EEEEwwwwww… Girls Writing Books!

COOTIES! We’ll get them! Sarah Palin has landed herself a book deal with Harper Collins. Wait a minute… she can read? The AP was incredulous! Palin has never written a book and her critics, noting her disjointed CBS interviews with Katie Couric, have questioned whether she could. Two years ago, Palin told PBS’ Charlie Rose [...]

Obama’s Oedipus complex

Liberal Rapture’s “Yes, Andrew, Obama does want you to go away” inspired me to create this analysis, some of which has been steeping for a while. Obama’s thralls are a manifestation of a group Oedipal event, in the archaic sense, not the Freudian.  They sought a saviour.  {I describe them as thralls because they were [...]

Afrocity Stitch n’ Bitch:Mending the Difficult Threads Of An American Quilt

Cross posted at: Autographed Letter Signed (Afrocity) Afrocity is angry. The politics of memory is much like a loaded gun. Legacy, accolades, tributes, multi-million dollar book deals, memorials are all things bestowed upon those who bear the title COMMANDER IN CHIEF. I understand that. However, I will not owe my success as a woman- a [...]

Patenting Parts of People

The ACLU just started a lawsuit saying that patents of human genes are invalid. Specifically, it’s about two breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and 2, but the implications extend to the principle of the thing. And it’s about bloody time. To understand the merits of the case, consider two parallel situations. a) Someone removed a strip [...]

The Final Straw? Don’t bet on it

From The NYT: President Obama said Wednesday that he would fight to prevent the release of photographs documenting abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan by United States military personnel, reversing his position on the issue after commanders warned that the images could set off a deadly backlash against American troops. The sippy-kup kidz must [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Sigh! Obama punts. Again. It is bad enough that on yet another issue, Obama has dropped the ball and poked those who voted for him in the eye. Worst of all he is not only adopting the Bush-Cheney policies, he is also using their talking points. Obama reverses course on alleged prison abuse photos President [...]

Not Another Miss California Post

With all the important pageant news lately you may have missed this story from last week: The D.C. Council overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, in a vote that followed a sharp exchange between an openly gay member and a civil rights champion and set off shouts of reproach from [...]

Australian Virus Researcher Says Swine Flu May have Escaped from a Lab

Bloomberg is reporting that The World Health Organization (WHO) is examining a study of the swine flu virus by Adrian Gibbs, a respected researcher whose work contributed to the development of the flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, [...]

A Single Payer advocate on MSNBC: Ed Schultz

Today’s regularly scheduled post has been replaced by this astonishing segment from Ed Schultz on MSNBC: Ed Schultz show (I’d love to know why vodpod can’t post videos if the source is MSNBC) I’ve been feeling discouraged about how the single-payer option has been not just taken off the table but has been erased from [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Iraq War: The Sequel Soldier rampage hints at stress of repeated deployments Military police on Tuesday charged Sgt. John Russell, a soldier on a 15-month tour to Iraq – his third deployment to the country – with murder in the shooting deaths of five soldiers at an American base. Details about Sergeant Russell are beginning [...]