AJC takes appropriate stand on yesterday's "kissing" story.

Overkill, as Men at Work would say.

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Nice editorial about judicial nominations.

In a speech that appears to have been timed for the upcoming elections, President Bush attacked the Senate this week for having a "lousy record" of confirming his judicial nominees. The facts do not bear this out. The Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed 80 judges in its first 15 months in power - more than the Republican-led Senate confirmed in its final 30 months in control, from 1999 through the summer of 2001.

Also noted is the administrations knack for choosing people with terrible records on civil rights who tend to favor big business over judicial precedent. Then their is the abortion thing.

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Are we being just a little to politically correct?

A University of Tennessee fraternity has been suspended because of an incident last week in which white members painted their faces to look like the black pop group The Jackson Five.

If their had been maliciousness or intent to disparage I could see the problem. But can no white people now ever dress up as an African-American? I use to love Gladys Knight and the Pips, and watched their television show every week. Am I now not allowed to dress up as a Pip for Halloween, or a party? I can do the "backup singers dance." Can I dress up as Gladys? Uhh,... wait. Forget I said that.

Is it now wrong for a group of black guys to impersonate the Osmonds? Okay, like that would ever happen, but is it wrong?

I had even forgotten that Michael Jackson was ever black.

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T. Bogg is truly upset at what the Bush economic policies have reduced the American People to.

Upon opening the door I found two oddly dressed children standing on the porch with open bags and expectant looks on their faces. Needless to say, it immediately occurred to me that they were going door-to-door begging for food. I thought to myself, has the economy collapsed this much? Is this what we have come to? When I asked them if they were hungry, they glanced at each other with quizzical looks that I took to mean "duh...of course we're hungry". Thinking that they looked like they could use a hot meal, I asked if they would like to come in and have, maybe a grilled-cheese sandwich. At this point they nervously glanced toward the street and I saw what I assumed to be their parents standing on the sidewalk with anxious smiles looking toward us. How incredibly sad! These people had been reduced to taking their children out on a cold October night to beg for food!

Tom Bogg is one of the funniest bloggers out there. Why his blog is at the top of my blogrole. Go read his stuff. And give the poor children some food.

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Per due campaign uses debate blunder in ad criticizing Governor Barnes.

The Perdue ad shows Barnes saying in the debate: "Out of 20,000 children, you're going to have children die every day." Immediately after the debate, Barnes said he had misspoken. "No child dying in state custody is acceptable," he said.

Actually, children die every day. It would be natural for some of those to be in state custody.

To run an ad saying that our Governor finds children being hurt or dying through state mismanagement okay, is ludicrous. Barnes, a Democrat, has worked to improve the child welfare system. Through Barnes, more money is being funneled into the system, and more caseworkers hired. For Republicans like Perdue, who have historically gutted any child welfare system, to proclaim themselves as saviors is outrageous.

The really sad part is that many voter on the bubble may actually believe the ad. And most right wing hacks will try to use it as a club.

A bunch of tightly wound school administrators don't seem to understand Halloween.

The idea is to be distracting. And not letting Elvis go to class? I could understand if we were talking about Jerry Lee Lewis.

Probably better than her and her mother having to live in a shelter.

It is nice to see that her and her mother will not have to put up with the step-father's shit anymore. Sad to see that this will probably cause some emotional harm to her.

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