Oh, yeah, racism is no longer a problem in the United States

The battle hasn’t been won; the battle has just begun.
I rarely do this, but here is an Associated Press story in its entirety. It needs no commentary, as it speaks for itself:
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack [...]

‘B’ is for ‘boycott’

Proposition 8 ringleader Frank Schubert is quoted by the Los Angeles Times as having said that Prop 8 opponents “don’t have a right to blacklist and boycott our supporters.”
Oh. Yes. We. Fucking. Do.
Not that the pro-Prop 8 fascists know anyfuckingthing about others’ rights.
But we real Americans who oppose Prop 8 have the First fucking Amendment [...]

President-elect Obama AIN’T Abe Lincoln

Associated Press photo
Barack Obama is likable enough. I voted for him.
I was tempted to vote for Ralph Nader, as Nader is more ideologically aligned with me and as Obama was going to win California’s 55 electoral votes no matter what anyway, but I went ahead and voted for Obama –only to discover the next day that [...]

Repugnicans, ‘Christo’fascists and other assorted wingnuts: Crafty or insane?

For the past eight years the Repugnicans and wingnuts have been in charge of the nation like the patients being in charge of the insane asylum.
Now that they legitimately have lost power because their way of doing things nearly destroyed the nation and its democracy — I believe that a World War III-lovin’ McInsane/Palin-Quayle administration [...]