Can somebody please explain to me why some Christians are so religiously insecure that they simply must have the words "Merry Christmas" broadcast at them from every nook and cranny of their lives? Bill O'Reilly and the nutty right seem to be absolutely horrified at the notion that someone might want to not assume everyone they meet celebrates Christmas. The phrase "Happy Holidays" is as offensive to them as "Seig Heil" would be to me.
I am more than a bit astonished and bewildered at this whole persecution complex that some on the loony Christian right have affected. The vast majority of people in this country are Christians, and American Christians enjoy more religious freedom than at any other time in history. Yet, along with their freedom OF religion, some Christians want freedom FROM people who aren't Christians, and ideas that don't fit into a very narrow Christian viewpoint.
Savvy Christian fundamentalist political operatives, many of whom now sit at the highest levels of power in this country, are taking advantage of this religious insecurity to trumpet the idea that the "secular" world is at war with Christianity, with traditional morality, whatever that means, with, *gasp* the nuclear family itself! They pine for a sort of mythical 1950s Utopia, where father knows best, where mother's in the kitchen baking cookies, and every God-fearing heterosexual white Christian family is holding hands singing kumbaya and ignoring the black family next door being bussed to a separate but unequal school.
These political operatives are so savvy that they're able to use an almost Orwellian strategy of claiming that those who have the most power in this country are actually persecuted outsiders. This "War on Christmas" is simply the latest incarnation of this tactic, which is also being used to attack the GLBT community, women who want reproductive freedom, people who don't want to be prayed at in public schools, scientists, and other threats to "traditional morality." By creating a conflict where none exists, Christian fundamentalist political operatives like Pat Robertson and James Dobson are able to keep their faithful supporters active and angry and willing to donate time and money to the effort to re-make America into a heterosexual Christian theocracy.
What the people who are victims of this propaganda war, the families who have been duped by these theocratic con artists, don't realize is that the people on the other side of the war aren't actually fighting it. Gay people don't want to force anything on straight people or break up their marriages. We just want to be left alone and allowed to participate in society as equals. Pro-choice women aren't going around ripping babies out of the wombs of God-fearing Christian mothers. They just want the freedom to control their own bodies. Science teachers aren't trying to burn Bibles and tell you that you can't believe the world was created in 6 days. They just want to teach children about, you know, scientific facts, like gravity, and evolution.
In the same way, non-Christians aren't going around putting a gun to anyone's head making them say "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas. We frankly don't care what you say to us when we enter a store. Hey, here's an idea. Why not just say "Hello, welcome to our store?"
So my message to all of the poor persecuted Christians who control America is this: just shut up. Leave me alone, go have your Christmas, and let me live my life in peace, free from your whining about how insecure you are about your own religion that you have to force it on me. I'll be over here living my own life, as a Jew, someone who knows a little something about being persecuted, and being secure enough in my own religion that I frankly don't care if you wish me a "Merry Christmas" or a "Happy Holidays" when I walk into Target to buy yet another incredibly cheap sweater.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
Breaking news: Peres to leave labor, join Sharon's Kadima Party
According to the Jerusalem Post (link to story above), Shimon Peres, longtime leader of the Israeli Labor Party and highly respected political figure, has decided to leave Labor and join Ariel Sharon's new Kadima party.
Rumors about this had been circulating since Sharon decided to break with Likud, but nobody knew until today that Peres would actually bolt Labor.
Notwithstanding the peculiarities of the deal that led to Peres' decision to leave Labor, his departure marks another huge shift in Israeli politics and a further marginalization of both of the two parties that, until a few weeks ago, had dominated Israeli politics for decades.
With Peres' departure from Labor, Sharon's party, now known as Kadima, which is Hebrew for "Forward," is virtually assured a solid, convincing, I daresay overwhelming victory in the March elections. Likud and Labor will both be extremely marginalized as both will be led by ideologues, Netanyahu on the right and Peretz on the left. Labor is especially vulnerable to almost total political collapse if Peretz refuses to join a Kadima government, as Meretz/Yachad, to the left of Labor, has already stated its intention to join Sharon's coalition should the elections go Kadima's way.
