Wednesday, September 19, 2012
If you’re a Romney supporter, you’re probably wishing for your candidate to come down with a case of laryngitis that lasts through Election Day. He’ll recover just in time to deliver his concession speech. What do we have for a consolation prize, Johnny? Oh, that’s right… nothing!
First was his World Embarrassment Tour where he managed to insult three countries in record time, exceeding the previous record set by Adolf Hitler in 1939. Then there was the convention, where he was stood up by a senile old man who made his name in cheap spaghetti westerns talking to his imaginary friend. Then there were his totally inappropriate comments when the Islamic world went postal over …
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
While we really have more important things to worry about, the issue of reproductive rights – which we thought had been settled almost four decades ago – is a spectre hanging over this election, as a male-dominated movement seeks to subjugate women to the role of “baby factories” by making it illegal to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, even in the case of rape, incest and life/health risk to the mother. Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” aside, there’s one voice we haven’t heard in this discourse: the voice of the unwanted, unborn child.
So I will be that voice.
No, I am not a product of rape or incest. I fit into the third category: a …
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Dorothy: “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
The Scarecrow: “I wouldn’t know. But then, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
— The Wizard of OzMGM, 1939
Combing the Internet for inane things Michele Bachmann has said – and there is certainly no dearth of them – I came across what I believe may be the most truthful statement ever to issue forth from her lips:
“I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.”
Bachmann – who has already demonstrated her lack of …
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