Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Michigan decided that instead of holding the presidential primary when they have historically, (which, honestly, I don’t remember when it was) they would move it to earlier in the primary season. I would like to make it very clea: Voters in Michigan were never given the opportunity to voice an opinion about the date of […]
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Tags: disenfranchised voters, DNC, local, michigan, politics, presidential campaign, presidential election, RNC, voting
An Open Letter to the DNC
An Open Letter to the DNC Thanks for disenfranchising me. What? I’ve still got the right to vote? Yes. I do. I would like to point out to you, however that there is a difference between a theoretical right and an actual right. If I had no way to get to the poles on Tuesday, […]
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Tags: disenfranchised voters, DNC, michigan, politics, voting
Censorship
I’ve been thinking about media and perception, and the self censorship that’s gone on through a lot of the Bush administration, and I can’t help thinking that censorship in the media is a bad thing. I’m not talking foul language or nipples (though I don’t get the big deal there). I’m talking about censoring the […]
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Tags: censorship, media, memoir, optimism, politics
Change is afoot at the Circle-K
In the description of my blog on the side bar, it says that I blog about religion and politics, in all their not-a-dinner-table-conversation glory (gore?). And that’s always been what I wanted to blog about, because in the world I find myself in, lacking in knowledge of either realm means you’re pretty much not with […]
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Tags: change, personal, politics, random, religion
No, I can’t. I read a wide variety of blogs, everything from liberal academics to conservative and not so conservative Catholics and Muslims blogging about life. Some of my favorites are actually Between Hope & Fear and Tradicionalista. (I also read Ali Eteraz, but Muse and Sacrosanct are female, and I want that perspective more.) […]
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Tags: hijab, modesty, name dropping, veil
I have a dilemma.
I’m not pro-choice. I was once, and it just didn’t sit right with me. I didn’t come to the realization that abortion was wrong, per se. I came to see that I couldn’t support abortion for the same reason I couldn’t support the death penalty. Its not my choice, or anyone else’s for that matter, […]
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Harmful words and a lesson
As Ali Eteraz points out, its been almost a year since the Pope’s Regensburg lecture. I should remember, we waisted so much class time talking about it, that three months later, we covered three weeks of stuff in one night. The part I find interesting isn’t that he’s posting about it now, but what he […]
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Tags: Pope
How true. B1 would have never gone into the National Guard if he’d been able to afford school on his own. So he did. And now he’s on his second tour of duty in Mosul. Granted, things could be worse, he could be in Baghdad. Its not hard to see how things could be worse. […]
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Tags: war
I want to know who decided that it would be a good idea to knight Salman Rushdie. Apparently, Tony Blair gave his rubber stamp of approval, though he was damned either way. If he’d said no, he’d be appeasing people, and now that he’s said yes, I wouldn’t be surprised to see another fatwa out […]
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Tags: freedom, Iran, middle east
raining on my parade 