This is a huge moment in Israeli politics and could signal a major shift in the political dynamics of the conflict with the Palestinians and the relationship of Israel to the Arab world as a whole. I never thought I'd see the day when a militant hawk like Sharon and a respected dove like Peres would find themselves moving to the center and joining forces. I wish this new party the best of luck in finding the true center of Israeli politics, and with it, a pragmatic and reasonable solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
Rumors about this had been circulating since Sharon decided to break with Likud, but nobody knew until today that Peres would actually bolt Labor.
Notwithstanding the peculiarities of the deal that led to Peres' decision to leave Labor, his departure marks another huge shift in Israeli politics and a further marginalization of both of the two parties that, until a few weeks ago, had dominated Israeli politics for decades.
With Peres' departure from Labor, Sharon's party, now known as Kadima, which is Hebrew for "Forward," is virtually assured a solid, convincing, I daresay overwhelming victory in the March elections. Likud and Labor will both be extremely marginalized as both will be led by ideologues, Netanyahu on the right and Peretz on the left. Labor is especially vulnerable to almost total political collapse if Peretz refuses to join a Kadima government, as Meretz/Yachad, to the left of Labor, has already stated its intention to join Sharon's coalition should the elections go Kadima's way.
This is a huge moment in Israeli politics and could signal a major shift in the political dynamics of the conflict with the Palestinians and the relationship of Israel to the Arab world as a whole. I never thought I'd see the day when a militant hawk like Sharon and a respected dove like Peres would find themselves moving to the center and joining forces. I wish this new party the best of luck in finding the true center of Israeli politics, and with it, a pragmatic and reasonable solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
Monday, November 21, 2005
The blog that cried "I procrastinate!"
Yeah, so a couple of weeks ago I posted that this blog was going to be back up and running and I would be spewing forth great gobs of gratuitous goofy g...ok I'm out of "g" words. Then I disappeared again. Well, a lot has happened since then and I'm itching to get some thoughts down on this cyber-paper before the stories get cold and start to congeal on my computer screen thus making it difficult for me to...ok enough strangled metaphors.
The point is, a lot of shit has happened lately. A lot of big shit. And there's a lot to talk about. So let's get to it.
First issue: the budget. The Republigrinch who stole Christmas. The Repugnant Party has decided that their priorities should be to take school lunches, Medicaid and food stamps away from poor people and give rich people even more of a tax break. No surprise there.
The new thing--and this is big--is that the few remaining sensible people in the Republican Party aren't letting Tom Delay chain them to a radical agenda anymore. Because he's not in charge anymore. So for once, the moderate faction of the Republican Party, also known as the Republican Party, has started throwing its weight around. As a result, the budget only passed by two votes, and the psycho anti-Robin Hood clique had to work their platinum-plated asses off to get those votes.
This in a heavily Republican-dominated Congress.
Of course, another issue to consider is that all of these Representatives are going to be up for re-election in '06, and the President's agenda is so repugnant to so many Americans at this point that Republicans are running away from it in droves.
Hah.
I like this stuff.
Now, here's where this story and the next story link up. The next story is about Ariel Sharon abandoning the Likud Party and starting a new, "centrist" party that can hopefully capture the majority of the Israeli political populace with ...imagine this...real, moderate, reasonable ideas about the Palestinian situation, the economy, and other stuff.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a party like that here? Such a party would count among its members Olympia Snowe, John McCain, John Murtha, Barbara Boxer and other good people from the center-right to the center-left, who are fed up with the brownshirt liars running the Republican Party and the equivocating weenies who seem to be the majority of voices coming from the Democrats.
And I'll tell you one thing--if, after what this Administration has done to this country, the Democrats can't pull out a huge victory in '06, they're just...done. And it'll be time to think like Ariel Sharon and start organizing a new party along reasonable, moderate lines.
Yeah, who ever thought a radical lefty leftist like myself would be advocating moderation and centrism? Certainly not me. But here we are. Left and right are at each other's throats and it's time for someone to come in and break up the fight, find some common ground and tone down the viciousness of modern political discourse.
Ok then...onto...
Issue 2: Ariel Sharon and the Prisoner of Likudskaban. Well, he's broken out of the prison of nationalistic right-wing Israeli politics, and now he's going to form a new, centrist party tentatively titled the National Responsibility Party. Not very catchy--I have a feeling that'll change a few times before it's finalized.
