Flush Bush in 2004!Postings and commentary on the downfall of a dummy... (And on what's really important for our future!)Amish in the City (or Reality TV is Truly Terrible Trash Television!)- March 13, 2004 Hollywood Amish As spiritual cousins to the Amish, Mennonites feel a particular distaste at the prospect of an Amish-based "reality" TV show proposed to air this summer on UPN. After plans for Amish in the City emerged in late January, we thought such a preposterous concept would soon vanish on the shifting tides of taste. Unfortunately, we misjudged the network's determination to make Amish in the City its latest prism of comedic distortion, this one directed at an already misunderstood, and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/categories/flush/2004/03/13.html#a176 What's worse, screwing an intern or screwing the country!- March 11, 2004 A letter to Salon.com in response to this article (to which I was alerted by True Majority): What I want to know is when the Democrats are going to start taking some of this information seriously and going after Bush in a big way. Information comes to light every day about how Bush has lied, about sinister neo-con plans to build a military empire and squash all dissent, about the myriad ways in which in three short years the Bush administration has made us less secure, less free, less healthy,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/categories/flush/2004/03/11.html#a164 The truth about 9-11- March 11, 2004 I've seen some sites on the web that have presented some elaborate challenges to the official story of what happened on 9-11-2001. I don't know if I should take them seriously or not. But a group called the "Family Steering Committee" has put forth some tough questions for GW Bush, and this is a serious group, made of substantial, accomplished individuals who ought to be taken seriously. So I wrote e-mails to the government's 9-11 commission as well as to Bush and to my Senators and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/categories/flush/2004/03/10.html#a163 Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association- March 2, 2004 Or, More Proof that Dubya and Right-Wingers are Full of Shit Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association Arlington, Virginia The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization. The results of more than a...http://www.aaanet.org/press/ma_stmt_marriage.htm Wedding Church And State (From TomPaine.com)- March 1, 2004 Susan Jacoby's forthcoming Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism will be published in April by Metropolitan Books. The author is also director of the Center for Inquiry-Metro New York. In 1773, the Rev. Isaac Backus, the most prominent Baptist minister in New England, observed that when "church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs.http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10025 Bush is un-American! Patriot Act is un-American!- March 1, 2004 Mike Keefe, The Denver Post "President Bush's endorsement of this mean-spirited amendment shows that he is neither compassionate nor concerned with the rights of all Americans," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Gays and lesbians are our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends. They serve as firefighters, police, doctors and professional athletes. They laugh at the same jokes and worry about car payments and credit card debt. Amending the constitution to deny them the same.http://radio.weblogs.com/0131587/categories/flush/2004/02/29.html#a154 |