Author: catnip

Bush spells it out: And there should be no doubt in anybody’s mind what I believe a judge — the philosophy of a judge. And Harriet Miers shares that philosophy. Look, I’m upbeat about the tone of the hearings,...

I found a political quiz thanks to a link over at Progressive Bloggers so I rushed over to take the test, of course.

I’m a “socialist”. Quel surprise.

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I love my country. It’s an imperfect, often embattled country faced with major difficulties but it is a country that knows perfection is unattainable and that humility is not a vice. It is a country that has already come through serious threats to its very existence as a cohesive federation in the short span of time that has elapsed since Confederation. It is a country that understands its own worth and role in the world as a nation of compassion. It is a quiet, forceful storm of humanity in a global climate of chaos. It’s my home.

Der Speigel offers us all an intimate look into the experiences of two very different men – one a prisoner, the other a guard – as they lived through the abusive torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib.

We’ve seen the photos. We’ve read about the “bad apples”. We’ve heard about the terror. This article puts these lives on a parallel track as the torture happened. You will read about the intense reactions of both men and understand what it was like to be there.

I do not do abortion diaries. I don’t even participate in them other than to say I’m pro choice but this news NYT story caught my eye, so I thought I’d share it with you.

The gist? If Roe v Wade is overturned, there won’t be a return to back alley and coat hanger abortions because there’s a drug for something else on the market that, although no one knows exactly what the side effects may be, can be used by poor women to abort spontaneously. And hey, even if there are coat hanger abortions, the antibiotics we have these days will help women live through the horror. On top of that, rich women can just travel elsewhere to have their abortions so they shouldn’t worry either.

I’m not kidding.