That link to the Hair Petting Game is making the rounds of the blogs as people collectively go “WTF!! Why isn’t someone smacking them?” The fun thing for me is that there have been at least three discussions where someone brings up the fact that
The 8th Erase Racism Carnival is up. Go read!
Voters in Michigan passed an anti-Affirmative Action law (Proposal 2) last November. According to the bill’s proponents, the purpose was to “prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment based on skin color or gender.” The language that voters saw in the ballot box: The proposed
My nod to MLK day. here are some words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both real and fictional. The first is what he really did say (well, write) from a jail in Birmingham over 40 years ago. The second bit on the bottom is
Uh… life? Sickness, laziness, the holidays, travel, more sickness, more holidays, work, family, stuff. I’m back. Sorry! Also going to clean up the ocmments this week. Jesus, you leave for 4 months and it all falls apart. What kicked me into posting again? This: New
If you missed the discussion in last Monday’s debate post, I encourage you to take some time to read the comments there. Very interesting things said and points raised. Tomorrow afternoon I’m disabling comments, so if you have more to say you should, you know,
Sorry no roundup yesterday. Life intruded upon blogging! First and foremost: The 5th Erase Racism Carnival is up at Black Looks. As always with carnivals, there are very interesting and informative posts you should read. I don’t have a lot to say on the Clinton
(crossposted to my dairy over at DailyKos, which has some… interesting reactions.) The political blogs are all over this whole torture thing and shrub’s hissy fit in the Rose Garden. I am watching the debate from way, way back because I don’t see any good
My new idea for getting other people to say interesting things on my blog: Monday Debate. This is where I invite folks to come in, sit a spell, and have a discussion on a contentious topic. The main reason for doing so is to try