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November 13, 2007

Too...much...going...on...

There's so much to blog about I don't know where to start, so today you just get links.

John McCain thinks that calling Hilary Clinton a bitch is part of an "excellent question." More discussion here.

Somebody is finally noticing that the majority of animated characters are boys - even when they are worker bees...which are always female.

And finally, in Seattle, a collection of apartments designed to get chronically alcoholic homeless people off the streets that does NOT require them to stop drinking.

Here is another article about it. Here is their official site.

I support this idea wholeheartedly. Yes, take my taxes, please. Alcoholism is a mental illness like any other, and poverty and homelessness are not likely to help anyone quit. Why deny someone the social supports that keep them off the street because they can't cure their illness alone, or because it isn't cured yet? The idea is inhumane and preposterous.

The quote that really got me is this one:

"Finally, he asks, what kind of equation of humanity is this: Since you refuse to stop drinking, since you refuse to address your disease, you must die on the streets."

November 1, 2007

The Jena 6

I realized the other day that I haven't blogged about the Jena 6. I just kind of have felt that it was pretty obvious what needed to be said, and others were saying it better than me. But now I feel like my silence might be interpreted as not having an opinion, or not caring.

(Well, OK, no one who knows me would think that I don't have an opinion.)

In any case, there have been many commentators recently, including allegedly one on NPR that I haven't been able to verify yet, that have said things like, "It's just a noose."

A noose is a symbol of lynching. A symbol used in a ritual of murder, torture, and the enforcement of the idea of white supremacy. For some graphic pictures that help make this point, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

It isn't just a noose.

http://www.freethejena6.org/