Blog for Democracy

Month: September 2009

  • Well, this is embarrassing

    Republican activists have been trying for years to take down ACORN, and it’s not difficult to figure out why. The community service organization has been effective in registering blacks, Latinos and persons from low-income areas to vote — the kinds of people who are more likely to vote for Democrats. ACORN’s emphasis on helping folks…

  • Lemons, Meet Lemonade

    Kids, pay attention, this is how you deal with hate mail.

  • Finally, some sanity

    We should all give thanks to U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land of Columbus for showing that there are still a few sane people left in the United States.

  • Big Questions Still Linger In Atlanta Police Raid of Gay Bar

    My friend Jeff Graham over at Georgia Equality sent out two major press releases yesterday asking questions of the Mayor and City Council about the Atlanta Police raid of the Eagle last Thursday. While some of the questions are more, erm, operational in nature, I wanted to take some time to point out a couple…

  • No polite euphemisms for these people

    It’s a familiar complaint that the political dialogue in this country has become much coarser and less civil in recent years, a complaint that certainly has some validity. On the other hand, with politicians feeling less restrained about what they can say in public these days, we also have a situation where we are hearing…

  • NFDC’s Macbeth

    “NFDC closes their 2009 season with a decidedly different take on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This Scotland feels like Louisiana in the 1930s. Its inhabitants conspire and carry-on with the occasional Southern drawl, their movements directed by revenge or dictated by voodoo. All these pieces fall into place to a rhythm born of the early blues.…