This comment needs repeating: I take Obama's comment as saying to boys who look like Trayvon: "Geraldo Rivera may say you look like a threat. I say you look like a President's son." And whatever happens from here, him saying that right now seems worth it. Cross posted from Prairie Weather … [Read more...] about Obama’s Son
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7 Reasons Mad Men’s Season Premiere is ‘Insanely Riveting’
A&E is the place to be tonight. The Week: Best Opinion: Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, Wash. Post "If Sunday night's two-hour return episode of Mad Men ended after the first four minutes, it would still put the show in contention to win its fifth straight Emmy as the best drama on television," says David Hinckley at New York's Daily News. That's tantalizing news for the … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons Mad Men’s Season Premiere is ‘Insanely Riveting’
Georgia Senate To Vote On Anti-Abortion Bill Monday
Sometime in the last month, a friend told me that Margaret Atwood said her dystopian novel, A Handmaid's Tale, was not supposed to be predictive. When the Canadian author wrote this book in the early 1980s, could she have imagined that her fictional theocracy would foreshadow, in her lifetime, the environment south of the 49th parallel? The Georgia General Assembly is on … [Read more...] about Georgia Senate To Vote On Anti-Abortion Bill Monday
Meme-Busting: No Arrest In Either Trayvon Martin Or Kim Kardashian Cases
It's a great juxtaposition of the absurd. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26 and the man who confessed still walks free, no arrest. Kim Kardashian was "flour bombed" on Thursday ... and the perp was arrested ... right? Wrong, despite what Piers Morgan, LeVar Burton, Think Progress and a host of other celebrities, entertainers and normal folks say. My Storify … [Read more...] about Meme-Busting: No Arrest In Either Trayvon Martin Or Kim Kardashian Cases
You Deserve an Old Fashioned Laugh… but You Have to Work for it A Bit
1. ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonalds 2. AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tries to do 3. BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage 4. BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with 5. CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate (I had to think about this one. . . but got it!) 6. COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets 7. ECLIPSE: What an English … [Read more...] about You Deserve an Old Fashioned Laugh… but You Have to Work for it A Bit
Heroes Honoring Heroes
Friday was the 150th anniversary of the Medal of Honor and tomorrow, Sunday, is National Medal of Honor Day. On Friday, at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, several Medal of Honor recipients honored three civilians with “Citizen Service Before Self Honors.” Heroes who Medal of Honor recipient Patrick Brady said “are the kind of people we fought for.” Please read … [Read more...] about Heroes Honoring Heroes
Ensign Ricky Wins Louisiana
Sounds like he will win by a wide margin with Romney 2nd and Newt 3rd. Still doesn't change the fact Romney is the nominee. … [Read more...] about Ensign Ricky Wins Louisiana
Cheney Has Heart Transplant
Word just breaking a little while ago that former VP Cheney received a heart transplant. Hopefully we all put partisanship aside to wish him a speedy recovery, but feel free to insert your own good humoured jokes here … [Read more...] about Cheney Has Heart Transplant
Department of Give Me A Break
I mean: really.... … [Read more...] about Department of Give Me A Break
Rick Santorum’s Final Offensive to Woo America’s Voters
Buoyed by his victory in Puerto Rico, attributed to the Senator’s penchant for standing by his principles and telling it like it isn’t, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum intends to continue to speak his convictions from his heart, from his gut and from his foot-in-mouth. Since he has Louisiana all sewn up, there is really no need to alienate motivate the voters … [Read more...] about Rick Santorum’s Final Offensive to Woo America’s Voters
[Update 4] Trayvon Martin: The Three-Week Old Story, Politics and Florida’s Right-To-Kill Law
Update: 3:17 pm Pacific In this ABC News Video, at about 2:40 the reporter states that Trayvon Martin made a 9-1-1 call just before his death and the call captures Zimmerman's voice in the background. This allegation has not been corroborated by any other media. [Tip to Educator @Anti_Intellect] When I read Newt Gingrich's comments about Trayvon Martin this morning, I … [Read more...] about [Update 4] Trayvon Martin: The Three-Week Old Story, Politics and Florida’s Right-To-Kill Law
[Updated] How The Trayvon Martin Case Unfolded
George Zimmerman (28, age first reported as 26) gunned down Trayvon Martin (17) the evening of Sunday, February 26, 2012 in a gated neighborhood (The Retreat at Twin Lakes) located in Sanford, FL, a suburb of Orlando. On March 19, the state attorney general told media that a federal grand jury will convene on April 10. Read more in Part 1: The Three Week Old Story, … [Read more...] about [Updated] How The Trayvon Martin Case Unfolded
New Trayvon Martin Twist: Anonymous Witness Reportedly Tells Police Martin Attacked Zimmerman
We've run a lot of posts on the Trayvon Martin killing controversy. And as TMV Guest Voice Columnist Simon Owens notes, there has been a truly shocking lack of coverage of this story from some conservative websites. So it'll be interesting to see if suddenly -- as a further sign of just how everything in American politics must devolve into a partisan and ideological struggle -- … [Read more...] about New Trayvon Martin Twist: Anonymous Witness Reportedly Tells Police Martin Attacked Zimmerman
Study Reveals that Facts Don’t Matter to U.S. Conservatives (News, Switzerland)
Has the scientific method lost all relevance to conservative Republicans in America? The question is not new. But now, according to this editorial from Switzerland's News, a scientific study conducted by researchers at Yale University shows that not only doesn't the U.S. right put much stock in what is known as 'scientific fact,' but more educated Republicans are just as … [Read more...] about Study Reveals that Facts Don’t Matter to U.S. Conservatives (News, Switzerland)
I Gave Them a Sword (Guest Voice)
I Gave Them a Sword by David Goodloe Thirty–five years ago yesterday, journalist David Frost and former President Richard Nixon sat down for the first of the Frost–Nixon interviews in Monarch Bay, Calif. The interviews were edited into four 90–minute programs that were broadcast in May 1977. After Nixon's resignation in August 1974, he more or less disappeared from … [Read more...] about I Gave Them a Sword (Guest Voice)
Home Alone: The Trend, Not The Movie (Guest Voice)
Home Alone: The Trend, Not The Movie by Danny Tyree Paradox of the week: if you live alone, you're not alone. According to "Going Solo: The Extraordinary And Surprising Appeal of Living Alone," by Eric Klineberg, PhD, more than 50 percent of American adults are single (up from 22 percent in 1950), and one in seven adults lives alone. Granted, the statistics are … [Read more...] about Home Alone: The Trend, Not The Movie (Guest Voice)
For Obama, a Racial Flashback
“If I had a son,” the President said yesterday, “he’d look like Trayvon,” the boy whose shooting by a Florida neighborhood watchman has become the subject of obsessive national discussion. “All of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how I can only imagine what these parents are going through,” he added. “When I think about this boy, I think about my own … [Read more...] about For Obama, a Racial Flashback
Stand Your Ground Before He Stands His Ground
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Welcome to Election Year: Gingrich Calls Obama’s Comments on Trayvon Martin Killing “Disgraceful”
Welcome to election year. Today President Barack Obama responded to a reporter's question about the killing of unarmed 17 year old Trayvon Martin by armed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. And most pundits and politicos felt his comments were on target. But this is election year. So -- just like clockwork -- his comments were immediately denounced as … [Read more...] about Welcome to Election Year: Gingrich Calls Obama’s Comments on Trayvon Martin Killing “Disgraceful”