Month: April 2010

Guns Don’t Kill People

It’s true. A gun sitting alone in some gun store never killed anyone (especially if it wasn’t loaded). They just get used as the best tool for the job, is all, the job being to maim or kill living beings. Let’s...

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Singling Out Israel in Berkeley: 5 Reasons

This Wednesday, UC Berkeley’s Student Senate will vote to override its President’s veto of a measure that calls for the University of California “to divest from companies that profit from and enable...

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Simple Questions

Let me see. What makes us safer? Invading Iraq or this? Ukraine announced Monday that it has agreed to give up its highly enriched uranium, at the start of a summit called by President Obama to focus on protecting the...

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On Saturday, I witnessed history

…actually, given that I sang with the choir, maybe it’s more accurate to say that I took part in history. On Saturday, April 10, beginning at 4:30 in the afternoon, the first blessing of a same-sex union to take...

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Casual Observation

Republicans are consumed with fear that Obama will nominate a black woman or even a gay, handicapped, black woman, who’s an immigrant who’s a radical. It’s not gonna happen even if former Georgia Supreme Court...

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