dailykos.com - 11/18/2008
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If there's an overriding theme to Taking on the System , my latest book, it's that we no longer have to sit around and wait for the gatekeepers to tell us what to do. We can engage in the world around us at our own discretion, focusing on the things we want to focus on, and no one can keep us ...
patterico.com - 11/20/2008
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Yesterday the blogger formerly known as RAWMUSLGLUTES (link
not safe for work) published the following embarrassing post:...
Cheney Indicted For abuse of prisoners . And some don’t believe God exists. As I (and others) pointed out , ...
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Sullivan Falls on His Ass, Claims: “I MEANT to Do ...
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Is Anarchy the Answer in Proposition 8 Protests?
Politics Daily —
... s that the gay-rights movement is lacking a strong leader to rally the troops in productive ways, and that the Human Rights Campaign certainly isn't doing the job. Daily Kos says the organization to defeat Prop 8 just wasn't there. ...
The Day The Music Died For The Human Rights Campaign
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Like so many other models of political organization, like the top-down Clinton campaign, the special interest group politics of an institution like the Human Rights Campaign is finished. They are no longer even faintly relevant to the struggle for gay equality. Markos Moulitsas: ...
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Eric Boehlert, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Firedoglake —
... So there's right vs. left, Democrats vs. Republican, the party in power vs. the loyal opposition-- and that's politics! But there's also gay Americans waking up to the shitty job their leading advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, did around Proposition 8 in California. Insiders vs. outsiders-- that's politics too. Unless you keep track of both simultaneously, you can't really understand the shifting political scene at any given time and it's really hard to understand big changes over time. ...
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