Here are 10 posts from around the liberal blogosphere that you should read when you have the time, starting with:
1) This diary by refinish69, History Was Made Tonight & My Part In That History on the Democratic debate last night in the context of his own history in the gay rights movement. As passionate and stirring a piece of writing as I’ve seen this year.
2) Dave Niewert’s post at Orcinus, Soldiers of the apocalypse on Max Blumenthal’s recent report exposing the under the radar proselytizing by an extremist Christian Right group at the Pentagon, including the distribution to military officers and civilian employees of the infamous “Left Behind” video game where Christian “warriors” either convert or kill non-Christians in an end times scenario set in New York City.
3) the field negro on the continuing (and officially ignored) violence in our own cities in “Orphans of violence.” Ignored, of course, because the victims of this violence are not pretty blonde white women, but young and poor African Americans.
4) Jill from Brilliant at Breakfast gives us the low down on our national prejudice against “women who eat too much.” Not surprisingly, we continue to give young women the message that they should endanger their health in order to enhance their sex appeal.
5) The Unapologetic Mexican updates us on the story of Pedro Guzman, a developmentally disabled man and US citizen who was deported for the crime of having brown skin. A true modern horror story of Bush’s America and the cost of deconstructing civil liberties.
6) Nouriel Roubini explains what the current mortgage crisis means for our economy, and its not good news, in Worse than LTCM: Not Just a Liquidity Crisis; Rather a Credit Crisis and Crunch. A little wonky but rewards the close reader who sticks with it to the end.
7) Real Climate lays to rest the canard, most recently proclaimed in a Financial Times op-ed, that the IPCC’s process by which its recent climate report was prepared was limited to a “narrow” circle of professionals, and lacked “transparency.” In fact, rather than being limited to a biased bunch of global warming alarmists, the IPCC process was more open than the traditional peer review process for papers published in Scientific journals, where the reviewers’ comments are anonymous and not disclosed to the public before or after publication. By contrast, the IPCC process was fully open to the public with reviewers’ identity and their comments on proposed drafts available to anyone with internet access.
8) Think Progress provides us with a story regarding individuals who are our last defense against the Bush administration’s systematic eradication of our constitutional rights, as evidenced by the most recent amendments to the FISA law. Hint: It’s not the Democrats. It’s those professionals of whom Shakespeare was so fond.
9) The brilliant Arthur Silber at his blog Once Upon a Time …, analyzing the most important constitutional right for women in his post Of Abortion, and Women as the Ultimate Source of Evil.
10) And last but not least, Avedon Carol of The Sideshow spelling out what should be obvious to all: that the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is no friend to the Democratic Party or to progressives, in The DLC – still not on your side.
Food for thought.
