[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Cohen, After A Night Of Sleep
- To write an opinion column does not mean checking out what interesting lint you might have in your belly button. Opinions totally unsupported by any study are not worth paying for and they smell bad, too. [...] To write an opinion column does not mean that you can leave all logic at home.
- Our Lesson This Week, Demand Respect Settle For Nothing Less by Anthony McCarthy (tl;dr)
- …I’ve learned one important thing about dealing with the Obama administration. You don’t get any respect from them unless you force them to give it.
You have to slander, lie about, vilify, betray, flim flam, campaign against and go back on agreements you have made with the Obama people to even get them to pay attention to you. If you do what Liberman has done they will reward you. [...]
At this point it’s far from clear exactly what Barack Obama’s intention is, though the image as a cagey chess master seems to have been just advertising. If this is the best that he’s able to do with a majority in the House and Senate, he’s an amateur.
- The People Don’t Know The Truth So It Can’t Make Them Free by Anthony McCarthy (tl;dr)
- In listening to the endless discussions on the radio and TV about the progress of health care legislation this year, it came to me that not a single guest or anchor or host was without insurance. [...] A real public option has been favored by a higher percentage of people than any president has ever won an election with.
- Army Gets Tough on Pregnancy
- [Trigger warning for the Shaker post.]
- Paying It Forward
- When the unsuspecting patrons went to pay their check, they were floored to find out that strangers had picked up their tab. So they asked the cashier to let them pay another table's check, also anonymously.
When that table's patrons approached the register, they, too, decided to pay the favor forward for yet another table of unsuspecting strangers.
You know where this is going, right?
- Feel the Homomentum!
- Mexico City assembly legalizes same-sex marriage
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