Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo and the extreme right use them. This post was authored by SweetPea, a member of the Coalition for a Republican-Free America
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Part III, Identification of Scapegoats
(Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays)
by SweetPea
SECTION 2
As [...]
midnight musings
i have been trying to wrap my mind around many things lately- why some football teams are way better than others; why cats are so ridiculously needy and stalkish sometimes, and how people can think so regressively. it struck me as i read about pakistan the other day- and the one line in the [...]
Why i won’t vote for hillary clinton- and why you shouldn’t either
i am rabidly anti-religion of any stripe. I have pissed off any number of folks with my stance because what i generally feel for folks who buy into religion is- contempt. There is no place for religion anywhere- period. You can make a case for spirituality for sure and just because i [...]
‘god is not great’
so i have started reading christopher hitchen’s book- and it isn’t what you think. i mean, i suppose it is to some degree, but it is not a ‘bash religion and god’ kind of book. i have actually been quite delighted to actually read something that 1) hasn’t been dumbed down; 2) isn’t [...]
Ah, Books
When I was a 14-year old twit, my best friend and I began to mimic the affectations of the stuffed shirts who regularly got As on their Latin tests as we hunched in the back, hoping not to be called on.
“Ah, books!” Doug would exclaim, imitating Dennis Ryan’s owlish stare of superiority.
“Ah, [...]
Health Care for Nobody
A US Court of Appeals, in its infinite wisdom arrogant stupidity,has ruled that terminally ill people do not have the right to get unapproved, potentially lifesaving treatments even when doctors determine that this path might be their best hope for survival. Since the drugs aren’t approved by the FDA yet, and are still experimental, [...]
The Worlds Dumbest Fatwa’s
Lately I have noticed that American culture has embraced the word “Fatwa”. It of course has a negative connotation no matter what group uses it. We, as American’s, use it in a humorous fashion to note something completely ridiculous and outside the normal scope of logic. So lets take a humorous look at the original [...]
The votes are in and counted in Turkey.
The ruling Party, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party maintained control but lost 10 seats in the Parliament. Erdogan is a heavy-duty Muslim. At a rally today he said, per AP:
“We will never make concessions over the values of people, the basic principles of our republic. This is our promise. We will [...]
R E S P E C T – find out what it means to me
Bill Wilson and Ebby Thatcher
Alcoholics Anonymous has been called “the most significant phenomenon in the history of ideas in the twentieth century.” (from the introduction, The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham)
On a chill, rainy afternoon in November 1934, two men sat catercorner at the kitchen table of a brownstone house in [...]
