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• Santorum: Fear the guillotine

  Thu Feb 9, 2012
  • Re; Bible version of sex sucking (I'm paraphrasing here - lol): try the Song of Solomon for a fairly different kind of biblical sex... I have friends who as Catholic children of the fifties were given Bibles without that particular book included....

• Santorum: Fear the guillotine

  Thu Feb 9, 2012
  • I need a "great snark" or "lol" button on this blog!

• Santorum: Fear the guillotine

  Thu Feb 9, 2012
  • or rather, white, middle-aged or female! The republican right this season is showing its inherent misogyny. These guys are terrifying in their complacency, stupifying in their ability to ignore reality, and despicable for their incredible hypocrisy.

• Clint Eastwood wins the Super Bowl

  Sun Feb 5, 2012
  • its enough to make me think about buying an American car next time I switch...but my trusty Scion is likely to last longer than me, so I might not need one.

• Monday's campaign round-up

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Wow, I already see why the Maddow staff was so excited to have Steve Benen on board. Great blog posts!

• Ammophila arenaria, happily

  Fri Oct 14, 2011
  • Wow, it looks like psychodelic lace knitting! Very inspiring to a compulsive knitter like me.

• 'Shouting into the wind' in Mississippi

  Tue Sep 13, 2011
  • One of the counter arguments to this kind of draconian invasion of privacy and increase in government control is to point out the huge increase in costs -- if we were counted from conception, I'd be able to collect Social Security a year earlier, ditto Medicare.

• Happy Labor Day

  Mon Sep 6, 2010
  • The link from the photo credit says this: Peace. Ocean Beach, Fire Island, August 29, 2010 Peace, Everyone

• Australia school sorry after Hitler costume uproar

  Fri Aug 27, 2010
  • Nazis are self-avowed enemies of the US and the civilized world. A small number of radical Muslims are the same -- this is NOT an accurate comparison to have drawn!

• ACLU: Pain ray 'tantamount to torture'

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • Hey Mickey, thanks for your thoughtful comment. I get really concerned when we stray towards human experimentation without meaningful consent. History (ours and other nations'') shows that it's an easily abused and manipulated situation.