Monthly Archives: August 2005

Things Happen, And Happen Again

Posted on 8/30/2005 by Terrance

I’m nearly finished reading We wish to inform you that we will be killed with our families tomorrow. I’ll probably finish it later this today, but as I was reading it on the way home yesterday I started thinking of … Continue reading →

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Almost Had Me

Posted on 8/30/2005 by Terrance

Whew. I just narrowly avoided another embarassing gaffe like the White House chef post. After reading a heading about virgins suing Universal over the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. The new movie “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” will hit theaters next … Continue reading →

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Clap If You Believe in Dubya

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

Mark does an excellent job of dissecting this David Limbaugh column (brother of everyone’s favorite junkie/pundit) piece by piece. So I’ll just underscore something that jumped out at me in the first two paragraphs. Perpetual critics of President Bush’s initiation … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Iraq, Politics, Terrorism, War on Terror | 3 Comments

Why Don’t They Shut Up and Get Gone?

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

Nothing ever dies on the web. I posted about ChristianExodus.Org back in May of 2004. This morning, they showed up in my newsreader again, in LinkFilter and MetaFilter. For those not familiar with the organization, here’s a snippet from their … Continue reading →

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Uh…..

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

   Why isn’t this apparently able-bodied 19-year-old in Iraq instead of Crawford? Hey, if Michael Savage can say that people who oppose the war should be in internment camps, I can ask why this kid and others like him aren’t … Continue reading →

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With Friends Like These

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

First Cindy Sheehan and now this. The president sure has a way with women. Sometimes they turn on him. This one went from waving her post-Iraqi-vote blue finger, to sitting with Laura Bush during the State of the Union address, … Continue reading →

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Operation “Noble Cause”

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

   Via Allen L. Roland’s Radio Weblog.

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Phelps Flees

Posted on 8/29/2005 by Terrance

I suppose I should take some satisfaction in Fred Phelps and his family finally getting run out of town. Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Gay Rights, Iraq, Politics, Religion, War on Terror | 1 Comment

Guys and Dolls

Posted on 8/28/2005 by Terrance

  This is a little creepy. (Note: May be NSFW, "Not Safe For Work.") Grown men and "real life dolls," life-sized silicon female dolls, are the subjects of a photo essay. From the moment a doll is lifted from her … Continue reading →

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MSN Beta Broken

Posted on 8/28/2005 by Terrance

Nick is right. MSN Beta looks pretty freakin’ horrible in Firefox.    But is doesn’t look a whole lot better in Internet Explorer.    Of course that probably has somethign to do with the fact that I’m on a Mac … Continue reading →

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Rashawn Brazell Memorial Scholarship

Posted on 8/28/2005 by Terrance

I’ve blogged previously about the murder of Rashawn Brazell, a 19-year-old gay man in New York City, and the special role that black gay bloggers — especially those in New York — have played in keeping the story alive and … Continue reading →

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Darfur

Posted on 8/28/2005 by Terrance

I am about three quarters of the way through We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda, Phillip Gourevitch’s account of the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutis minority by the country’s Hutu … Continue reading →

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Bush the Blue

Posted on 8/28/2005 by Terrance

And I’m talking about his mouth, not his politics (as in " Indecent; risqué". I’m sure it’s been written and posted about elsewhere, but a reader sent me a link to this recent article containing a  passage about one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Politics, Protest, War on Terror | 5 Comments

Sending Links

Posted on 8/27/2005 by Terrance

Wow. Now this is something I’ve never seen. A top blogger asking people to send him links. As part of my duty to help the progressive blogosphere get smarter, I’ve asked you to send me links. Not just links on … Continue reading →

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Deja Vu

Posted on 8/27/2005 by Terrance

Kevin, at Lean Left, has a funny little post up about Tom Cruise and his past lives (which include being  Shakespeare). Funny, not because of what Cruise had to say about his other lives, but because of Kevin’s comment. Two … Continue reading →

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