Blue Herald

A number of bloggers participated in “Blog for Choice Day 2008″ on 1/22/08 to celebrate Roe v. Wade’s 35th Anniversary (I’m a bit late). Via Shark-Fu, here’s a long list of participating bloggers, and here’s Salon’s “Roe, 35 years later,” featuring reflections from several feminists.
Melissa McEwan adds a few thoughts and passes on John [...]

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Nicole Atkins - “The Way It Is”
Here’s the performance that earned Nicole Atkins a host of new fans. (The studio version is here, for comparison.) Here’s her Wiki entry, official website and MySpace page. Her recent tour with The Pipettes must have been an interesting pairing.
(I particularly [...]

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Hang in there… the week is nearly over!

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Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
(Check out the category. I’m such a scream!)

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BWAAAHAAAHAAHAA…! Can I write a headline or what?!
“Conservative Republicans were likely to be restless over tax rebates going to those without income tax liability.”
The hell you say! Actually, conservative logic dictates that money giveaways should go directly into the offshore accounts of big oil. Haven’t you people ever heard of “peed on”… er, “trickled [...]

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“We’ve all become familiar with the ways the Republican noise machine transmits lurid bits of misinformation and tendentious attacks from the conservative fringe into the heart of American political discourse, the process by which a slightly misdelivered joke by John Kerry attracts the ire of Rush Limbaugh and ends up on the front page of [...]

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What matters is winning. Not America. Not it’s citizens - you and me. Not our welfare. Not our security. Not our happiness. Not our world standing. Nothing. Just WINNING!
I hear the democratic rhetoric. They often publicly state they are democrats. History tells me they are democrats. CNN even prominently displays a ‘D’ after their names. [...]

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