One group I never “got” are the “Gay Republicans.” But two news stories, one in the New York Times, and the other in the Washington Post, have revealed that this seemingly incongruous category, which I assume must be small to begin with, contains a wide array of identity and political positions. One division stands out: [...]
I once had a summer job renovating apartments in New York city. Not having much experience at this kind of thing, my Jamaican co-workers always assigned me those tasks they thought I could manage. Once, when I clearly was in over my head, doing something “easy” like mixing cement, one of them commented: Back in [...]
It sure is a shadowy world out there when you’ve got the wrong damned name.
In this AlterNet article, Kevin Griffis travels around the South, trying to figure out why poor whites vote for Bush, even though it is clearly against their own interests to do so. I particularly liked this quote: Like much of the rural South, each town I visited was relatively poor, overwhelmingly white and voted for [...]