Day December 6, 2008

Anita Bryant and Sarah Palin

Anita gets a pie in the face. 1977. Well there’s no real difference between Anita Bryant and Sarah Palin, is there? Except maybe that Bryant can utter repeated coherent sentences without a teleprompter, that is. Both are reactionary bigots who…

The real Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn spent ten years underground and did a number of  bombings in opposition to the Vietnam War. It is important to realize that, no matter what you think of the bombings ethically or as…

Milk. The movie

Sue and I saw Milk last night. It’s everything you’ve heard about it. Stunning. Go see it. One major political point. In 1978 it looked like Prop 6 (the Briggs Initiative) would pass in California. It was a viciously homophobic…

Google is my doctor

Scott Adams, cartoonist of Dilbert, had a baffling speech malady he thought might be related the problem he has with one hand called focal dystonia. He googled “vocal dystonia” and found it is called spasmodic dysphonia. So, he did a…