Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK Johnny Lee Clary explains how he the late Reverend Wade Watts made him question his racist beliefs. (Clary left the Klan and later apparently became close friends with Watts.)
Hat tip- Boingboing.
So yesterday I started getting flooded by calls from the phone number 1-800-684-8429 on my cell phone. Each time, the person on the other end asked for a totally different person. After telling them that I was not the person they were looking for, and would they please stop calling me, they abruptly hung up. […]
Well, this is rather disgraceful:
Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — who went there.
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show on Thursday that, under […]
Do you ever stop and think, “Hm, I wonder what former Republican Senator Norm Coleman is up to right now”?
… Nah, me either.
The Associated Press:
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.
He first joined the senate in 1962, taking the seat that was […]
Americans United for Change, a progressive advocacy group lobbying for health care reform put this ad together portraying insurance companies as the real life “death panels,” not the government under the proposed plans making their way through congress.
This is a 30 second ad, so it’s clearly meant for broadcast (not just for YouTube as so […]
It’s a Will Smith action movie from 1998 that I just watched for the first time tonight. It’s pretty painful to watch at times, as most 1990s movies whose plots involve “hackers” are, but it was interesting to watch in a post-Bush era.
The film revolves around a top secret and totally illegal NSA spying program […]
At multiple events in recent days, right wingers have brought loaded guns to protests outside of President Obama’s health care events. At one recent town hall, about a dozen people with guns showed up, including one man with a semi-automatic machine gun. It later turned out to be part of a conservative radio stunt, but […]
After 18 days with no Internet, AT&T has finally delivered. I’m more than eager to put this frustratig saga behind me and get back to blogging normally. Whew!
They swear. Again. It was supposed to start working on July 31st. Brother.
Incidentally, you know what the stupidest part of this saga is? I’ve wasted over 300 of my 450 monthly “anytime” minutes on the phone with AT&T trying to fix their screwups.
… Calling a 1-800 number.
… from my AT&T cell phone.
I tried to get […]
I went to go see the new movie District 9 at the theater last night with Tiffany and some friends. It was pretty interesting and definitely not what you’d expect from an alien invasion typed film. I predict it’ll make a good deal of money. Tiffany says that it was an indie film and cost […]
Another day without internet. Working to re-re-re-re-schedule a technician to come out to our building yet again.
AT&T promises– promises that my internet will return tomorrow, on Tuesday the 11th. Whew.
Remember the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 that left 33 people dead? I remember listing all the ways that such a tragedy could be prevented in the future:
Here’s another idea. How about a law that says if a gun dealer sells five weapons to murders who use those guns to kill people, then they’re not […]
She’ll likely be sworn in by the end of this week, though a ceremony won’t happen until the court reconvenes in September.
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