Curb your enthusiasm

It looks like DADT will finally be repealed. It was a bad law, a compromise to prevent something worse. I’ll remain skeptical until it is dead and buried and gays and lesbians are serving openly in our military. But lets not get too excited. When Truman desegregated the military it didn’t end segregation in the [...]

Successful Holiday Parties

Ok, sports fans, you’ve been sitting at your keyboard for far too long.  Admit it.  I know what you’re thinking.  ”Just one more page and I’ll get up and put the laundry away.” or “I just have to finish watching this 12th version of Giselle’s solo from Act I and I’ll clean the bathroom.  Ooo, [...]

Sunday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! The big news yesterday was the Senate passing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT): In a landmark vote that for some echoed the nation’s greatest civil rights struggles, the Senate on Saturday moved resolutely to abolish the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which for 17 years has forced gay [...]

Who are we killing and why?

While Left Blogistan is getting their collective panties in a wad over the thought of poor Julian Assange facing rape charges in a Swedish court of law, our government is busy killing people: ‘Unprecedented’ Drone Assault: 58 Strikes in 102 Days It may take years, but some researcher will travel to Pakistan’s tribal areas and [...]

Military confinement is no picnic

Glenn Greenwald thinks Bradley Manning is being abused: Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months — and for two [...]

The Democratic Party’s two halves: Is Detente Possible?

Ok, here’s my attempt.  Be gentle.  It’s my first time. From Stirling Newberry’s blog post “The Truth, an Open Letter on why this American and This Left are Doomed” at Corrente: A country is doomed when its opposition is so corrupt that it cannot be trusted to oppose. Let me name some names. Let’s start [...]

Anti-establishment hero or rapist?

The Guardian has more information on the allegations against Julian Assange: The allegations centre on a 10-day period after Assange flew into Stockholm on Wednesday 11 August. One of the women, named in court as Miss A, told police that she had arranged Assange’s trip to Sweden, and let him stay in her flat because [...]

Uppity Woman keeps it real

(Fredster wrote it) This is an open thread

Friday Folderol

Let’s start off with some Joseph Cannon at his tinfoily best: The parts left out of the Abramoff movie — or: Of Jack and Barack (Part 1) Here is a fact reported by Associated Press writer Vickie Chachere on September 26, 2001 — not long after the attack on the World Trade Center. Although the [...]

Afternoon funnies open thread

Watch the video and you’ll laugh (unless you are a humor-challenged Obot) Seen or heard anything else funny lately? Please share, we could all use more laughs.