The New York Times has two op-ed pieces on Proposition 8 this weekend; it’s interesting how California’s Prop 8 (the hateful, anti-American and anti-Californian ballot proposition that wrote homo-hatred into the state’s constitution with 52 percent of the vote) has become a national issue.
Times columnist Charles Blow (no guffaws), who is black, argues that blacks didn’t push the passage [...]
November 30, 2008
NYT pieces on Prop 8: The black vote and yes to probing the Mormon cult
November 30, 2008
Why they call it ‘Black Friday’
New York Times photo
Temporary Wal-Mart worker Jdimytai Damour, a 34-year-old native of Brooklyn, was sacrified to the golden calf on “Black Friday.” After they trampled him, bargain hunters simply stepped over his body as they streamed into the store, The Associated Press notes. We’ll blame the greedy shoppers, of course, but what about the corporatocrats and plutocrats who encourage [...]
