When we look at the current bigotry surrounding equal rights for gay people, it’s enlightening to look back at backwards, regressive bigots — not in the 1950s, but as recently as the 70s. Seriously, ponder this one:
In May 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street. A member of the commission leaked the vote to the New York Times, stating that “Mississippi was not yet ready” for the show’s integrated cast.
We progressives/liberals/Democrats are pretty riled up, absolutely sure that evil has triumphed and the world is going into the toilet. We’re so certain of this that we appear to be raving lunatics at times. Of [more...]
There’s an interesting article in today’s Washington Post about Kevin Phillips, a longtime Republican and former Nixon aide, who bemoans the rise to power of the Bush family: “I’ve never [more...]
I just heard on NPR that so far, the cost of the war on terror has been in the hundred billions. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing many additional billions — evidently, President Bush is about to ask [more...]
