May 2010
10 posts
Tea Party, Health Care, “Reload”—the long view «... →
Right now, the health care bill that passed Congress this month is causing an almost inexplicable torrent of rage amongst a small portion of Americans. These are the small minority of very vocal people who always want to stop the American experiment of accepting and driving social change (see The Great American Experiment), a reactionary fraction who always believe the past was better than the...
Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law... →
Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently — and they seem to have come out on the losing end.
First, a Tennessee man was arrested after walking into his local county courthouse to try to effect a citizen’s arrest of a grand jury foreman who had refused to investigate President Obama’s...
Anti-Gay Leader Caught With Male Prostitute Pleads... →
When George Alan Rekers, a cofounder along with James Dobson of the Family Research Council and a leader in the ex-gay movement, was caught walking off a plane from Europe with a young male prostitute, he first insisted that he didn’t know the young man was an escort until halfway through their 10-day vacation.
“I had surgery,” Rekers told the Miami New Times, which broke the...
Crying Toddler - a haiku
toldorknown:
Lowered head to push Her mommy, but mommy moved. Thud! (the wall did not)