Stop using “rape” unless you’re talking about actual rape
Oh look! Yet another crazy letter from the local paper: Obama plan defies words When a woman says, “No”, but a man pays no heed to her wishes, it’s called rape. What is it called, when most U.S. citizens vociferously protest, “No!” and are ignored by President Obama and much of the Democratic Congress — [...]
Stay classy, teapartiers!
Oh holy crap. Last weekend, at a meeting of the “Lewis & Clark Tea Party Patriots” (in a town near here), a speaker named Dianne Capps said that Washington Senator Patty Murray: …should suffer the same fate as the character Jake in Lonesome Dove. “What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd?” [...]
Dear local newspaper: please step up your game. Thanks.
I don’t subscribe to The Spokesman-Review, my city’s newspaper, but I sometimes read parts of it online or flip through it when I’m at my parents’ house. Long ago, I learned that reading the Letters page will almost certainly make me frustrated, to put it mildly. Although it’s only a medium-sized city’s local newspaper, I [...]
This is important
So, let’s discuss Referendum 71. Although this piece of legislation is specific to Washington state, I think that it’s crucially important to raise awareness about this issue in general so that, whenever and wherever there is vehement opposition to legislation that would expand rights and protections for same-sex domestic partners, we can have the knowledge [...]
