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November 2007 - an affront to Christians

this is what i am: an affront against christians…or at least their god.
so the good news is the house of reps voted to protect workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. the bad news is they did not include sexual identification, thereby excluding transgendered folks from the same protections.
now the senate gets a [...]

October 2007 - us meaness

why are the people of the u.s. so mean to each other?
we have this reputation as being a very generous people, yet we balk at providing any kind of social safety net or national health care system. they say you can best judge a people by how well they care for the least well-off among [...]

October 2007 - just in time for the new year

…and here’s some spooky stuff from the news…
First, according to the Feminist Majority newswire, the National Right to Life Committee is officially opposed to SCHIP - or State Children’s Health Insurance Program - the lovely legislation that is just 13 votes shy of overriding the president’s veto. It’s fascinating to me that 1) the president [...]

September 2007 - it’s thursday already

on my way to work this morning i had the distinct misfortune to be biking behind a minivan with the ‘abortion stops a beating heart’ bumper sticker.
naturally, i got a little miffed.
but as i followed this minivan over several blocks (lots of stop signs), i started to think about why that bumper sticker makes me [...]

August 2007 - a HA moment!

I had a major revelation about a week ago…my girlfriend and I were discussing the haters who showed up at PRIDE (see previous post) and I realized that no dialog is possible with these people because of their pernicious belief in only ONE TRUE GOD.
Long ago I came to the conclusion that the catholic religion [...]