Archive for February 17th, 2011
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others… he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
I’m quite optimistic about this Wisconsin thing catching on. New Jersey and Ohio seem to be likely candidates.
How Not To Talk About Rape
We haven’t really talked about the case of Lara Logan, the CBS foreign correspondent who was separated from her crew in Egypt and then sexually assaulted. It’s been depressing watching it play out, not only because of the depressing nature of the crime, but also because people are cruel. Echidne of the Snakes has monitored […]
Texas Tidbits
Gail Collins has a wonderful piece in today’s New York Times that rightly slams Texas and its governor, Rick Perry, about education and abstinence.
Repeal The Job-Killing Speaker Of The House
John Boehner on Tuesday: “Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it.”
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