read Bob Herbert’s “The Ugly Side of the G.O.P.” Kanye was right.

It’s fitting that the “religious” party are crusaders for racism and war.

I welcome all moral people in this country to come to St. Paul, MN, next year, to protest the Republican National Convention. If we’re gonna have a two-party system, let’s replace the Republicans with the Greens.

P.S. Read here about the Jim Crow style (in)justice for the Jena Six. To fight racism in the judicial system, sign this petition for the Jena Six.

In case you believed the anti-abotion activists actually are worried about “baby killing” rather than trying a)controlling women and b)starting a theocracy, this story should shed any misconception.

Some crazy people from Operation Save America decided it was worth getting arrested to protest a Hindu prayer in the senate. These people terrify me.

If you are worried your kids will leave your crazy faith, make sure they never learn anything.

Glenn Greenwald lays out the saga of the right wing and Plamegate.

I think this is a great example of how propaganda works. The smart propagandist knows that you don’t need to convince the people that a lie is the truth. You only need to sew enough doubt that people stop believing the actual truth. If you ask many people that came of age in china after Tienemen square what they think happened, even those who have lived overseas and heard the actual story of what happened tend to view it as a wash: people say many things, who knows what is true. When people doubt reality happened it might as well not have.

Evolution opponents exploit this, even though they don’t realize they aren’t telling the truth. They throw long lists of untrue or discredited criticisms of evolution. To refute them is long and tedious so evolution goes from reality to “disputed”.

I’ve been reading about the Christian right, I recommend both books: Kingdom Coming and American Fascist. Very interesting, even in light of the self-destruction of the right wing coalition. An important take away for me was that we must not forget that the crazy right wing christians actually believe what they are saying. Their followers vote for “moral issues”, against their own self interest, because they think that those issue are more important. Also, these people are unreachable. We cannot change their minds or convince them of the error of their ways. They are true believers, and we can only fight them when they try and impose their beliefs on the rest of us.

I am sure he had some redeeming qualities, and I am sure there are many people who are legitimately grieving for the man, but I won’t be. He was a hateful bigot at heart and I hope he is remembered as such.

On 9/11:

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”

On the Gay Menace™:

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals

On Public Schools:

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don’t have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.