2016 Will Be About Abortion

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Tuesday July 21, 2015 · 8:51 PM PDT

2015/07/21 · 20:51

Alright, fellas, listen up. I have no idea why I'm writing this, really. I got bigger fish to fry. I got a dog with either advanced dysplasia or DM. I gotta pitbull puppy I never asked for trying to eat my cats' food. And my feet, actually, even as I type this. I got a contract recertification survey for our 1915c Medicaid waiver program breathing down my neck. But I was listening to the latest wild and outlandish conspiracy theories on American Family Radio this morning and it hit me. 2016 will be about abortion.

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Monday May 25, 2015 · 10:15 PM PDT

2015/05/25 · 22:15

I realize you could see my title and fear that I was after some trollish end, but such is not the case, I'm afraid. Intentionally inflammatory language aside, this diary and its comments poses an interesting question for me.

On the one hand, after many years, I've thrown off much of my decidedly Confederate upbringing. On the other hand, I don't see very much difference between the soldiers of the CSA and the soldiers of the USA, except the CSA soldiers were greater dupes.

If it does not bother anybody, I'm going to work out my personal feelings here. Perhaps someone else may gain some insight from them. (Or perhaps I flatter myself.) I'm not going to address the merits or flaws of the Confederate monument referenced in the original article. I know little about it, and I have no problem with ignoring or removing any monument dedicated solely to the Confederacy and not to the soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The Confederacy was a construct of men, and its passing is no more a thing to be mourned than the end of a book.

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Tuesday May 19, 2015 · 6:34 AM PDT

2015/05/19 · 06:34

Kerby Anderson, smooth-talking and slightly smarmy Ultra-Conservative radio host of Point of View, appears to have noticed that police have been a little bit less Andy Griffith lately, and a little bit more Terminator.

On Monday's episode (it's halfway through, so you'll just have to skip forward...or listen to an hour of Kerby, your choice), he talks to John Whitehead's book Battlefield America. I was a little shocked to hear the discussion on the morning's dose of right-wing talk today (it's an AM station so it's a little slow). The only thing that bothers me is that I don't know the cause. Have the cops finally beaten down enough white folks that even the conservatives are starting to notice? Or is it that the crazy that's infected the conservatives since they got a black feller in their White House finally driven them to attack their own? Only time will tell.

Sorry, nothing below the cheeto.

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Saturday May 09, 2015 · 7:35 PM PDT

2015/05/09 · 19:35

The recent shooting at the awful Pamela Gellar's Drawing Mohammed "contest"--a deliberately inflammatory event if ever there was one--seems to have elicited a certain amount of debate regarding the issues in the title. Given the debate, I finally felt compelled to weigh in. If you're paying attention, then you know I don't blog much. It's a regrettable side-effect of having far too many hobbies for one's peace of mind, I'm afraid. So the fact that I felt it necessary to write this when I definitely should be cleaning the house should say something.

Gellar is reprehensible. Possessed by the burrowing mind-worm of the ultra-conservative dogma dominating a certain sector of society, she's either a con-man, like so many of them, or a true believer. If the latter, then I guarantee that she's guilty of an almost pathological fear of chaos. Carrying an innately authoritarian personality, she'd have a not-so-secret desire to be told exactly what to do, coupled with a perfect willingness to tell others what to do. Her faction would very much love to take away certain basic freedoms from the US citizen, including but not limited to the freedom to be Muslim, to worship as we please or not at all, to pursue knowledge unfettered by censorship, to seek one's own wisdom in true Gnostic or even agnostic fashion, to do with one's body as one pleases, to be healthy and secure. There is nothing I've heard about her or any of her ilk that makes me want to offer them respect that isn't outweighed by a hundred things that make me wish to withold it.

You can imagine my quandary when I find myself agreeing with them.

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Friday July 25, 2014 · 10:02 AM PDT

2014/07/25 · 10:02

This article contains something I haven't heard from a politician in decades.

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Wednesday May 28, 2014 · 6:55 PM PDT

2014/05/28 · 18:55

Oh my god, how do I insert a link? Pretend these HTML tags are links:

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Hey, look, they are! I love this site!

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