Best wishes, Chelsea and Marc!

It sounds like the town of Rhinebeck had a great time too! So despite confidentiality agreements, anonymous hotel reservations and a no-fly zone established over the area, this moneyed and normally subdued town turned into a Chelsea theme park, with shop windows filled with tributes to her, including one with a live model in a [...]

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Losing ground

This morning’s New York Times: Afghan Women Fear Loss of Modest Gains Women’s advocates are concerned that they are increasingly being shut out of political decisions. At an international conference in Kabul on July 20, which was meant to showcase the country’s plans for the future, President Hamid Karzai said nothing about how women’s rights [...]

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Cultural change at the barrel of a gun?

Peter Daou’s heart is in the right place when he tweets: Negative reaction from (male) liberal peers when I suggest oppression, rape & slaughter of women/girls might justify military intervention And: Keep getting asked if we should also consider intervention to save raped and ravaged women/girls in Congo and elsewhere. Answer: of course. I understand [...]

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Ugh

Sometimes I think, why do I even bother? No one seems to be able to do anything about it. It’s not as though we don’t care. It’s just that the behemoth is unstoppable. Short of revolution, how do we turn this around? Glenn Greenwald: So there’s your Week in Change:  tens of billions more appropriated for [...]

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So, it’s not her job to create jobs, but shouldn’t she at least know what legislation has passed and what hasn’t?

And if you can figure out this word fog you’re better than me.  The question was straightfoward: “What do you think about campaign finance regulations?” Angle: Well I think that the Supreme Court has really made their decision on this, they found that we have a First Amendment right across the board that was violated [...]

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Ten men and Satan

The daughter you loved even before she was born.  When she was an abstraction, a positive sign on a pregnancy test, before she kicked you in the ribs, long before she ever drew her first breath. Love you did not know you were capable of feeling, primal and angry and powerful, you would kill ten [...]

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The easiest solution

It seems to me the easiest solution would be for everyone to pray in their offices or cars before they got to the meeting. I go to business meetings all the time at work, and we never pray before those. I also participate in non-profit meetings outside of work and we never pray before those either, [...]

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Gitmo – “a bid to impose collective amnesia”

I go to Guantanamo to write about a place the government intentionally chose to be outside the rule of law. The Supreme Court decided otherwise. It’s a place the Pentagon likes to call the most transparent detention center on Earth. Hundreds of reporters have visited there, they say, since the first al Qaida suspects arrived [...]

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Somerby: The Triumph of the Dumbest Idea

A must read: Republican pols almost never voice this idea—they leave that to hacks like Sean Hannity. Presumably, Kyl’s blunder explains why McConnell did voice the dumbest idea in the world. But it doesn’t answer Paul Krugman’s question: How can this dumbest idea survive, as it has for the past thirty years? Why can’t we [...]

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Justice

At last.

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