Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?
From Tom Dispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175684/tomgram%3A_bill_mckibben%2C_how_do_you_solve_a_problem_like_the_democrats/ And If So, Is That Terrible News? By Bill McKibben April 7, 2013 A...
View ArticleSubsidies Play “Significant Role” in Climate Change, IMF Says
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/news/item/15580-subsidies-play-significant-role-in-climate-change-imf-says By Carey L. Biron Sunday, 07 April 2013 Washington – The International Monetary Fund...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Start Paying Close Attention to the Mechanisms of the...
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/06-3 by Ralph Nader Published on Saturday, April 6, 2013 by Common Dreams It’s time to start paying close attention to the mechanisms of...
View ArticleArrests by the Fashion Police
From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/arrests-by-the-fashion-police.html By GINIA BELLAFANTE Published: April 5, 2013 Here is a vignette from March 2013: A 24-year-old...
View ArticleMargret Thatcher is Dead at Last, Her Evil Lives On. Time to Put Reaganism...
I consider Reagan and Thatcher to have been monstrously evil people, their ideologies as vile as those of Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, and Stalin. I do not mourn either and I hold their ideology as well...
View ArticleAnti-Thatcher Songs
I offer no kindly platitudes about evil Maggie Thatcher. I do not see her serving as PM being any sort of show of progress for women. I guess my feminism is more left wing working class feminism than...
View ArticleGod Hustler Rick Warren’s Son Committed Suicide
I’m over flowing with Schadenfreude today. Rick Warren’s son killed himself over the week end. For those who wonder who Rick Warren is. He’s the Jesus peddling owner of a McMegaChurh. a...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette The dictate that one ‘not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private...
View Article‘There Are Now States Where It’s Not Safe to Be a Woman’
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/173707/there-are-now-states-where-its-not-safe-be-woman Katrina vanden Heuvel April 8, 2013 Chalk another one up for the extremists. Three weeks after...
View ArticleDetroit Catholic leaders suggest self-excommunication for same sex marriage...
I did it over fifty years ago and found freedom from superstition and lies. From Raw Story:...
View ArticleStop-and-terrorize
From Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/08/stop-and-terrorize Wesley House and Gary Lapon April 8, 2013 THE NEW York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” policy is nothing less than...
View ArticleConservatives Outraged By MSNBC Mom Talking to Daughter About Gay Marriage
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/media/2013/04/06/conservatives-outraged-msnbc-mom-talking-daughter-about-gay-marriage One commentator described this conversation between a mother...
View ArticleGLAD Files Complaint on Behalf of MA Transgender Woman Denied Access at...
From Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders: http://www.glad.org/current/item/glad-files-complaint-on-behalf-of-ma-transgender-woman-denied-access-at-hom April 4, 2013 In a case highlighting both...
View ArticleHouse GOPer: No funding for sex-changes because “I like being a boy”
Hey I don’t like having to pay for the Department of Homeland Security, the Prison Industrial Complex, the War on Drugs or tax cuts for billionaires but I’m tough and suck it up. Maybe Georgia Rep....
View ArticleLGBT community remembers Margaret Thatcher for anti-gay law, Section 28
From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/lgbt-community-remembers-margaret-thatcher-for-anti-gay-law-section-28/ KEN WILLIAMS Monday, April 8, 2013 LONDON – Amid all the accolades and...
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