Ok. I have been trying to stay above the fray with all the batshitcrazynuttywingers on the right. I mean, I don’t need the stress. I really don’t. However, I just snapped today. It was over at BJ, of course, and it was a thread on health care. One idiot was tossing out one wingnut… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Racial Issues
Fuck Them (and Not in a Good Way)
I’m furious. I’m enraged. I’m weary. I’m horny, but that’s not going to be part of the post today. In the comments from my last post, whabs brings up the point that guilt is supposed to be a part of what it means to be a woman. I have learned that lesson all-too-well. I feel… Continue Reading
The Politics of Hate
I have started a sober, thoughtful post on the shooting of the security guard at the Holocaut Museum, but I am not feeling sober nor thoughtful right now. It was an awful thing that happened. You know the sick and twisted part? Many on the right are trying to pretend that the asshole who did… Continue Reading
The Baser Side of Me
I’m still grieving. I have read many things in lefty blogs about Dr. Tiller’s murder, and I can’t seem to shake it. Partly because I was lulled into thinking that this kind of violence was in the past. Partly because I am just so damn discouraged at how the GOP still gets to define how… Continue Reading
She’s a Spicy Tamale!
And so it begins. Even before Sonia Sotomayor was picked by Obama as his first SCOTUS nominee, the monkeys started howling about how unfit she was. I blogged about the indignation here. In that entry, I deconstructed what racism feels like (as much as I could) and how white privilege is rampant and unexamined (by… Continue Reading