Well...

Personally, I'm still mostly here with Robin McKinley, but I love this message of compassion by Garance Doré.

And Bois de Jasmin keeps me a bit more grounded in the big picture, for which I am grateful. For example, the blog owner is currently planning a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.

hrm

weird stuff going on in Indiana, but this may spread to other states.

Roy McDonald is my new hero

HuffingtonPost link:Republican NY State Senator Roy McDonald's Awesome Defense Of Gay Marriage:

"You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn't black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing.

You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing.

I'm tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I'm trying to do the right thing, and that's where I'm going with this."

same-sex marriage

Eloquent: Zach Wahls speaks about family

thinking about racism

I've come across some interesting blog posts lately that are forcing me to reconsider how I deal with racism and homophobia; reconsider how I think in general.


http://www.racialicious.com/2007/06/22/denial-and-delusion-why-public-conversations-about-race-fail-before-they-begin/

http://twowomenblogging.blogspot.com/2010/05/echo-by-jay.html

http://twowomenblogging.blogspot.com/2010/10/national-coming-out-day-by-jay.html

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/denial-a-river-wider-than-charles-racism-and-implicit-bias-cambridge

http://ciderpress.livejournal.com/193790.html

How to tell people they sound racist

How to tell people they sound racist

the challenge of anti-racist

Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban

Woohoo! Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban

my two cents

I feel that Wesley Snipes' sentence of 3 years in prison for tax evasion is excessive.

"Moreno cited the cases of former Washington mayor Marion Barry and singer/actor Marc Anthony, who avoided prison after failing to file tax returns, and singer Willie Nelson, who remained free despite owing $17 million in back taxes."

The response of the appeals court seemed to imply that they were trying to make an example of him; that seems unfair. Why do these other people avoid prison?

Okinawa

So the rally held in Okinawa over the weekend is big news all over Japan right now. I wonder what will happen to the Futenma base.

There are a ton of bases in Okinawa though!

great post "it was racist"

Lots of food for thought in this post: it was racist.
The references that the author cites sound very interesting.

thoughtlessness...

A great post on thoughtlessness and racism.

i just don't understand

Why should someone else's religion dictate my health care? It doesn't make any sense.

And I do think there is a need for ethical evaluation of technological innovations, which includes medical advances, but this is distinct from moral judgements on what medical care should be provided. Ethics are distinct from morals.

kenji yoshino

Read an excerpt from his book here; articulate and perceptive. I want this book!

Disgrasian: Amazian of the Week: Sgt. Sandra Lee

Kudos to Sgt. Sandra Lee for speaking out.

Those statistics are boggling!

well said

An excellent summation of the issues surrounding the case on Polanski from illdoctrine.com

Chris Rock rules too.

yay for the al franken amendment

Senate approves amendment

Hopefully it will remain through the final vote + after reconciliation with the House amendment.

Gotta wonder why the 30 GOP members and the Defense Department oppose this amendment. It's such an obvious clause. Yay for everyone who voted for it.

Republican Sen. George LeMieux of Florida echoed some of Murkowski's sentiments.

"I can't see in any circumstance that a woman who was a victim of sexual assault shouldn't have her right to go to court," LeMieux said. "So, that is why I voted for it."

Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania did not vote.

- "Senate passes Franken amendment aimed at defense contractors"
By Cynthia Dizikes, MinnPost

Actually, it should be illegal for companies to require employees to resolve sexual assault allegations and other claims through arbitration. These are crimes; the police/military should investigate them.

The senators who opposed the amendment (all Republicans and all men):
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

the associated press is stupid

According to the Associated Press,
Roman Polanski lost the first round Tuesday in his battle to avoid extradition to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

It's not sex. He drugged and raped her. He admitted to it!

Ugh. It's horrible to just type that sentence out. Ugh ugh ugh.

update: better than I can put it, this post sums up the whole situation nicely.

the women's crusade

The Women's Crusade - saving the world's women.

ugh

fong lee and violence

Police officers being offered/awarded the medal of valor for shooting unarmed civilians just boggles the mind.

Racism 101

A followup to the previous post: Racism 101

An ever-expanding list of common understandings we share as anti-racists. Please feel free to submit your own entries.