Political Rants

Jenna Freedman, of LU and the Radical Reference group, sent the link to this great new bag at CafePress.

Rock on.

...is violence. Seems the Brits gunned a guy down the other day cuz he might have been a terrorist. Sound familiar? Seems we've managed to make the Brits ridiculously paranoid and trigger-happy, too. Well done us. I mean, mistakes happen, but there are ways to keep this crap to a minimum.

Of the fast-unfolding developments, the most overwhelming for many Londoners, was the police admission that an apparently innocent man had been gunned down in full public view - a killing that left the city even more rattled after a wave of attacks, alarms, scares and shootings that, in a brief three weeks has propelled London from the euphoria of the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park to a sense of embattled siege.

Today's bombings in London have me rattled. I have friends there (so far, no word), and this map posted on Boing Boing shows, among other things, the areas I haunted (and some friends still do) when I was last there.

I despair for the human race some days.

In another context, we were discussing amusing bumper stickers today. Someone mentioned one I thought very relevant: "Yee-haw is not a foreign policy."

Peace, everybody.

As you already know, I'm sure, Sandra Day O'Connor announced her forthcoming retirement.

And my snarky title above aside, the last thing we need to do is move to Canada. We need, instead, to move our country back to a balance point. And to fight for the basics.

Planned Parenthood has some innovative ideas, for a start.

Anyone taking book on how long it will take for the Dems to cave on judicial nominations for the SC? ::sigh::