Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Minneapolis Bridge Victims' Funerals: It's ALL FUN-erals ALL THE TIME To Pastor Fred Phelps

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Talk Radio, Hurricane Katrina, Crime, Social Commentary, Virginia Tech, Sectarian Violence, Christians, Death, Human Rights, Homosexuality, Legal Matters, Pornography

  Pastor Fred and his crew of self-styled Baptists who like to show up at funerals of gays, military and disaster victims, carrying signs saying God Hates You, and bellowing over bullhorns about how happy God is to murder human beings. He’s back. Again. They say decent Christians never speak out against others who hold themselves out to be

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• Country-Club Health Care

  Published: August 10, 2007, 6:21 pm

  Tags: Money Finance, 2008 Elections, Legislation, Health Care, Medicine, Social Commentary, Usa

  While politicians slobber about democratic principles of universal health care and market competition, an increasing number of Americans are turning back the clock to a me-first, screw-the-poor solution that would not have offended Louis XIV. To bypass HMOs and managed care insurers, doctors are setting up their own little country clubs for

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• Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild Her

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species, Religion, Freedom Of Speech, India, Sexism, Crime, Social Commentary, Muslims, Women S Issues, Mass Murder, Moral Decline, Radical Islam, Women, Bangladesh, Death, Human Rights, Moral Values, Domestic Surveillance, Pornography

  I wrote on TMV about Taslima, a poet and doctor, against whom a fatwa to behead her had been called ….for she dared to write poetry about “honor killings”; she was imprisoned for writing about women taken to the stadium and stoned to death while the mullahs present were laughing. Read on TMV May 18, 2007: Four Arrested In Honor

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• Julia Hare tells it like it is

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:48 am

  Tags: Video, Social Commentary

  Thanks to loyal reader Tigris for sending this link. Another reader sent this same video to me months ago and I forgot to post it. It is very uplifting to hear Ms. Hare speak.

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• Ty (Bad Girls Club) Calls Out ATL's Fakes & Wanna Be's

  Published: August 29, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Social Commentary

  Ty Colliers from Bad Girls Club has a blog on Myspace and she has some interesting things to say about our fellow Atlantans.The following is from Ty's Myspace Blog: Why da hell is every black woman's "employment status" a MODEL in ATLANTA? A model is NOT SOMEONE WHO:Does music videos (Sorry, that's my opinion)Does not have a legit signed contract

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• Our Hometown: The News Couldn't Be Weirder or Sweeter/ Harvest

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:37 pm

  Tags: Social Commentary, Life, Holidays, Family

  It isn’t what it may look like. It’s blueberries. Blueberries! The little 600 person rural village I grew up in continues to be a Brigadoonish reminder for any of us who grew up in or near small towns. Not only are the garbage truck, the one police car and the John Deeres in every [...]

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• PAVAROTTI Looked as the Stars Trembled With Love and Hope

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Social Commentary, Italy, Obituary

  Have you ever noticed that some brilliant souls seem to come to earth close together in time, eddy near one another in genius, and then also leave the earth within a few short months of one another? … as though they arrive in pods, like creatures of the sea and together swim away at a [...]

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• Me on Jouvenel, Part One

  Published: September 9, 2007, 4:03 am

  Tags: Books, Social Commentary, Moral Values

  I’ve been exchanging book recommendations with a conservative (blog) friend of mine, Mark Olson of Pseudo-Polymath. Mark Olson I recommended that he read Kenji Yoshino’s Covering and Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism by Jody Armour; in return, he suggested that I read Bertrand de Jouvenel: Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of

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• Eddie Griffin booted off stage for using n-word

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:09 am

  Tags: Social Commentary

  Some people will never learn. A new day is dawning and self-respect is creeping back into our collective subconscious. Comedian Eddie Griffin received a wake-up call at the Black Enterprise/Pepsi 14th Annual Golf & Tennis Challenge over the Labor Day weekend in Miami, Florida. The funnyman laced his routine with a string of n-words until his mic

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• 9-11: Mawkish, Maudlin, Mushy, Move On, Malice

  Published: September 11, 2007, 7:56 pm

  Tags: War, Health, 9 11, Social Commentary, Terrorism, Death, Hypocrisy

  “Mawkish” “Maudlin” “Mushy” “Move On” These are words I’ve heard various and sundry persons spit, utter, snap, disgorge today, with regard to various and sundry other comments, displays and utterances by those who are sincerely mourning their losses in the 184 lives lost at the Pentagon, lives

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• Covering or Badging

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Social Commentary

  Two views of group-imposed presentment-alteration requirements. I’m flying to New York for a funeral tonight, so I won’t be posting between tonight and tomorrow night.

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• 9-11 Psychology: Storytelling 9-11

  Published: September 11, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: 9 11, Social Commentary, Terrorism, Obituary, Storytelling, Psychology

  When History sleeps, it speaks in dreams: on the brow of the sleeping, the poem is a constellation of blood. When History wakes, image becomes deed, the poem is achieved: poetry goes into action. Octavio Paz There is an innate storytelling function in the psyche, as surely inborn as the instinct to procreate, to eat, sleep, [...]

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• A Jew in Sun Country

  Published: September 13, 2007, 6:10 pm

  Tags: Minorities, Judaism, Social Commentary, Jews

  Cross-posted to the Debate Link On my recent trip to New York, I flew Sun Country Air. I’ve used them before, and have had generally positive experiences. For flights in and out of Minneapolis, they are far cheaper than the competition, especially the exorbitant fares charged by Northwest, which dominates the airport. They fly direct, which

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• A Jew in Sun Country, Part II

  Published: September 14, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: Minorities, Judaism, Social Commentary, Jews, Integration

  A follow-up.

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• Campaign Ads: Don't Do It Rudy, and Sen. Thompson, Do You Really Want to be Called Fred0? Analyzing Political Ads and Symbols

  Published: September 15, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Rudy Giuliani, Social Commentary, Fred Thompson, Reviews, General David Petraeus

  It looks like we’re in for another season of campaign ads that accidentally entertain without meaning to, some that rise to fine and memorable art, and some that are the equivalent of ongoing intra-venous poison that causes deafness. I’m hoping some and even most of the ads we’re about to see will actually tell the story of each

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