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My objection isn't that the anti-abortion lobby bought ad time. It's a free country. My objection is that we as a nation continue to allow bottom-feeding fear-mongering snake-oil salesmen like James Dobson and his crew of blue-nosed hypocrites to coexist and be given equal intellectual consideration with facts and objective reality. [More]

So people who have known me for a long time know that occasionally I’ll get into a space where “things happen.”  The stars align, the clouds part, and for a little while all of the potentials and hopes and maybe that I often talk about start happening.  It’s actually a fairly regular pattern in my life – a period of contemplation and not much obvious activity followed by an intense burst of creativity and/or production in which amazing things occur.  This is when I play my best shows, do my best writing or ranting or whatever work I’m doing at the time.  These are the time... [More]

In the middle of the denials, an important question is being overlooked. [More]