Banal kvetching

I was out of alignment yesterday.  It was much too easy for me to get off in the weeds and pissed off about something, and much too hard for me to get back. So I texted Saintseester last night from Aaron’s soccer practice (which began 10 minutes late, ended 20 minutes late, and occurred in … Read more

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is May 20

Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris has declared May 20 Everybody Draw Mohammed Day—a response to Comedy Central’s recent unfortunate decision to cave to threats in the name of Islam and heavily censor an episode of South Park. Quoting Andrew Mellon at BigJournalism.com: The bottom line is that the First Amendment guarantees free speech including criticism of … Read more

A solution “to a crisis we did not create, and which the federal government has refused to address.”

So says Arizona governor Jan Brewer about the illegal immigration bill she just signed into law. My favorite part of the early fallout is that Mexico is warning that the new law “could affect cross-border relations.”  Now just what the hell does that mean?  Exactly what carrots are our neighbors to the south currently giving … Read more

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