Proposition 8 “served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationship and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.”

It seems that the office supply store Staples has decided to pull its advertising from news programming on television stations owned by Sinclair — you know, the ultra-right wing company that made headlines by  [more...]

One of the reasons I fled from Washington, DC was that I wanted to live somewhere where the Bush administration wouldn’t have such a foothold, a place where there were no missile launchers on street corners and  [more...]

Just a week or so ago, I was reading stories saying that much of the money earmarked for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan was unspent. And then this morning, the story changed radically: The U.S. military has spent  [more...]