September 2009

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Alan Grayson – My New Personal Hero

Alan Grayson has not always been as calm and reasonable as he was doing battle for our health care these past two days. Matt Taibbi has a great story about the time Grayson “went werewolf” on him, illustrating very clearly just how much he’s holding back when he goes after these Federal Reserve weasels.  Here’s [...]

Who ARE These People?

Having read Frank Schaeffer’s analysis, and the Political Carnival’s excellent summary, I think both are absolutely spot on, and am a little concerned with some of the commenters, who felt this point of view was unnecessarily extreme. It is always good to approach any kind of alarmist analysis/opinion with a healthy dose of skepticism, but, [...]

A Letter to a Middle School Principal

I don’t know that I’ll send this letter to school with my kiddo tomorrow – don’t really want risk negative attention from the people teaching my kid, and (more importantly) while writing this, I started to think that the ‘forbidden’ aspects of this speech will probably do more good towards getting kids to pay attention. [...]

note: you will either want to turn yoru speakers up, or down. me? i turn them up.

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