Friday, January 03, 2003

Two hurt by Abbey axeman. An axeman injures two people before causing damage valued at £200,000 in Waltham Abbey. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] This is just strange - a guy going on a rampage with an axe? In a church? Huh?
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Wonderful...it's snowing like mad out. Sometimes, I hate winter. Ah well...off to go grocery shopping. Of course, I forgot to do this LAST night, before the "Oh no! It's snowing!" mob descended. Now it'll take me forever to park, check out, etc...but I need food. Argh.
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A Sect Shuns Lettuce and Gives the Devil His Due. It proves tricky to extract a straight answer from the Yazidis, who are ethnically Kurds, when it comes to what, exactly, defines their sect. By Neil Macfarquhar. [New York Times: International] In summary: Northern Iraq is a weird, weird place, with lots of weird, weird microcultures. Good reading.
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President To Seek Dividend Tax Cut [Washington Post: Front Page] ...because it's not like we're DEFICIT SPENDING ALREADY or anything...
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From the comments to a post I made yesterday, linking to an article at the American Prospect on the lack of Democratic women candidates for president: Good article at Prospect, thanks. One female Dem I'd like to see run for POTUS is Jennifer Granholm, new governor of Michigan -- but she was born in Canada, can't run for Prez. Damn shame. That's from your friend and mine, Rayne, by the way. But it reminds me: we really should just hurry up and annex Canada. It'd move the US to the left...while Canada isn't Sweden, it's definitely not Christian Coalition country. Sure, there's the nutty conservatives in the prairie provinces, but they're much less significant than British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. Plus, Granholm could then run for president. =)

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In an article at Salon today on the radical religious right's power in Washington today (sorry, it's Salon Premium - go subscribe! Good reading!), there's a reference to Jerry Falwell's presidential expectations for the next two elections: George W. re-elected in 2004...and then Jeb Bush elected in 2008. Gah. That's so repulsive it's not even funny. The whole article made me feel sick - these nutcases have hijacked the agenda to the point where I honestly don't expect Roe v. Wade to still be on the books within a couple years - but the idea of electing ANOTHER Bush is just terrifying. This is supposed to be a democracy, right? Someone PLEASE get McCain to switch parties and run for president. I'm afraid that he may be our only hope for getting the Bush Junta out of office...

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