So, turns out that Sarah Palin isn't really going away after all.
So, turns out that Sarah Palin isn't really going away after all.
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It doesn’t really surprise me to learn that Gov. Mark
Sanford’s lost weekend involved “another woman.” After all, what better way to derail talk of another run at
the presidency in 2012 than a good old-fashioned affair involving international
travel? Yeah, he was a candidate in 2008, remember? Part of his platform was
his position on civil unions; he was (and may still be) big on defining
marriage as being between one man and one woman. And he voted yes on the bill
seeking to ban adoption by gay couples and other individuals not related by
blood or marriage in the District of Columbia .
Clearly, Gov. Sanford is a man who holds family values dear. That’s why he took off for a romantic tryst with a woman who is not his wife on Father’s Day weekend.
Gotta love the Republicans.
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I spend a great deal of time enmeshed in my own little
world, grappling with my memories, working on making what I hope is “art” out
of personal experience. Perhaps, then, it’s not surprising that I a) fall off
the face of the Earth from time to time (sorry, Kim) and b) tend to lose sight
of what’s going on in the world.
Fortunately, there are other writers who keep an ear to the ground, have an eye on world events and maintain an awareness of the ways things that happen on the other side of the globe may affect people like me (and vice versa).
Since I’m in a crunch period, I thought I’d offer up a link to an interview with Iranian-American journalist Roya Hakakian, that provides a glimpse into the role feminism is playing in Iran during that country’s time of upheaval. Read and learn, as I did, my friends.
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"Sotomayor believes in race bait justice. ... Her entire career is based on advancing people of color, which happens at the expense of white folks. ... She will decide differently for the white male. ... White working class folks are the ones discriminated against most today. ...What's happening now, to white men right now, is exactly what was done to black folks for years. ...What we got is Jim Crow liberalism ... hostility and bigotry toward white males in America."
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So, Dick Cheney is on the record supporting gay marriage, sort of. In a speech at the National Press Club, he said, "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish."
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Controversy is, apparently, a-brewin’. I know because Diane Sawyer told me so in her commentary regarding the report that 66-year-old Elizabeth Munro of the UK is going to become a mother for the first time in the next few weeks.
This controversy may pale in comparison to the recent furor over Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s decision to have twins via a surrogate. And this is hardly Octomom territory. Yet in all of these cases I find myself wondering, “Why is this anyone’s business?”
Oh, wait, here’s the answer, according to an article on the Mirror’s webpage:
“Last night, Christian pro-life lobby group Comment on Reproductive Ethics said: ‘We have to think about the child being born to a mother of 66 and consider whether or not this is the best thing. Nature dictates that it isn’t.’”
It’s against Nature, as are all things made possible by scientific breakthroughs—like the smallpox vaccine and chemotherapy and human beings flying off into space.
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Some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted anything in a while. That is, I hope some of you noticed....
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So, today marks the 100th day that Barack Obama
has been President of the United States of America—and what a one-hundred days
it has been.
Let’s review, shall we?
• $789 billion stimulus bill
• A budget plan that is being fine-tuned (or beaten into
submission, depending on who you listen to)
• Interventions in the housing and credit markets
• Taking the heads of the auto companies out behind the
woodshed for “a little talk”
• Some new rules set out for Wall Street (though the boys downtown
aren’t quite under control yet)
• A revamping of foreign policy
• International travel
Oh, and there’s probably been some dog training going on.
In those same 100 days here’s what I’ve managed to do: not
much. Oh, a few loads of laundry, a trip or 50 to the grocery store, a little
writing—sure. I even made the bed once or twice. But when I compare my
productivity to that of the Commander in Chief, I feel a little…chagrined.
Chastened, even.
I don’t think I ought to feel as bad as a couple of other
people.
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