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Why can’t we be more like South Africa?

Blog: November 14th, 2006

I remember when this country used to be more progressive than South Africa. Whatever happened to that?
The South African parliament on Tuesday approved new legislation recognizing gay marriages _ a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo… ”When we attained our democracy, we sought to distinguish ourselves from an unjust painful past, by declaring […]

R.I.P., Godfather

Blog: December 26th, 2006

A career told through YouTube clips. Take a moment, there’ll never be another like him…

No, this is not a sketch from Chapelle’s Show…

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Silence is Betrayal

Blog: January 15th, 2007

It’s important to notice when these settings are used to preach something other than the virtues of supply-side economics, pre-emptive wars and homophobia. There was a time when the religious movement in this country was characterized more by Martin Luther King, Jr. than by James Dobson.

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SF Mayor Proves He’s Not Gay

Blog: February 1st, 2007

Ever since Mayor Newsom bravely fought for civil rights when he allowed gay couples to marry in 2004, the country’s knuckledragger population has been speculating he’s gay. These are probably the same dimwits who assumed that if you doubted Hussein had WMD, it meant you were secretly the founder of the “I Want Saddam’s Love-Child” […]

Tim Hardaway and the Senseless Crowd

Blog: February 21st, 2007

Tim Hardaway can’t stand gay people. Sensible people can’t stand Tim Hardaway. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of senseless people in this world.Look for cartoons on this next week here, or in your Candorville-carrying local paper.
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More Conservapedia Wisdom: Marriage

Blog: March 15th, 2007

Today’s random bit of wisdom from Conservapedia:
Recently there has been a push by liberals for “same-sex marriage” however this supposed form of “marriage” has no basis in scripture, common law, the constitution, biology, or American social tradition. Then again, interracial marriage was considered to be taboo 40 years ago. 
I didn’t realize there was a basis […]

Chauncey Bailey Assassinated in Oakland

Blog: August 2nd, 2007

When Al Gore ran for the presidency, his opponents mocked his military service, because he had carried a journalist’s pen, not an AK-47, through the jungles of Vietnam. But the mounting death toll of journalists serving in Iraq should serve as a reminder that being a journalist in a war zone is a service every […]

Senseless and Stupid

Blog: August 7th, 2007

It didn’t take the Oakland PD long to find Chauncey Bailey’s assassin. If only Kennedy’s real killer had been this stupid.
A suspect in the daylight ambush shooting death of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was being formally booked today on suspicion of murder, authorities said. Devaughndre Broussard, 19, was in the process of being booked at […]