Imagine my surprise: We’re now reaping the “rewards” of Bushies’ Jeebus-driven anti-sex health “education” policies. A new CDC report has both of these “rising sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically-driven education policy”. (US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during [...]
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Old folks: We got ours already
No federal health insurance for the rest of you, say the over-65’s who already have it.
via Matthew Yglesias
Sotomayor and the Klan-loving Senator Sessions
Matthew Yglesias has a nice “Thought of the Day”:
I would pay good money to hear Sonia Sotomayor say, “Senator Sessions, I think it’s ironic to be facing these questions from a man whose judicial nomination was rejected by this very committee on the grounds that he’s a huge racist.”
Same-sex marriage dies in NY for now
Giving Up on Marriage Equality, for Now:
The lord-of-the-flies chaos in the NYS Senate has killed any chance gay marriage had in New York this year. Perhaps that was part of the point?
Conservatives Prepping for Race War Against Sotomayor
From Matthew Yglesias: “More than one-third of the witnesses on the Republican’s list for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing are lawyers and academics who’ve based their careers on opposing affirmative action, and activists who have become symbols of the anti-affirmative action movement.”
Insane Sarah Palin is loose on twitter
I am going to miss her. You know, in the same way I'll miss Michael Jackson.
Some statistical evidence that the Iranian election was rigged
Vote results indicate biases typical of human-invented pseudo-random numbers.
It was all about Mr. Smith
NYS Sen. Hiram Monserrate has switched back to the dems, on the condition that they dump Malcolm Smith as majority leader. Showing their usual level of commitment to principle, they jump at the chance, forcing a 31-31 tie with no Lt. Gov. to cast the tie-breaking vote. State declares moral and functional bankruptcy.
This wouldn’t have happened to Eliot
As New York's government burns to the ground, we long for Spitzer
Obama absent on gay rights
Thoughtful commentary on the parallels to JFK on civil rights.