The first black president avoids talking race like his life depends on it - which may actually be the case. It should show how pathological racialism is on the right - they are having these conversations literally with themselves.

But we got money for the war(s).

I'm a little unsure of them having contacted 100,000 people but I fully believe that many people would be okay with leaving this messed up planet.

I wonder why!

From Peter Hitchens, Christopher's brother:

You have to read between the lines here and realize that the article is really a finely worded complaint piece by conservatives about the inclusiveness of modern universities - which racist WASPs apparently see as "political correctness." 

However, there is a question worth asking about the validity of universities. I told a friend who taught at Berkeley that I didn't feel like I learned anything vital when I was in school - nothing I couldn't have learned anywhere else. He didn't argue at all - just said, "How do you think that makes me feel?"

In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects o

Just imagine if all personal behavior that white people engaged in was politicized and used against them as it has been for blacks in this country for 150 years. Oh man.

Well, that is significant.

Update - I thought I would add my comments since one of the Michaels was nice enough to spotlight my post. What really stood out to me about this news was that the Pope was so off the cuff and direct about his renouncing homophobia.

There's no big announcement or talking about weighing both sides - he just says "Who am I to judge?" That is from the anointed leader of the largest, and by definition most conservative, sect of Christianity. He represents one billion people.

It's important to remember that this sort of events happen because people in this country choose to live like this.

"Dramatic progress." So here is some really good news!