Here's the deal. Ariel Sharon used to be the enemy of all that is sacred to those of us on the reasonable side of Progressive Zionism. He was the architect of the settler movement, he was an ultra-nationalist, and when he first got into office he was faithful to his hawkish ways and did some really nasty things, thus worsening an already out of control Intifada that he helped to create.
But then, somehow, somewhere, he realized that something wasn't working. Now I'm not going to rehash what I said in my "Why Ariel Sharon Is the Best Hope for Israel" shpiel, because you've read that already. Haven't you? Ok, go scroll down on this blog, find it, read it, and come back. I'll wait.
Ok, you've read it? Because I pretty much still stand by it. Ariel Sharon is in the best possible position that any Israeli leader could be in this day and age. He is a leader from the right, the people who didn't want to engage with the Palestinians on any meaningful level except bombing them and trying to eradicate the terrorists. And he's managed to drag these people kicking and screaming over to the center. This in itself is astonishing.
But now he has a real chance to unite Israel behind a reasonable, moderate and pragmatic vision, a centrist party that can capture the best slices out of the arguments on both sides. If he pulls it off, he might just be able to do what Yitzhak Rabin and so many other Israeli heroes couldn't: build a peaceful, two-state solution that protects Israel's security as a homeland for the Jews, and gives the Palestinians a democratic state that can finally rid itself of terrorist groups that will become irrelevant and discredited.
All this thanks to the bumbling of the Labor Party, which incidentally I used to support. By electing Peretz as its leader, the Labor Party has doomed itself into irrelevancy forever. Sharon has way too much political capital to be toppled by a charismatic union leader with very little political experience. Peretz is the best thing to happen to Sharon since he beat Netanyahu's factions in the Likud elections a few months ago.
Bottom line: Sharon will win the March elections in a landslide. The few Labor MPs that are elected will join Sharon in coalition, and both the far left and the far right will be marginalized like they never have been before. All of which is extremely good for both Israel and the Palestinians.
Well, that's enough for now. Signing off without a catchphrase, this is lefthook.
The point is, a lot of shit has happened lately. A lot of big shit. And there's a lot to talk about. So let's get to it.
First issue: the budget. The Republigrinch who stole Christmas. The Repugnant Party has decided that their priorities should be to take school lunches, Medicaid and food stamps away from poor people and give rich people even more of a tax break. No surprise there.
The new thing--and this is big--is that the few remaining sensible people in the Republican Party aren't letting Tom Delay chain them to a radical agenda anymore. Because he's not in charge anymore. So for once, the moderate faction of the Republican Party, also known as the Republican Party, has started throwing its weight around. As a result, the budget only passed by two votes, and the psycho anti-Robin Hood clique had to work their platinum-plated asses off to get those votes.
This in a heavily Republican-dominated Congress.
Of course, another issue to consider is that all of these Representatives are going to be up for re-election in '06, and the President's agenda is so repugnant to so many Americans at this point that Republicans are running away from it in droves.
Hah.
I like this stuff.
Now, here's where this story and the next story link up. The next story is about Ariel Sharon abandoning the Likud Party and starting a new, "centrist" party that can hopefully capture the majority of the Israeli political populace with ...imagine this...real, moderate, reasonable ideas about the Palestinian situation, the economy, and other stuff.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a party like that here? Such a party would count among its members Olympia Snowe, John McCain, John Murtha, Barbara Boxer and other good people from the center-right to the center-left, who are fed up with the brownshirt liars running the Republican Party and the equivocating weenies who seem to be the majority of voices coming from the Democrats.
And I'll tell you one thing--if, after what this Administration has done to this country, the Democrats can't pull out a huge victory in '06, they're just...done. And it'll be time to think like Ariel Sharon and start organizing a new party along reasonable, moderate lines.
Yeah, who ever thought a radical lefty leftist like myself would be advocating moderation and centrism? Certainly not me. But here we are. Left and right are at each other's throats and it's time for someone to come in and break up the fight, find some common ground and tone down the viciousness of modern political discourse.
Ok then...onto...
Issue 2: Ariel Sharon and the Prisoner of Likudskaban. Well, he's broken out of the prison of nationalistic right-wing Israeli politics, and now he's going to form a new, centrist party tentatively titled the National Responsibility Party. Not very catchy--I have a feeling that'll change a few times before it's finalized.
