
Religion Redux, Part V
So. Over the past four days, I have outlined my spiritual journey until this point in my life. It hasn’t been easy, and I still struggle with my spirituality. I have made my peace, for the most part, with Christianity. I no longer hate God (with a capital G) or am mad at Him.… Continue Reading