Author: Ataru Atlanta
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Quote of the day
You can go back to your, what do you call it, your Google, and you figure out all that. George H. W. Bush (from Political Wire)
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Israel plays rough with Cynthia
For once, Cynthia McKinney is the sympathetic character – the AJC reports that she was on a boat full of peace activists (and humanitarian supplies) bound for Gaza that came under attack by the lovable Israeli navy in international waters. (Apparently three Al Jazeera journalists were on the boat as well, so you can imagine…
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Green power, meet boundaries
Ok, I know it’s beyond bizarre to post this bizarre story on Christmas Eve, as NORAD tracks Santa (at this moment, he just visited Ambato, Ecuador), but I’m a bizarre dude. Thus I bring you news of a gross – and illegal – scheme by which a “doctor” in California used fat from liposuctions for…
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Prop 8 stops marriage, not hate
Apparently the warm glow the homophobes of California must have gotten when Prop 8 passed didn’t last too long – a lesbian woman living in the San Franscisco area is reported to have been gang raped by four men. To all our GLBT friends, I hope you are safe and warm somewhere, and please keep…
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Obama’s withdrawal strategy
(I love Tom Toles.)
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Rick Warren to deliver inaugural invocation
The reaching across the aisle continues, as Obama has asked pro-life, pro-Prop 8 evangelical Rick Warren (who put Obama and McCain on the hot seat back in August) to perform his inaugural invocation. Obviously, this has gotten the GLBT community pretty pissed, even more so than Auburn fans after a pitiful coaching move. Pro-choice folks…