O’Reilly Compares Daily Kos to Nazis, KKK
Godwin’s rule, anyone? During the July 17 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, discussing comments he made the previous night comparing the Daily Kos blog to the Nazi Party and to the Ku Klux Klan, host Bill O’Reilly asserted that “[t]he comparison is valid.” O’Reilly was responding to a viewer who said in an [...]
...read moreThe Company You Keep
This week, anti-choice extremists are protesting at a Birmingham clinic — the same clinic that was bombed by Eric Rudolph less than a decade ago. They’re also targeting a clinic in Wichita, Kansas — a clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller, a man who has been shot in both arms, stalked, and threatened by “pro-life” [...]
...read moreYearly Kos
In case you needed another reason to go to Yearly Kos this August, I’ll be speaking on a panel along with Glenn Greenwald and Mike Allen of The Politico. The panel will be moderated by The Nation’s Ari Melber, and is titled, “Blogs and the MSM: from Clash to Civilization.” It should be pretty interesting, [...]
...read moreAs We Are
A very cool new online magazine by Trudi Evans. She describes it as: This magazine is dedicated to providing women with a forum to speak out and speak up. It is founded on the belief that we are good enough, as we are. Our hips don’t need to shrink, our clothes don’t need to look [...]
...read moreJust got back from the torture chamber
Those of you who read my blog regularly will be familiar with the cast of regulars: me, my scooter, Ashanti (cute youngest daughter), Kat (cute-but-troubled oldest daughter), and various neighbors and friends. You also know that one of my favorite pasttimes is taking pictures of Ashanti and obsessively posting them. I think it has something [...]
...read moreThe Power of Cliche
A great event happening this weekend in NYC: The Power of a Cliche: Representing Iranian Women Hosted by Iranian Alliances Across Borders and ArteEast Saturday July 21 4:30 – 6:30pm The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) New York, NY Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB) and ArteEast are proud to present an afternoon of spoken word [...]
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