Archive for the 'Equality' Category

Gods’ Country

If you ever take a drive through the heartland of America on Interstate 70 you will eventually come across the Effingham Cross, near Effingham, IL. This 200ft structure is located just a few hundred feet off the highway, surrounded by ten large plaques, each listing one of the Ten Commandments. A chapel is […]

A fair go, or natural justice for all

Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba I believe, but by a wonderful legalist sleight of hand it is not Cuban national territory. While it is totally controlled by the US it is not US territory either. It is a kind of convenient ‘no mans land’ that the current administration has been using to hold various suspects […]

What’s Race (still) Got to Do With It?

One of Stephen Colbert’s funnier interviews must be the one with Debra Dickerson, author of The End of Blackness. In typical Colbertian fashion, he skewers her belief that Barack Obama is not “black”. Seeing it reminded me again of how strange it has been to find myself living in Montgomery, Alabama, even though I […]

In Community We Trust

Wouldn’t it be great if you could print your own money? You can, and it is perfectly legal.
Before you start running to the photocopier with your $20 bills, there are some legal caveats. You can’t simply copy U.S. currency, you have to create your own unique currency. You also cannot have a […]

Fair Play

I’m writing this in defense of a friend. He has a business, and people like what he’s selling. Who wouldn’t, really? It’s ice cream! He was asked to be a vendor at a very popular street festival last year, and even though the weather was horrid (i.e. it rained almost every […]

Black People Need to Shut Up

Blacks need to shut up. They complain too much about being “oppressed,” and keep shoving things like “equality” in our faces. This is a WHITE nation, founded by white people, and black people should realize it and deal. If black folk weren’t so uppity, they wouldn’t inspire people to hate them.
Do […]

Gay Families

Recently in Time magazine James Dobson wrote a piece in which he commented on Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and her partner having a baby together. Dobson is against homosexual parenting in general and used this particular article to explain why. His primary objections are clearly religious, and he is quite up front […]

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