Double Reading

During the rescue of the Chilean miners, I heard/read lots of people saying that they were praying for the miners. And once all 33 of the miners were rescued, people said, “Thank God!” followed by: “It’s a miracle that they made it out.” The president of Chile even said: What started as a tragedy is [...]

Like everything nowadays, I have mixed feelings about the buzzy news story about fire fighters letting a house burn to the ground. Judging by the headline, “Firefighters watch as home burns to the ground” the story/situation seems really fucked up and upsetting… but then you read more and find out that the people who owned [...]

According to The Daily Show… .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png’) !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;} The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c MSNBC Replaces Fox News Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video Oh well — I guess I’m glad to say I support it…

I’m glad to see a few places (Defamer via The Stranger) noting how “gay” last week’s Saturday Night Live was. And by “gay” I don’t mean the great, awesome, queer-type way. There were four gay-themed sketches: A family where everyone kisses each other — and at the end two of the guy cast members had [...]

I’m proud to say that Dan Savage is a Seattle-ite and editor of our weekly paper (The Stranger). I love how he gets Colbert to laugh!!

What value is there in having a political debate and limiting responses to 30 seconds? I’d rather have candidates talk about one or two issues and talk for five minutes and really explain their thoughts than feel pressured to fit everything into 30 seconds (which moderators seem to selectively enforce anyway…).

After all the discussion about being gay in Iran following Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment about there being no gay people in Iran, I found this Newsweek interview with a gay Iranian (who left Iran for the U.S.) interesting and thought it was worth sharing. One part of the interview especially struck me. The man [...]

If Iraq was a school in the United States and failed on eight out of eighteen benchmarks that the Bush administration set for it, the school would lose it’s funding and be shut down, right? Why not with Iraq?

The thing about being privileged (be it by being white, straight, male, etc.) is that if someone ever calls you a name or treats you what you perceive to be unfair or differently, you never have to think twice about whether it’s because you’re somehow “different” than most people. This morning on The Commentators, they were [...]

Fact of the day: Bill Breeden was the only person arrested for anything having to do with the Iran-Contra Affair. Who is Bill Breeden? He’s from John Poindexter‘s home town and held a sign for a street named in Poindexter’s honor for “ransom.” He was arrested and jailed for this. None of the military or [...]