Double Reading

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 says:

It’s [...]

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 talking [...]

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 government [...]

I hate that I am linking to FOX News, but the fact that they are reporting that Jon Benet’s Dad and  Natalee Holloway’s Mom Are Dating makes it worthwhile. I mean, really… this is just too bizarre.
For what it’s worth, I’m still “boycotting Aruba.”

I want to say that I hate to admit this, but I’m not sure that I do hate to admit it. Let’s say I have mixed feelings about the outcome of the “Duke Lacrosse Rape Case:” the North Carolina attorney general dropped all charges and so the men involved are all innocent in the eyes [...]

During Easter Mass, the Pope made some comments about Iraq such as

Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees

Being that he is the Pope, I think it’s safe to assume he’s speaking the word of God or something like that, right? Isn’t the Pope basically God’s representation on [...]

I love how sometimes the media picks up on a certain phrase/adjective and uses it absolutely everytime something is mentioned.
For example, if I had a dollar everytime the phrase “disgraced lobbyist” was placed before Jack Abramoff’s name, I would have somewhere around $1400 (I’m currently getting 1,415 results).
By contrast, there are only 1,384 news articles [...]

I love the fact that the UK had been investigating this now-foiled terrorism plot for the last few weeks and that the US got involved within the last ten days… sounds like a perfect time for Bush to go on vacation, eh? It’s one thing to say that he happened to be on vacation today [...]