a bit of my morning reading list today

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10781.shtml

I am very pro-Palestine.
I shun the faulty logic equating this with anti-semitism, as any rational mind would.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/172290/fcc_to_take_a_stand_on_net_neutrality.html

Thank you, Mr. President, for taking steps to keep another campaign promise. Thank you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/18/children-philosophy-childless

Backed my way into a thusfar childless life, and no, it doesn't suck. It might even be keeping us from going further into debt. *rolls eyes*

This is probably rebutting more disgusting Christian propaganda (gotta get more white people to pump out the babies, dontchaknow?) and the anti-women's rights agenda masquerading as pro-lifers today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/opinion/18brooks.html?_r=2&em

Hey, I don't really agree with him. But he makes his point without pandering to the lowest common denominator, as so many right-wingers are doing lately.

I've been around the world. Not even close to all of it, but enough to know that YES, racism and bigotry come in as many sundry forms as colors in the rainbow.

You see black people saying that cannabis is okay for white people to smoke, but not for black people because it makes them crazy? I've heard that in Africa with my own ears in this millenia.

You hear white-on-white racism in Australia, aimed at those who associate with Aborigines, derogatorily referring to them as "derros" and un-subtle class stratification in the neighborhoods outside Perth? I have witnessed it myself firsthand.

I honestly believe there may very well be racism burbling just under the surface of a highly unstable gun-toting sliver of these teabaggers.

I take umbrage, am personally insulted down to my marrow by their rhetoric, their guns, their anger and their fear.

And I stand up proudly and say that if they take aim at Our President, they are aiming at me,
if they try to tear him down, they are going to have to go through me...

seethe / breathe / seethe

I've been having a little schoolyard scuffle with my conservative cousins. Naturally I'm defending the President, who hasn't had time to do anything worthy of the scorn the last administration deserved.

I can't get my head around it completely. It's like the right-wingers have been paying close scrutinous attention to how exasperated the left has been for the last 8 years. And now they're twisting up the most deservedly-inflammatory rhetoric aimed at Bu$h - but aiming instead at Obama.

Obama hasn't done anything remotely deserving of such bigoted racist sour grapes. But that doesn't stop the right, the fox limbaugh medved hannity beck noise patrol, from starting out their criticisms of Obama as loud or even louder than the left shouted when Bu$h was at his worst.

And will someone please shove a big black dick down Michelle Malkin's throat already?