Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve urged here frequently that readers should support the nominee, whoever the nominee is, but frankly, truthfully, the backlash that is brewing is a little hard to ignore.
The thing is, as Joan Walsh pointed out tonight on Hardball (see video in post below) “Bill Clinton is our only 2 term Democrat” in the White House in [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Le Monde , this is a common topic for sociologists and for right-wing hacks. For the latter, poor boys, they whine, are doing worse in schools because their masculine nature (biologically encoded) are repressed by the feminized liberal teachers. Schools (especially public schools, of course) have been perverted by [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Bill Clinton said Sunday, “I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running..” Well, just when you thought the Clinton bashing couldn’t go any lower… Joan Walsh explains (emphasis mine) on Salon:
The world is divided between people who consider Bill and Hillary Clinton monsters, and people who don’t. It used to be [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Here in California we have a proposition coming up on the ballot next Tuesday that must be defeated – Prop 98:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqANQQQno3g
Here’s more on the deceptive that proposition that will hurt folks like me, long time renters in rent control buildings:
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Alegre
It’s a simple question for you - the members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, who’ll be deciding on the future of our party on Saturday.
Folks are talking about the tough decision you’ll have to make in DC on Saturday.
They say you might seat half the delegates from Florida and Michigan, thereby cutting the [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
At this rate, I might actually be able to make a dent in my “to-read” ever increasing pile of books, which would be a nice side effect of this sorry state of affairs. This time, it’s David Brin (sorry, no link for that stuff), one of my favorite science-fiction writers. [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I got this in my inbox earlier today… I’m busy, busy… But, I think this video speaks for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyqWydgLz0
The Caucus has more on the protests planned for the upcoming rules committee meeting.
UPDATE: I highly recommend reading “Caucuses vs. Primaries : A Report” at TalkLeft.
UPDATE 2: Read Alegre’s post: So - Who’ll Be Next?
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
The most tragic part of this is that most of these deaths could be avoided, without too much trouble, as Kira Cochrane argues in the - ugh - …Life and Style section of the Guardian :
“The story of Yeruknesh Mesfin’s death starts on the day of her birth, in an [...]
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