I, like all of my fellow pinko bleeding-heart quasi-socialist brothers and sisters, like to frown and mutter when giant soul-sucking corporations are the topic of conversation, but I recognize that they do good things too, like donating millions to the Katrina relief effort. I won’t quibble over their profit margins vs. the amount they donate or anything like that, because what’s important is that they’re giving at all. Wal-Mart is donating $15 million, and various…
Only not. I’m about to start carting out conspiracy theories if someone doesn’t explain to me why people have to stay in NO and no other people can come in. Seriously, I know the conditions are toxic but there are still people who need to be fed and millions of dollars in civilian aid have been donated to the Red Cross to do just that. So let them do it.
I’ve done my part to FOX-bash in the past, but Shep Smith and the always-dramatic Geraldo are fantastic in their indignation in the clip of Hannity and Colmes linked over at Crooks and Liars. Unfuckingbelievable. There is a piece over at Slate chronicling the collective re-balling, if you will, of the nation’s major news broadcasters, who suddenly have decided to resume their posts as watchdogs for the poor and disenfranchised. That article is full of…
Ezra Klein, a junior at UCLA, putting words and ideas together in ways I only wish I could: Bush, of course, has been this strange mixture of government growth and administrative incompetence, almost as if he’s running a kamikaze mission to prove the Republican case against government. But conservatives, generally, are all for the private market and individual charity. If Bush really was so uncomfortable with government involvement, he could still do a bang-up job…
Damn. There is so much happening right now that I want to talk about. Old news is piling up. This is from yesterday, I think. Susan Wood, director of the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health is resigning more or less because of the agency’s decision to postpone indefinitely its decision on whether to allow the morning-after pill to sell without a prescription. “I can no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully…
Look at California, being all progressive and shit, trying to let same-sex couples get married without a court order. This is interesting because the Senate voted today to legalize same-sex marriages even though in 2000, California voters approved a referendum defining marriage as a union between two members of the opposite sex. So … Senate activists as opposed to judicial activists? Who will we villify if not the godless judges?!? Anyway, the California Assembly still…
Even as I was writing that post about how some in the far reaches of the country might not be paying attention to or caring about Katrina enough, it felt a little too cocksure and a little too heavily based on assumption and emotion. But I was mad at the thought that there are people out there who don’t know and don’t care what’s going on (because I know they’re out there), so I just…
I know Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, has an enormously stressful job, but today he argued with NPR’s Robert Siegel about reports that thousands of people are still stranded at the convention center with no food, no water, no law enforcement, nothing, despite having been told by officials that they should go there to be taken care of. With shit and piss everywhere and two dead bodies already pushed in a corner, draped…
I called Amber last night when I left work to see how she was doing and get her take on Katrina (her grandparents live on the Florida coast) and she was surprised to hear that the situation in New Orleans especially is so dire. She doesn’t have internet at home, and I’m unsure if she has a TV or not. She said at the bar in her restaurant (where she spent 12 hours working yesterday,…
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