I was challenged in comments on a friend’s Facebook wall yesterday “provide us with a specific example of Tea Party hate ful (sic) speach and some thing good that President Obama has done for our country.” The commenters there also…
WTF? Georgia Senate Threatens to Secede!
Georgia Senate threatens dismantling of USA They really did, by a vote of 43–1. On April 1, but it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. The resolution goes on to endorse the theory that states have the right to abridge constitutional freedoms…
Rant at Fibrant Living
If you have fibromyalgia, or care about anyone who does, please read and respond.
Weight Discrimination As Prevalent as Racial Discrimination
I was going to ask, “This is news to whom?” Then I realized that it’s perfectly likely that people who aren’t fat really don’t realize how much size discrimination there is, while it’s impossible for the rest of us to…
Baptist Church Votes Not to Accept Black Members
By way of Rebecca Blood’s blog, more bad news on the civil rights front. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Fellowship Baptist Church in Saltillo voted on August 6 not to accept black members. In doing so, they rescinded…
Bus driver orders black children to give up seats to white children
I feel like I’m stuck in a time warp. How could this happen in 2006? From the Shreveport Times, dated August 24, 2006: COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the…