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Cross-posted to The Debate Link. John Cole gives a needed reminder about those who “chose” to stay in New Orleans: I have said I am out of touch with America regarding what is expected for disaster relief. Maybe, but the people spreading the meme that the vast majority of who did not evacuate New Orleans did so because they simply chose to ignore the warnings are out of touch with reality. I just heard James Carville state that the Governor and Mayor did all they could, and that some...

Two photos, both showing Hurricane victims dragging items while wading through chest-deep water. Two captions–the first in which the man is labeled a “looter,” the second, where the couple are “finders.” Who can guess the difference between photo one and two? More at The Debate Link.

The latest FRC briefing contains a double-whammy: marginalizing anti-Semetism in the Armed Forces (which was to be expected), and then lionizing racist ex-Senator Jesse Helms (which I’ll admit stunned even me). I parse both issues at The Debate Link. For background on the Air Force’s response to religious harassment, see here, here, and here. For background on Helms and his new book, see here.

Via Andrew Sullivan, this story on gay Penguins: A good friend of mine worked on “Rock Island” at the Baltimore Zoo for several years after college. Rock Island is the home of the zoo’s colony of African (Black-footed) penguins. If memory serves, African penguins mate for life rather than seasonally — which included the for-life pair of Bob and Dave. Apparently some of the (heterosexual) mating pairs weren’t terribly adept at caring for their eggs or young, so when these...

…Not to co-opt Joe’s catchphrase, but I think this qualifies. Issuing a blanket pardon to your own flacks during the heart of a corruption investigation? Governor Ernie Fletcher might have moved to the top of the GOP’s sleaze hierarchy.

The evaluations of Bush on Darfur, Clinton on Rwanda, and America toward both are one and the same: horrible.

Both Bitch Ph.D. and Kevin Drum have linked to this post, but if you haven’t been there already I highly encourage you to read one woman’s experience as an aid worker in Darfur. No bones about it, this is horrifying stuff: She finished her mission in Chad, then went to Zimbabwe for three more weeks before she came home. She brought home a pretty good case of PTSD. What she dealt with daily goes beyond the pale…beyond the nightmares of most people; Children with all four limbs hacked...

Virginia Centrist echoes a Mickey Kaus claim that Democrats should keep themselves totally invisible for the next two years and let the Bush-hating media demolish the GOP for them. The strategy may be sound, but is the causality? I’m not sure that the media is particularly “Bush-hating.” Sure, it smells blood in the water, but I’m not sure it’s the one that caused the wound. It seems to me that the media is rationally responding to a series of major missteps by the Bush...

If you’ve got some time on your hands, might I recommend Trojan Horses of Race by UCLA Law Professor Jerry Kang? On the one hand, it’s 105 pages long (Harvard Law Review…whatcha gonna do?). On the other, it is a spectacular eye-opener to those who think that racism is dead in American society. Bored, but don’t feel like reading (or reading that much)? Test yourself! The IAT measures implicit racism and other prejudices–the type of deep-seated, subconscious mentalities...

And here I thought all liberal Justices were wild activist nutcases. PS: Sorry for the long gap between posts–I was away in Myrtle Beach and internet access was not as…forthcoming as I thought.

Okay, suppose the US left Iraq. Would there be mass chaos or blissful harmony?

We have no idea, and that’s what makes the equal pay/equal work question just so thorny. But I don’t think we can be so sure the Invisible Hand is just neutrally and fairly dispatching its bounty.

Ann Althouse was invited to take an all expenses-paid trip to see “Justice Sunday”–the Christian Right’s bashing of Judicial Activism (Lawrence, Roe), Judicial Restraint (Kelo), gays (Lawrence again), and non-Christians (Engel). In actuality, it’s probably a good thing the good Professor turned them down–she thought it was pretty awful (stunning, I know). I’m sorry, but when Captain’s Quarters is going “ehhh…”, something is going wrong....

Great. After all my happy chirping about how Roberts wasn’t that bad a pick, it turns out he may be a radical after all.

In its alter ego, the Presbyterian Church apparently also serves as the Jedi Council. Because while prayer is all well and good, for some problems you just need to use the Force. Thanks to Dan Drezner for the link.

This was a long overdue project. Of course, Reagan’s “11th Commandment” should be an anathema anyway–criticism and dissent are essential to any functioning body, be it a nation, community, company, or political party. But when one supports “the Party as an end rather than a means,” blind loyalty is a very predictable consequence. Well, we’ll see how this plays out. In the meantime, John Cole gets credit for the link (though the idea is a bit redundent for...

The dear friends at Focus on the Family have brought us a helpful checklist to determine whether your pre-pubescent son is gay. Since our readers tend to be pinko-commie-liberals, and it’s my patriotic duty to save their children from gayness (they of course, don’t care, because non-Christian Fundamentalist hate children. And families. And puppies. And rainbows), I will share the glorious enlightenment of Dr. Dobson, et al.. So, for all the concerned parents out there, here it is–the...

How power affects “black on white” racism–and why both “structural” and “individual” power are too simplistic to deal with the scope of the problem.

I don’t know how many of our readers are interested in theology, but I’ve penned a Jewish response to a Christian interpretation of Ezekiel. Be warned–the second, “radical,” half of my piece might be disturbing to some.

Yeah, it’s confusing. But if you’ve been finding my stuff on Malkin and the application of Critical Race Theory to conservative minorities, you may find this post interesting too (though it, itself, has nothing to do with the Malkin controversy).

Cicero said that. When it comes to genocide, mass murder, and other atrocities, America has been silent for too long. And it’s lack of resolve doesn’t just affect us, in fact, it affects us very little. What it does do is silence the millions of victims of government sponsored torture, murder, rape, and terror that continue on to this day and whose only hope for salvation comes from an international community that, for better or for worse (and present spats notwithstanding), still looks...

Cross-posted to The Debate Link. Though I’m not Kos, I thought it would be fun to play him for a post. So as they say over there: Elevated from the comments of this post by David (yeah, yeah, I know. They elevate “diaries.” Sue me). I just did an informal survey, among some friends of mine (all attorneys ranging from moderate progressive to slightly conservative to libertarian/objectivist). All work here in Colorado, drink beers with me occasionally. I asked each (separately):...

What’s the difference between the extreme right and the sensible right? The reaction to John Roberts working pro bono in the Romer case provides a clue.

My reflections and observations of how I was treated by fellow liberals during my stint defending Michelle Malkin from a sexist attack is available here.