You know, in the old days, in epics like the Three Kingdoms, leaders went out to battle against each other fielding armies of thousands. They sat on horses in front of all their other troops, flouting themselves as first targets with banners and shields and signs. They took pride in being able to kick the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
A call for civil leadership
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election, politics on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Goodbye, friend…
Posted in politics, tagged arkansas, murder, politics on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t know him that well, but I did know him and his family. Went to the same church with him a few times as a kid. He did a lot of good with the money he earned. Harold Gwatney was shot in his office today in Little Rock, where he was chair of the [...]
Obama as the Antichrist. Why we shouldn’t be surprised
Posted in politics, tagged antichrist, demonization, mccain, obama, politics, rhetoric on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the idea marketing Obama as the Antichrist is taking hold. The majority of people on Obama’s side whom I’ve read have expressed puzzlement at this, but I wasn’t surprised at all. In 2000, I attended a church service with my now ex-wife at the church she’d grown up in. It’s a town of about [...]
Geek Feminism
Posted in feminism, geekery, tagged feminism, geek girls, geekery, geeks, politics, technology, women in science on July 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hey folks, this site’s just now taking off. It’s a wiki/social network for feminism in technology, science, science fiction, and the general geeky community. It’s still scant on information and the articles are short, but people are out there trying. Geek girls, Geek allies, unite and contribute!
North Carolina Governor’s School under attack by Arizonan special interest group
Posted in politics, tagged education, frivolous lawsuits, governors schools, lawsuits, lgbt, politics, sex education, states rights on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now the Triangle Independent is not the most reliable journalistic source in the world, nor the least biased, and as often as I agree with the sentiments expressed in the paper, I generally check their sources when citing an article of theirs. Source check done, and this sucks. The North Carolina Governor’s School has been [...]
Parliament, Heinz, Mayonnaise and Gay Men
Posted in politics, relationships, tagged gay rights, lgbt, media, politics, relationships, same-sex on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A headline like that just begs for a writeup by the Eclectic Hedonist. The story is that Heinz in Britain pulled an ad for mayonnaise showing two men kissing after hundreds of people complained. Now, if the story had ended there with much consternation from Fox News, Focus on the Family, ABC, NBC, CBS, and [...]
The value of the dollar in the face of superficiality
Posted in politics, tagged business, dollar, politics on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FedEx-Kinko’s will spend $981,000,000 to change their copy division’s name from FedEx-Kinko’s to FedEx Office. First of all, I can’t imagine how they managed to justify this to shareholders given the cost. They can’t possibly believe the word “Office” after their name will save untold sums and make money for them hand over fist in [...]
Misogyny I will not miss
Posted in feminism, politics, tagged clinton, election, feminism, hillary, misogyny, politics on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Girl With Pen points out an article that I have to take to heart. I don’t watch TV at all, so I missed the commercials, and I missed the TV news spots given to “amusing” campaign related products slamming Hillary Clinton for nothing more than the fact that she’s a woman who wants to be [...]
