Hello Cyberspace, with this post I am officially joining the Blogosphere and the news/information revolution. Yes, I'm a liberal and I'm not afraid of the word or the connotations that seem to have gotten attributed to it over the years. Does it mean I'm pro-abortion and anti-death penalty? Yes. It also means I'm pro-civil rights and I'm against nationalist aggression in the name of economic growth or natural resource acquisition.
So, what's got me steamed today?
How about this little tid-bit involving a beheaded little girl's body found 4 years ago on a walking trail. In these days of runaway brides, neighborhood sexual predation, laci peterson and terry schiavo there is no way media would have ignored this story had little Erica Green's headless body been white. The outrage that would have been generated by such a find in a white neighborhood would have launched manhunts and candlelight vigils and a nation of mourning. This nation is divided into political camps these days that is certain but to think we have reached some racial detente is ludicrous. There are still two Americas, a white one and a black one and occasionally they rub up against each other and still generate age-old tensions and hatreds. We have a long way to go.
Interesting piece here by Ted Rall about free speech and how much influence an employer has on that right.
Terrifying news coming out of Red State America where Darwin's radical and controversial(yes, read that as sarcasm!) theories of evolution are being challeneged by christians and supporters of the non-scientific horseshit known as Intelligent Design. How do you convince people the earth is getting warmer and wetter when they don't even believe in one of science's fundamental truths?
If you visit my homepage, have patience, I'm still working on it.
Any boxing fans out there? You can read my preview of tonight's big lightweight showdown here. Enjoy.
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