I *heart* Rachel Maddow!

Rachel Maddow ExposesRacist Origins of [Arizona's] SB1070



"Congratulations Arizona. This is going to make you really really famous for a really really long time."

Some states have forward-thinking lawmakers, and some have, well...Betty Brown:

Texas Lawmaker Suggests Asians Adopt Easier Names

A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”

Because people of Asian descent aren't really Americans, right?

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” (Rep. Betty) Brown said.

Get out of town. For real?

How about putting some effort in to educate yourself and learn to accept and represent your full community? Betty Brown, you insult all Americans with this crap. With the election of an African-American president with decidedly non-Anglo first and last names, this is even more ridiculous.

Oi, I'm sure Betty Brown is glad I have my Dad's German last name -- no problems there, ever (riiiiight) -- and not my mom's phonetic Japanese last name.

I said it once, and I'll say it again, as it often sadly rings true -- you don't have to pass an IQ test to be [a public servant].

This has got to be a joke. Or an ironic Dadaist art project for some super-jaded art students. Right?

In Houston, a Texan protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can't master English doesn't deserve to live in America.

Oh Oklahoma, I know it's unlikely, but please please join the 21st century and salvage some bit of basic humanity by booting this woman's ass to the curb.



Forget about her ridiculous ideas that gay people wanting civil rights and equal protection under the law are the "cancer in the little toe" of America (haha, gotta love it!) and that this is "worse than terrorism" for a moment. What about calling Islam -- not fundamentalist extremism -- a threat to a nation that was built on religious freedom?

What about your fundamentalist extremist Christian agenda, Ms. Sally Kern, State Representative for Oklahoma? Is it to eliminate other religions in this country, eliminate separation of church and state? Indoctrinate the children so that they think exactly like you want them to, and trash who your god (who is weeping, mind you) deems unfit? I think so.

What if I agreed with you and let you go to town on the gay "cancer" in the United States, the gay "indoctrination" of the children? And looked the other way while millions of gays and other "undesirables" (obviously Muslims, but why not Jews? The disabled? Uppity women? And race traitors and their progeny, like me) were eliminated because, dammit, they were destroying our country? My, what a strong, beautiful -- and most important, enduring -- nation we would have, Ms. Sally Kern.

Oh wait, that already happened somewhere. Nazi Germany.

Heehee, listen up! The Vatican's office for "migrants and itinerant people" has put forth the Driver's Ten Commandments.

Yes! All my grumbling about those special places in hell for, well, virtually half of the driving populace, is finally getting some recognition. Benedict, you alright.

Actually, the "commandments" are quite nice, and I agree with most of them, but I still crack a smile every time I think about it. Mostly because of number 5, and because they recommend saying a prayer before you take off and the rosary whilst driving. But I suppose that last one couldn't hurt, especially around where I live, smack dab in the middle of the top three worst commutes in the Bay Area.

Speaking of driving, I am very stoked to find out that I will be in the hometown the weekend of "The Hottest Little Fair in California" and that I will quite possibly get to attend my first destruction derby and monster truck show.

All of my best memories of the fair in my hometown revolve around endless rides on the Gravitron, almost throwing up on the Tilt-A-Whirl in eighth grade whilst hanging out with high school boys (sigh), my preschool-aged sister rocking the Ferris Wheel when I was maybe 5 until I almost died from fright, and just barely losing out on taking home a Judas Priest mirror on the midway.


















Still smarting about that last one (I am! Be worth a fortune now...)

But with all my corndogs eaten and condemned goldfish won and awkward junior high glances at high school boys, I never went to the car and truck events. Better suited appearance-wise to the goths, punks, mods, and stoners as a high school student, I didn't dare cross the threshold into the holiest of holy redneck territories. But no more. I am there this year!