Double Reading

… Maybe he’s not so bad as we think? … Maybe he really is a nice guy? … I don’t know. All I know is that I’m feeling very confused right now. I’m not sure exactly how to put this, but after watching the self-reflexively sympathetic Journeys With George, I have been brainwashed/fooled/deceived/whatever into think [...]

My friend from college, Ryan Mello is running for Tacoma Parks Commissioner (position #4). He’s a great guy and I worked with him a lot when he was the ASUPS (our student government) president at my college my sophomore year. Admitedly, I don’t know too much about the Tacoma Parks Board, but I’m sure he’d [...]

Speaking of exploitation, I want to “exploit” the current disaster going on around New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and defer blame not to nature but to President Bush. (Yes, I am serious.) Sidney Blumenthal has a great article on Salon: “‘No one can say they didn’t see it coming’” My favorite quote: In early [...]

As far as I am concerned, life is based on exploitation. Everyone exploits everything, and that just seems to be how things are. The people who complain about that are totally missing the point. I find it extremely disturbing and ironic that while people are attacking Cindy Sheehan for exploiting her child’s death, we have [...]

I was very sad to find out yesterday that MSNBC‘s television show Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan (and this annoying conservative named Monica Crowley) is being canceled. The network is adding Rita Cosby (who used to have a show on FOX News of all places) to the lineup and Reagan is getting bumped. [...]

The story about the guy from Brazil who was shot (8 times!!) and killed in London on Friday is probably one of the most upsetting pieces of news I’ve read in a long time… probably more upsetting than this whole Karl Rove scandal. Thank god we have The Huffington Post‘s “A Death in London” to [...]

What bothers me and worries me most (well, beside the obvious ethical implications) about this Jim West (mayor of Spokane, Washington; made some homophobic remarks; was caught in a pretty intense gay sex scandal [offering jobs to gay men via online chat, hounding those men for dates, etc.]) is that I’m guessing after this all [...]

I want to be the 1,000th blogger to direct everyone to The Huffington Post, the new web site/blog/news site created by Arianna Huffington. She’s totally great. She used to be really conservative and right-wing, then her rich husband came out of the closet and she got tons of money… then she became a super progressive. [...]

My friend Alicia sent me this article by David Brooks (a conservative columnist for the New York Times): “Roe’s Birth, and Death.” Since the article was published on April 21, 2005, it won’t be free to read online for much longer, so allow me to summarize: Brooks argues that because the Roe v. Wade decision [...]