Here's the deal. Ariel Sharon used to be the enemy of all that is sacred to those of us on the reasonable side of Progressive Zionism. He was the architect of the settler movement, he was an ultra-nationalist, and when he first got into office he was faithful to his hawkish ways and did some really nasty things, thus worsening an already out of control Intifada that he helped to create.
But then, somehow, somewhere, he realized that something wasn't working. Now I'm not going to rehash what I said in my "Why Ariel Sharon Is the Best Hope for Israel" shpiel, because you've read that already. Haven't you? Ok, go scroll down on this blog, find it, read it, and come back. I'll wait.
Ok, you've read it? Because I pretty much still stand by it. Ariel Sharon is in the best possible position that any Israeli leader could be in this day and age. He is a leader from the right, the people who didn't want to engage with the Palestinians on any meaningful level except bombing them and trying to eradicate the terrorists. And he's managed to drag these people kicking and screaming over to the center. This in itself is astonishing.
But now he has a real chance to unite Israel behind a reasonable, moderate and pragmatic vision, a centrist party that can capture the best slices out of the arguments on both sides. If he pulls it off, he might just be able to do what Yitzhak Rabin and so many other Israeli heroes couldn't: build a peaceful, two-state solution that protects Israel's security as a homeland for the Jews, and gives the Palestinians a democratic state that can finally rid itself of terrorist groups that will become irrelevant and discredited.
All this thanks to the bumbling of the Labor Party, which incidentally I used to support. By electing Peretz as its leader, the Labor Party has doomed itself into irrelevancy forever. Sharon has way too much political capital to be toppled by a charismatic union leader with very little political experience. Peretz is the best thing to happen to Sharon since he beat Netanyahu's factions in the Likud elections a few months ago.
Bottom line: Sharon will win the March elections in a landslide. The few Labor MPs that are elected will join Sharon in coalition, and both the far left and the far right will be marginalized like they never have been before. All of which is extremely good for both Israel and the Palestinians.
Well, that's enough for now. Signing off without a catchphrase, this is lefthook.
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Alito and other stuff
Well, it's as we feared. Bush has nominated a Scaliasolini to the Supreme Court. It's up to good progressives to do what we can to fight this nomination tooth and nail and make sure he goes down in flames like Robert Bork.
Several groups have petitions online. I signed the one put out by moveon.org.
I'm pretty terrified that this country is about to take a hard right turn. And considering how far right we are at the moment, that's not good. We can only hope that the Democrats show enough chutzpah to block this nomination. I'm all for a filibuster.
A couple of other things:
--Last week George Takei (Star Trek's Sulu) came out. I just wanted to acknowledge that and welcome him to the club. He'll be receiving his party pack soon.
--Israel is waging an all-out war on Hamas. I'm hopeful that since Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, Hamas will lose credibility when it tries to fight the "Zionist occupation" since, well, there isn't much of an occupation anymore, at least in Gaza. We need to get out of the West Bank, and soon. The sooner we do everything the Palestinians claim they want us to do, the sooner the terrorist factions lose international credibility with their reasoning for attacking Israelis. And once the terrorists lose credibility, the terrorists lose. Then we can start talking about peaceful coexistence.
Hope everyone had a happy Halloween. I had no trick-or-treaters at my abode, which was actually pretty nice for a change. Instead, my partner and I curled up on the couch and watched Ringu 2, which is a far better, but still very confusing and disjointed, film than its American counterpart.
Till next time, this is lefthook, signing out without a catchphrase.
Several groups have petitions online. I signed the one put out by moveon.org.
I'm pretty terrified that this country is about to take a hard right turn. And considering how far right we are at the moment, that's not good. We can only hope that the Democrats show enough chutzpah to block this nomination. I'm all for a filibuster.
A couple of other things:
--Last week George Takei (Star Trek's Sulu) came out. I just wanted to acknowledge that and welcome him to the club. He'll be receiving his party pack soon.
--Israel is waging an all-out war on Hamas. I'm hopeful that since Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, Hamas will lose credibility when it tries to fight the "Zionist occupation" since, well, there isn't much of an occupation anymore, at least in Gaza. We need to get out of the West Bank, and soon. The sooner we do everything the Palestinians claim they want us to do, the sooner the terrorist factions lose international credibility with their reasoning for attacking Israelis. And once the terrorists lose credibility, the terrorists lose. Then we can start talking about peaceful coexistence.
