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Oct 22 2008

Write Your Own Caption #26

Posted by: terrance in current events, humor, pictures, politics

Normally I post these without much comment. But I this time I couldn’t help it.

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Oct 16 2008

Signs of the Times?

Posted by: terrance in current events, economics, pictures, politics

This picture jumped out at me yesterday, during my morning news reading

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The image and the story behind it rang a bell for me. (And not just because it’s a story from my home state.)

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Oct 15 2008

A Toast to the Lovely Couple?

Posted by: terrance in current events, pictures, politics

It seems that, in the waning days of his presidency, George W. Bush has at least one friend left in the world, when it comes to Italiian prime minister Silvio Berlsconi.

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Oct 01 2008

Little Gandhis

Posted by: terrance in pictures

This was too cute not to share; children dressed up like Gandhi to celebrate his 139th birthday.

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Jun 28 2007

Live Blogging the Candidates, Take Four

Posted by: terrance in MBAPBSAllAmericaDem, blogs, current events, elections, gay rights, media, pictures, race

Now we’re on to HIV/AIDS, and I’m waiting to see if any of the candidates will mention the failure of “abstinence-only” and it’s devastating impact in Africa.

Oh. My. God. I guess I have to eat some of my previous words.

Obama actually said the word “homophobia” in his answer on HIV/AIDS, and the riffed for a minute on the metaphor that “we are infected” with a number of other things that make us susceptible to the epidemic. But he didn’t make the natural leap that we’re infected with homophobia. Black ministers are spreading it from the pulpit and that’s one of the reasons why it’s taken 25 years for the Black Baptist Convention to even mention HIV/AIDS.

But I guess I should be somewhat pleased that homophobia even came up at a forum on issues for the African American women.

Oh, and Hillary, it was gay communities that addressed the epidemic first, when nobody else in government cared. That was the Reagan era, and things did get better in the ’90s. Thank you.

Biden, you didn’t get tested for AIDS you got tested for HIV antibodies. Geez.

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Nov 09 2006

Faith-Based Blinders

Posted by: terrance in asides, books, current events, pictures, religion

I wrote earlier that author David Kuo seems to have stumbled through Washington politics wearing a major set of faith-based blinders. Now he says he didn't know about Virginia's anti-gay marriage amendment. Literally didn't know if was on the ballot until election day. You gotta be fucking kidding me. I mean to live in Virginia and not know that? You either have to be working very hard at not paying attention or just not giving a shit. Given his comment in the same post that it "doesn't look like bigotry," suggests that it's probably a case of the latter as much as the former.

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Sep 28 2006

Finding Jesus in Strange Places

Posted by: terrance in asides, current events, pictures, religion

If you think that previous pic was a bit much, here's the one I didn't post. [Via Feministe.]

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Sep 28 2006

Write Your Own Caption #25 (NSFW)

Posted by: terrance in bush, pictures, politics

This is all kinds of wrong, and definitely NSFW. But I can’t help myself.

If you’re drinking your morning coffee, or some other beverage, you might want to finish swallowing and set it down right about now.

You’ve been warned.

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