Daily Archives: May 28, 2009

Jesse the Body vs. Torture – The Daily Beast

“This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed.”

– Jesse Ventura, August 2008

I don’t agree with most of his politics – and why should I? – but Jesse Ventura has been on a roll coming out against torture recently. Here’s a nice roundup of his recent appearances.

Alec Baldwin: Why Childless Straight Couples Make the Case for Gay Marriage

Baldwin makes a very, very good argument concerning Talibangelical hypocrisy when it comes to gay marriage.

If you look at it through that point of view, it’s a no-brainer argument. Heck, if you look at it as anything but a fundamentalist theocrat point of view, it’s obvious.

Heck, singer Rob Thomas makes more sense than your average Republican fear-filled bigot, and I don’t expect much from musicians who aren’t folk singers.

Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, lays out a plan for action.

I still reiterate that the fastest way to get equal rights for gays in this country is to ensure that they pay nothing but property tax until they have the same rights as anyone else in this country.

For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’ – NYTimes.com

I don’t get this.

Apparently, the concept of kids hugging as a greeting is some kind of new thing?

i guess the Times is finally coming out of it’s shell. Hell, all my close friends have been doing this for years. It was a Brotherhood staple that we helped spread wherever we went. It became more important as the years have gone on and we have moved farther and farther apart and see each other less and less often. If anything, I still give hugs to folks who are caught off guard because I forget they didn’t grow up the same way I did. But most of them catch on eventually.

And even that aside, most cultures celebrate greeting and departing in such a way. I can’t imagine going to Mexico to visit the family without hugs; much less seeing the neighbors.

Like the whole “pity the rich” thing they had going on, some of the Times reporters are really, really detached from reality. And you wonder why some newspapers are dying?