Glory, Hallelujah!

Best news I've heard in quite some time - Santorum is on the ropes in Pennsylvania. It's early, I know; but let's kick the homophobic moron while he's down - maybe he'll stay there!

Do they or don't they?

Ever the trendspotter, the New York Times has declared that many women at top colleges aspire to be stay-at-home moms. Slate debunks the research method and conclusions, and it strikes me as sociological dilettantism. Meanwhile, last spring my colleagues at Simmons School of Management released the results of their study that contradicts the notion that women are opting out of the quest for positions of power and leadership.

Let Martha be Martha!

Update on the yet-to-be-determined issue of whether Martha Stewart will ever be permitted to be CEOof MSO again. If she can't without pleading guilty to some civil charges, I say she should assert her 90%+ voting share of the company's stock and take it private.

Just in time for the World Series....

Check out this music video, a paeon to a guy named Mike and other sexy ball players

Where to Point the Fingers

In the Katrina blame game, it's game, set, match to Charles Krauthmmer. As always, his analysis strips away the inessential and dismisses the inaccurate all the while making enormous common sense. His verdict: everyone who had responsibility has a share of the blame. Game over.

The public has a right to know...

...who's signing the anti-gay marriage petition in Massachusetts. So, combining good citizenship with HTML, a Massaachusetts couple has established a web site to publicize the names of petitioners.

From the group's mission statement:

KnowThyNeighbor.org is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to public information by making it available online. If it's public information, it should be simple for a member of the public to access it!

Initiative Petition # 05-02, The Constitutional Amendment to Define Marriage, represents a public political effort that could negatively affect the lives of many families, individuals, and children within the Commonwealth. By posting the names and addresses of the 65,825+ signers, KnowThyNeighbor.org is supporting the Democratic Process by providing the public with direct access to information that they are entitled to see and that is relevant to this controversial topic.

KnowThyNeighbor.org believes that the general public has the right to easy access of such information and makes no assertion as to how this information should be used by the public. This being said, the founders of KnowThyNeighbor.org, its support staff, and volunteers believe in equal marriage protection for all Massachusetts families an hope to encourage Civil and Legal Discourse on the topic.

Will it intimidate some people? No, I think it will shame them - as it should.

"There were no earthquakes."

Two key Massachusetts legislators have dropped their support for the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment. Their rationale? The Commonwealth has had gay marriage in place for more than a year, and they see no evidence of any negative effects.

Hey, Karl Rove - are you listening?

How long until we hear this spin from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

How bad is the water in New Orleans?

This bad. According to analysis done for Good Morning America, total sewage bacteria in a water sample from New Orleans is 45,000 times what would be considered safe for swimming in a pond or a lake.
One report says it could "take years to fullly restore clean drinking water."

The truth begins to trickle out from the Big Easy

GayPatriot exposes the corrupt politics (big surprise!) at the heart of the crisis in NOLA. This report comes from the Washington Post - not some right-wing blog. Will the rest of the MSM follow-up on this?

AFP Apologizes, sort of

According to Yahoo! the press agency AFP has thought better of it and withdrawn its photo and caption that sparked the outrage about racism re: the looting in New Orleans.

We need competent leadership!

Andrew Sullivan endorses Rudy in 2008. Amen.

Speaking truth to power (again) in the South

As with his Tsunami reporting, Anderson Cooper has distinguished himself by his humanity as well as his keen observation skills. The journalists and technicians down in the affected areas are enduring hardships, no doubt. But Cooper in the Gulf Coast, along with FOX News' Shepard Smith in New Orleans, are leading the pack with ther gritty, no-punches-pulled descriptions of the devstation.