After all this anti government ranting I want to point out that this isn’t an anti police blog but an anti fascism blog, there is a big difference. Good police enforcing good laws are an asset to our communities
Right now I want to point out some awesome police officers in Cincinnati .
Let me […]
On Common Dreams.
This is wonderful news! While it won’t stop torture at least many California physicians and psychologists will now think twice about being a part of such atrocities.
My hats off to the legislature.
I think it the Talmud said it best “He who saves a life saves the world.”
This story was just 10 kind of awesome so I just needed to post it. It may have been on Digg or Reddit first. I just don’t care. In short A UK Doctor builds a dialysis […]
For showing the good sense to introduce a marijuana legalization bill. .
Its doesn’t go quite far enough but its a start. Hopefully we will get some common sense real soon now.
Its not too often that I get to put the Colombian Army down as Good Guys but the action that freed Ingrid Betancourt and the others, including three Americans was some fine work. Kudos to all involved.
You can read the whole story on the BBC News.
Great Editorial at the N.Y. Times by Bob Herbert.
I won’t spoil it for you but he makes two really great points than I can help but agree with.
I think of the people running this country as the mad-dashers, a largely confused and inconsistent group lurching ineffectively from one enormous problem to another.
— […]
Despite Moon’s flirtations with vegetarianism and my dedicated carnivorousness there are some things we can agree on in the food world.
One of them is stopping farm animal cruelty.
The Humane Society of California is working on a ballot initiative to (in their words)
Californians for Humane Farms—sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Farm […]
From Missouri of all places.
Missouri, a place where teen offenders are viewed not just as inmates but as works in progress — where troubled kids are rehabilitated in small, homelike settings that stress group therapy and personal development over isolation and punishment.
In other words. Healing and Restoration and Mercy.
America, the prison nation needs […]
I had get some things done at the California DMV.
I just wanted to say that as much as I rail against government stupidity there wasn’t a lick of that today.
The service was quick ,efficient ,polite and went without a hitch. This is so foreign to my usual experience with government I was quite shocked.
The […]
From Dodd’s own page
Senator Dodd issued the following statement in response to Senator Reid pulling the Intel Committee bill from consideration until the new year:
“Today we have scored a victory for American civil liberties and sent a message to President Bush that we will not tolerate his abuse of power and […]