Hope everyone had a happy Halloween. I had no trick-or-treaters at my abode, which was actually pretty nice for a change. Instead, my partner and I curled up on the couch and watched Ringu 2, which is a far better, but still very confusing and disjointed, film than its American counterpart.
Till next time, this is lefthook, signing out without a catchphrase.
Friday, October 28, 2005
One down, quite a few to go
Scooter Libby has just resigned following his five-count indictment for obstruction of justice, perjury and other niceties.
I just want to remind all of those Republicans who are about to dismiss these charges as "minor" of what happened to President Clinton.
He lied under oath about sex, something that didn't affect anyone in America directly except for the President, his family, and one White House intern, and he was IMPEACHED for it. By right-wing shmendricks.
Scooter Libby lied under oath about something having to do with the leak of a CIA agent's name, something that jeopardized not only the career, but the LIFE, of Valerie Plame. Not only that, but it jeopardized whatever intelligence-gathering that Valerie Plame was doing when she was outed. And that could cause more problems down the line that we can't even see right now.
So I don't want to hear any of you right-wing talk show hosts or other pundits talking about how "minor" these charges are, unless you're also prepared to admit that President Clinton did absolutely nothing wrong, and in fact was a real saint, in comparison.
These are big charges. If he's convicted, Scooter Libby will be going to jail for up to 30 years. And we don't even know yet whether Karl Rove is going to be indicted. We've just started to fall down this rabbit hole, and we don't know what's at the bottom...
I just want to remind all of those Republicans who are about to dismiss these charges as "minor" of what happened to President Clinton.
He lied under oath about sex, something that didn't affect anyone in America directly except for the President, his family, and one White House intern, and he was IMPEACHED for it. By right-wing shmendricks.
Scooter Libby lied under oath about something having to do with the leak of a CIA agent's name, something that jeopardized not only the career, but the LIFE, of Valerie Plame. Not only that, but it jeopardized whatever intelligence-gathering that Valerie Plame was doing when she was outed. And that could cause more problems down the line that we can't even see right now.
So I don't want to hear any of you right-wing talk show hosts or other pundits talking about how "minor" these charges are, unless you're also prepared to admit that President Clinton did absolutely nothing wrong, and in fact was a real saint, in comparison.
These are big charges. If he's convicted, Scooter Libby will be going to jail for up to 30 years. And we don't even know yet whether Karl Rove is going to be indicted. We've just started to fall down this rabbit hole, and we don't know what's at the bottom...
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Welcome to lefthook
Welcome to lefthook, a stunningly insightful look at modern politics and the world around us. I am your host, Ethan J., and I will be captaining this left-handed political gondola, occasionally stopping to create stupid, cheesy metaphors that cause you to grimace and hate me.
Well, I hope that doesn't happen too often.
Feel free to browse through posts that I wrote back in the early days, way back in mid-2005, when this blog was The Left Hand, a somewhat less cleverly titled but startlingly similar blog.
My goal is to post as often as possible, or at least as often as something I read in the paper or on the news strikes my fancy or pisses me off or causes me to jump up and down in a blind stomping rage. Better to stomp on a keyboard than a cat, I say.
So off we go...
First topic: the withdrawal of Harriet Miers.
I don't think anyone's saying this, so I might as well be the paranoid conspiracy guy for once.
What if the administration set up Harriet Miers to fail from the beginning? The theory goes like this. Nominate someone blatantly, stunningly, blisteringly unqualified for the post, and then when everyone complains, including the all-important right wing of the Republican Party, have the nominee "conveniently" withdraw. Then, to "appease the base," nominate someone with a judicial philosophy somewhere between Scalia and Mussolini, and be praised by your Evangelical fan club, who are so "relieved" about the Miers nomination collapse, for your "brave choice."
Meanwhile, news that Tom Delay, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and other top administration officials might be going down in flames is pushed somewhat to the side of the picture while everyone scrambles to interpret this breaking judicial "news."
I'm not saying this is what happened, nor am I saying that I have any concrete evidence that Miers was set up as a fall...gal, but I am saying that I wouldn't put it past those creeps to do something slimy like that. That's all I'm saying. They're slimy. Slimy slimy slimeballs from the planet slime.
