Harvey Milk preached hope for those on the margins; today’s GOP all too often preaches fear, callous indifference, denial, and despair. Look around on this Pride Weekend, and it is evident that hope is winning out over fear.

It’s about time.

Considering that Edwards’ old affair came to light after his career was already over, whereas the Sanford and Ensign affairs were revealed while they still held office and as they were gearing up to run for the presidency in 2012, isn’t it a bit odd that the media spent much more time beating up on Edwards’ dead horse?

Not surprisingly, Senator Kay Hagan is still unable to convince herself that a public option– which 76% of the American people support– should be a part of health care reform

As I said earlier in the week, it’s been quite frenzied at our house for months on end. And as I sit here, there isn’t anything I’d undo — but there are some things I might do better. The most crucial of which would be to have taken better care of myself as I was taking care of everyone around me.

Featuring concert video of Booker T. and Drive By Truckers. And a few new mp3′s from, Vandever, Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), and Avett Brothers.

I swore I wasn’t going to do this.

I really thought I could get through a day without writing about this, not even tangentially. Surely, the world does not need my two cents tossed on the towering pile of all that glitters. Wild horses couldn’t drag me into this, but domestic elephants. . . .

I’m sure Michael Jackson is happy he’s not around to see all the psychobabble being dished up about his life.

Did the crappy upbringing really doom him to brooding unhappiness, or did it fuel his otherwordly talent? Would he have been just as strange and troubled without the fame and fortune, or was being “Michael Jackson” the only thing that kept him out of Levenworth?

We’ll never know.

Obama thinks he can end torture by asking the State Department for effective policies to stop torture. Instead, he needs to be asking the Justice Department to end torture.

The only way to prevent a health care bill from becoming a big bailout of the insurance industry is to get these members on the record now, and make it impossible to back down even in the wake of tremendous pressure.

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HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey bill on Energy and Climate change passed the United States House of Representatives, 219-212. Eight Republicans voted with the majority, 44 Democrats voted against the bill (unofficial). Call it landmark, call it watered down, call it a strike against global warming, or a soft toss to the coal industry, this is major move forward for one of the President’s seminal policy initiatives.