Coulter bitch slapped with a velvet glove.

Previously I have called for someone to give Ann Coulter the bitch slap she so richly deserves for her vicious, personal, homophobic and racist attacks on Democrats.

On June 26, Elizabeth Edwards rose to the ocassion with grace and elegance. She asked Ann to stop using the death of her son and name-calling to make attacks against her husband and other Democrats. Edwards asked Coulter to raise the tone of her discourse. Coulter twisted this to say that Edwards was trying to stifle her right to free speech. The implicit assumption from this understanding of what Edwards actually asked of her is that, aside from the hate and the venom, Coulter must shut up because she has nothing else to say.

Elizabeth Edwards is a smart and classy lady. I’d be proud to have her as a First (or Second) Lady of the United States. She is more intelligent and elegant by far than Ann Coulter – there really is no comparison. That is what makes her calling of Coulter out all the more delightful. She shows that you don’t have to descend into the gutter to make a point, even when trying to get the discourse out of the gutter. I am glad that there are the Elizabeth Edwards of the world. They will offset my sinking to the same level as Coulter in calling her a toxic waste dump of humanity; a vile, repulsive evil creature spawned from avarice, hate, and fear. Thank you Elizabeth.

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Why blog?

I am happy to be a “Fringe liberal blogger.”

I believe women should have the right to an abortion. I believe all people are created equal – men and women – no matter their skin color. I believe the rich should pay more taxes than the poor. I believe we can wipe out most of the homelessness and hunger in this country and the world if we really put our minds to it. I am a tree hugger. I believe we should take care of the earth. I believe we should protect the trees of nesting owls. I believe gays should have the right to marry. I believe in the separation of church and state. I believe torture is unacceptable and wrong in all circumstances. I questioned the necessity of invading Iraq from the start. I believe Al Gore won the election. I believe John Kerry won the election. I believe freedom of expression and dissent makes our country stronger. I believe that we don’t make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free (with props to Molly Ivans).

I believe we are the “Land of the free, and the home of the BRAVE” and freedom requires bravery and that secret prisons and Gitmo and Abu Ghraib and warrantless wiretaps and Presidential signing letters are indicia of fear and weakness and oppression. Those are not the traits of a free society, nor a brave society.

All these beliefs and more make me a “Fringe liberal blogger” and a “Looney Moonbat” because people like us just don’t shut up and go away. We write blogs. We write letters. We talk to other people. We donate our money and our time. We lead by example. We will not go away, and I will keep agitating and ranting and making noise until there’s no more breath in my body and my fingers are too weak to press the keys of the keyboard.

Great, another thing I have to worry about…

The Perils of “Being Smart”
If you believe that you can get better at something, you probably will.

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Puh-leeze.

The firing of U.S. Attorneys was so orchestrated and maneuvered as to have been executed with as much forethought and consideration as the Bushie regime could ever muster.

The only thing Gonzales is sorry about is getting caught.  The man is an embarrassment to lawyers everywhere.  He is the epitome of the craven, self-serving, disgustingly sycophantic, slimy, sleaze bag attorney who will say anything his masters pay him to say.  This is the kind of person who makes me ashamed to be an attorney.  Didn’t he take a vow, an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, not just as Attorney General, but as an attorney?  What a liar and hypocrite.  He should be disbarred.

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Not enough on his plate…

General Pace has taking to moralizing about gays in the military – because the military doesn’t have enough to do right now and has time and energy to squander on misplaced priorities….

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Um, how about ANY management?

The White House, i.e., Georgie B., tells Congress not to micromanage his war.  It could only be micromanagement if indeed there was any macro or mid management to begin with.  If there’s one thing Georgie’s little sand adventure has been missing from start to finish, it’s oversight by grown ups – the kind who are aware of 21st century political realities (Sorry Condi and Dick – the cold war really is over), and are not grandiosely deluded (buh-bye Donald and Paul).  He’s ignored his best advisers, and the Iraq Policy Group.  This is a situation crying out for management of ANY kind, micro or otherwise.

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Because we never gave a sh!t in the first place…

…why should we now?

Since in the U.S. HIV is still predominately a gay men's disease, and after over 25 years of the epidemic, rates of infection are STILL on the rise, why should the government, or anyone else who isn't directly impacted every time they have sex, step in to do something about it?