Then again, why didn't Bush just nominate a Mussolini-Scalia monster to begin with? He has the "political capital" to play with--controlling the House, Senate and the White House--so why bother playing a political game in the first place? Maybe I'm overthinking this situation and it was just another example of the "hey, I like you, so even though you're completely unqualified for this position, I'm going to nominate you for it anyway" modus operandi of this administration that worked so well with "Brownie" and others.
In any event, this administration is doing a "heck of a job." Really.
In other news, a new poll released says that if we held an election this year, Bush would LOSE TO A DEMOCRAT!!! Ok, so, um, Let's DO IT. Sigh...I wish. Hey, anyone up for a massive nationwide "recall the President" ballot initiative?
Ok, that's all for me tonight folks, till next time, this is lefthook, signing out without a catchphrase...
Well, I hope that doesn't happen too often.
Feel free to browse through posts that I wrote back in the early days, way back in mid-2005, when this blog was The Left Hand, a somewhat less cleverly titled but startlingly similar blog.
My goal is to post as often as possible, or at least as often as something I read in the paper or on the news strikes my fancy or pisses me off or causes me to jump up and down in a blind stomping rage. Better to stomp on a keyboard than a cat, I say.
So off we go...
First topic: the withdrawal of Harriet Miers.
I don't think anyone's saying this, so I might as well be the paranoid conspiracy guy for once.
What if the administration set up Harriet Miers to fail from the beginning? The theory goes like this. Nominate someone blatantly, stunningly, blisteringly unqualified for the post, and then when everyone complains, including the all-important right wing of the Republican Party, have the nominee "conveniently" withdraw. Then, to "appease the base," nominate someone with a judicial philosophy somewhere between Scalia and Mussolini, and be praised by your Evangelical fan club, who are so "relieved" about the Miers nomination collapse, for your "brave choice."
Meanwhile, news that Tom Delay, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and other top administration officials might be going down in flames is pushed somewhat to the side of the picture while everyone scrambles to interpret this breaking judicial "news."
I'm not saying this is what happened, nor am I saying that I have any concrete evidence that Miers was set up as a fall...gal, but I am saying that I wouldn't put it past those creeps to do something slimy like that. That's all I'm saying. They're slimy. Slimy slimy slimeballs from the planet slime.
Then again, why didn't Bush just nominate a Mussolini-Scalia monster to begin with? He has the "political capital" to play with--controlling the House, Senate and the White House--so why bother playing a political game in the first place? Maybe I'm overthinking this situation and it was just another example of the "hey, I like you, so even though you're completely unqualified for this position, I'm going to nominate you for it anyway" modus operandi of this administration that worked so well with "Brownie" and others.
In any event, this administration is doing a "heck of a job." Really.
In other news, a new poll released says that if we held an election this year, Bush would LOSE TO A DEMOCRAT!!! Ok, so, um, Let's DO IT. Sigh...I wish. Hey, anyone up for a massive nationwide "recall the President" ballot initiative?
Ok, that's all for me tonight folks, till next time, this is lefthook, signing out without a catchphrase...
Monday, October 17, 2005
This blog is about to be re-launched
This blog is about to be re-launched as Left HOOK (the Left Hand Of OKlahoma). So stay tuned for our spunky new logo, coming soon, and fresh, crispy, succulent new political musings from blogmaster Ethan J.
On a related note, domain name acquisition is on hold at the moment as it's bloody expensive and complicated.
If you're reading this blog for the first time, here's some background. It was started as The Left Hand way back in the summer of 2005 by a guy who really wants to be like Al Franken, Molly Ivins and other political wonks who get paid to write about and tell people what they think about the issues of the day. Unfortunately, this guy tended to become sidetracked by, well, life, and so this blog fell into disuse. I am now committed to making this damned blog thing work, because I think I'm a good writer, and I think I have some good things to contribute. So there.
On a related note, domain name acquisition is on hold at the moment as it's bloody expensive and complicated.
If you're reading this blog for the first time, here's some background. It was started as The Left Hand way back in the summer of 2005 by a guy who really wants to be like Al Franken, Molly Ivins and other political wonks who get paid to write about and tell people what they think about the issues of the day. Unfortunately, this guy tended to become sidetracked by, well, life, and so this blog fell into disuse. I am now committed to making this damned blog thing work, because I think I'm a good writer, and I think I have some good things to contribute. So there.
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