You probably already noticed this, but I just thought I’d bring it back to everyone’s attention that Sarah Palin is frighteningly uninformed. This would be funny if she weren’t really, truly the Republican vice presidential candidate, and if people didn’t believe the bullshit she spews about Obama. ”Never lifted a finger,” huh? So what does […]
I love Glossed Over. It’s so funny and snarky and right.
And, you probably don’t need me to tell you this, but Wonkette has been great lately (and always). The epithets are my favorite part: McCain is “WALNUTS!”, or “The Maverick Sun King of Sedona,” or “Firebomb McWarpants.” They also recently described Palin as “known woman […]
Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin:
Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much […]
Reading these excerpts from John McCain’s speech on foreign policy made me uncomfortable. I don’t know what the best thing to do about Iraq is–part of me wants the war to be over right away, for all the obvious reasons, and part of me feels like we made that mess and we’re responsible for […]
Barack Obama’s speech on race was so good that just reading it made me sort of tear up. It would probably sound pretty hokey to my students, since they have no reason to feel proud of the United States, but my first urge was to show it to them. But they wouldn’t be […]
The Repudiation of Rove
Barack’s record on abortion.
Michael Chabon on Barack Obama. Thanks MM.
NPR “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats”
I am so glad to see my views on meat stated intelligently in the New York Times, backed up by so much research.
Living in a country where “salade” is often best translated “pile of lardons on a bed of lettuce,” I feel challenged as a vegetarian. A lot of French people are bewildered by […]