Orcinus, April 23, 2009 Run your bank into the ground? Hey, it was our fault for not keeping a better eye on you. Here’s some cash. Since you’re rich guys, we trust you to do the right thing going forward, so we’re not going to bother you with a bunch of rules and oversight—but you …
Author Archives: Sara Robinson
Closer to Home
Orcinus, March 14, 2009 Last summer’s church shooting in Knoxville, TN hit close to home for me. As a Unitarian Universalist — and a liberal — the idea that the right wing’s eliminationist rage toward the left would end up in the death of two members of my own tribe wasn’t unexpected; but it …
“Know This If Nothing Else: This Was A Hate Crime”
Orcinus, February 10, 2009 Photo by J. Miles Cary of the Knoxville News Progressives around the country can breathe a little easier today: James Adkisson has been sentenced to life behind bars for the deaths of Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger, the Unitarian Universalist martyrs who died during his assault on their church in Knoxville, …
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Aretha’s Hat
Wasn’t that a thing? A millenary confection in grey felt, glittering with rhinestones, trimmed in black grosgrain. My. Oh my. I’m hearing from white friends who thought it was, well, tacky and overdone. I think they missed the point entirely. Aretha’s hat was a full-on diva crown, in the best African-American Sunday Suit tradition. Hats …
More Maroons in Federal Way
Orcinus, January 16, 2009 Back in 2007, the school administrators in the working-class Seattle suburb of Federal Way found themselves on the wrong end of Jon Stewart’s wit when they refused to allow An Inconvenient Truth to be shown in their classrooms because the movie was “controversial.” The same maroons are back at it again …
Breaking News: BC’s FLDS Patriarch Arrested for Polygamy
Orcinus, January 9, 2009 Photo of Winston Blackmore by Ian Smith of the Vancouver Sun The Canadian press has erupted in the last hour or so with the news that former Bountiful, BC polygamist Mormon patriarch Winston Blackmore and his second-in-command Fred Oler have been arrested and charged with polygamy. Blackmore ran the Bountiful compound …
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Investing in America
Group News Blog, December 7, 2008 A huge sinkhole, already one of the largest on record, near Daisetta, TX, May 2008. James Nielsen/Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press In the comments threads for the next article down, we’ve got one trollish commenter who rejects Keynesian theory, and insists that the only way out of the current …
Election Night: The View from Abroad
Group News Blog, November 10, 2008 I watched the election returns from a cozy townhouse in North Vancouver, BC. A Canadian couple from our church had invited in all their American friends to share the evening. Eight years of Bush has been an impossibly hard burden for all Americans. For those of us who’ve spend …
Lying Liars, Part 13,417
Group News Blog, November 4, 2008 This e-mail was sent out yesterday to Farm Bureau members in Washington State, where Governor Christine Gregoire — who won her seat by 133 votes after several recounts in 2004 (and if that story doesn’t send you straight out to the polls, you are beyond hope) — is once …
Let Them Wear Valentino, Part Deux
Group News Blog, October 24, 2008 Jeff Foxworthy has a venerable routine about why you can’t give rednecks money. They’ll invest the funds in commemorative ceramic plates of NASCAR drivers, he insists. They’ll build a new room onto the trailer “so we don’t have to sleep with Jim’s daddy no more,” he drawls. When he …