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November 16, 2008

Tell ‘em, Keith.

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A constitution is not something you can just change at will with contradictory additions in order to target minorities. I'm pretty sure doing so isn't democracy.The thing is, why aren't people rioting yet? Do you know who this kind of legislation hurts? Sure, it hurts gay people. It hurts gay fa...

November 6, 2008

President Obama

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Congratulations, President Obama. I am sincerely happy today and I believe you are as well. I'm sure you are exhausted in a variety of ways, and I wish that your grandmother could have seen last night.I am trying to figure out why, exactly, I am happy today.Despite Fox news' pronouncements, racism...

October 19, 2008

If you're frightened by this video, please stand up.

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Al-Jazeera allows some of the GOP voting base a voice in this news piece at a Palin rally in eastern Ohio. Perhaps this is ironic, seeing that the sentiments voiced here are rarely seen on the media we project to ourselves, at least so directly.BlackAmericaWeb had this to say about the logic of the...

October 2, 2008

Overheard in, um, the Midwest

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A response to Palin's passport comments:When asked by Katie Couric why she only applied for a passport within the last year, Sarah Palin replied in her snarky, homecoming-queen way that well, she didn’t have parents who sent her to prep school or paid for her passport to send her to Europe with a ...

March 16, 2008

March 13, 2008

Why This Guy Supports Obama

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Lawrence Lessig uses his signature presentation style to spell out three major reasons why Barack Obama is preferable to Hillary Clinton. It takes about 20 minutes to watch, so you'll need a bit of patience and some quiet, but you know you're just wasting time at the computer anyway: The most com...

Just Like Her Mama's Baby's Daddy

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In Caroline Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama that was published in the New York Times, Kennedy says of Obama that he is the first political figure to make her feel about the USA the way that people tell her that her father made them feel when she was a child.To be completely honest, I'm...