Wow. Our President is Ambitious!

My head is still reeling and I’m trying to catch my breath. I guess I’d better start applying to colleges. He wants every citizen to go back to school. I wonder if this means I can hang out at coffee houses and smoke Afghani hash. Um, sorry. But that’s what college meant back in the [...]

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Homeless Shelter planned for 620 Fallsway

I don’t understand why the good folk at the Sun are surprised that the residents of Mount Vernon are giving this project a thumbs up.
Opposition to this should be expected from some business owners and political types that are well connected to the real estate community. The proximity of homeless folk inevitably effects property values, [...]

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Congressional Doublespeak

Some of the stuff that comes out of the mouths of congresspersons makes me fear for the future of America.
Most of you either know or could guess that I’m a left wing radical revolutionary from way back. I don’t have much sympathy for the bourgeois class that have led this country into financial ruin. That [...]

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Eightmaps and Democracy

The nominally Christian right has an uncanny ability to confuse their self-righteousness with righteousness, especially it seems, when it comes to gay folk. This is clear in the current controversy concerning the right wing challenge to California’s Political Reform Act of 1974. For over thirty years this law has required disclosure of financial donations over [...]

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Wyoming rejects H8 and other good news.

A bill aimed at banning gay marriage in Wyoming has been defeated in the House last week after a mere hour of debate. Despite strong opposition and activism from the usual suspects wiser minds prevailed. Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign said, “We are grateful that the Wyoming House of Representatives stood up for [...]

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Holocaust Denial Bishop Reinstated (updated)

Defrocked Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, infamous for denying the Holocaust on Swedish television, has been welcomed back to the fold of the Catholic Church. Church officials and their minions are quick to point out that he was excommunicated for being consecrated as Bishop in a manner that lacked approval of the Church, not for his [...]

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