Today’s difficult but important read comes from journalist Mac McClelland: It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That’s what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the time I came up with [...]
Haiti
I won’t spoil the enjoyment I received from reading this letter to the editor from Satan (aka, Minnesota resident Lilly Coyle) responding to Pat Robertson’s vile comments regarding the tragedy in Haiti (which, the New York Times gives an interesting take that the tragedy is not that it happened but that Haiti’s infrastructure was so [...]
Even though he doesn’t miss being president, the spotlight, etc., it’s a bit weird to see George W. Bush back in the spotlight in this PSA with Bill Clinton. I can’t believe I’m about to write this, but between this, his solid high fives with Jerry Jones and the year’s distance of him not in [...]
Things are pretty bad down in Haiti after that devastating 7.0 earthquake. All you have to do is look at the pictures. And despite the feeling from the vile Pat Robertson that somehow these people deserved this, there are several resources you can donate to if you’re heart is in the right place. Help Haitians With a [...]
It’s cold and rainy here in Portland, but it’s not as bad as Haiti. So what should we talk about today? I’m running a bit haggard this morning, brain is only operating at half speed. Perhaps, we should dream of a place to go that takes us away from all this dreariness.
