Why It Will Never End (Part 1)

Sarah Palin is not qualified to be the President of the United States. She is dreadfully inexperienced. She is a Fundie. That alone is normally a disqualify, but let’s continue. When it comes to women’s reproductive freedoms and choices, she disappoints. Her energy policies are mediocre at best, and her obsession with drilling in ANWR [...]

That was us

Over at Hullaballoo Digby writes:
last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a nice little rundown on all the cases where the Obama administration’s promises of “transparency” and adherence to constitutional norms have turned out to be shall we say, a bit opaque.
There were those who saw the writing on the wall on [...]

Failbot Pretzel Logic

(This started in the comments of Dakinikat’s morning post but I think it deserves front page attention.)
If you want to see some EPIC FAIL check out this post by John Cole. Responding to a WaPo report that Obama is considering issuing an executive order that would “reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely” Cole [...]

The Zombie Tribe

What’s so hard about condemning sexism and misogyny?  Does it really matter who the victim is?  John Cole gets it:
You know, I have no idea what the hell David Letterman is thinking or what he thinks he is accomplishing with crap like this, but this was inexcusable. He should be ashamed of himself.
And I’m [...]

One Person One Vote Died a Year Ago today

In an important landmark case Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), the Supreme Court established one of the most significant voting rights rulings impacting our Republic since the enfranchisement of woman and the election of U.S. senators by popular vote. Both of these occurred earlier in the century.  Basically, Reynolds v Sims established the [...]

Puma Mission Statement Planning

(I’m posting this for Jangles since we’re having trouble with her sign on as an author!!  Please welcome her and thank her for all the hard work in taking our PUMA planning to the next step.)
WHO ARE WE?
By jangles
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you [...]

Afrocity Says…Lets Hang up the Chick Habit and Riot Grrls!!!!

I try not to show it much but being recognized as a PUMA is very important to me.
I imagine myself standing in a room filled with PUMA women of all ages, colors and backgrounds. We are a circle of sisters who will not be treated like shit. A moral and intellectual force and we have [...]

Saturday: Forest and trees and The Marshall Plan

Yesterday, I was listening to Stuff You Missed in History Class and the topic du jour was The Marshall Plan.  As I might have mentioned before, my knowledge of history is non-linear as a consequence of having moved 14 times before I graduated high school.  So, I listen to podcasts like this to catch up [...]

PUMA Planning: Narrowing the Focus

I’ve spent some time trying to synthesize some major points out of the over 600 posts to our PUMA Planning Thread.  I’d like to try to get every one to focus more on these issues and rank them from most important to least important so we can focus more on each [...]

PUMA Brainstorming (Continued)

So, please offer up what you think we should focus on, what you think our purpose should be, and if you would like us to continue to be a very loose coalition of groups and interests or a more organized and formal movement.
I’ve only got a few ground rules to lay.
The first is be civil.  [...]