One Utah

Someone in the State Senate should make sure he’s on his medication. I mean seriously, he’s an embarrassment - that someone this monumentally stupid keeps getting elected should give pause to the voters in his district.
From today’s Trib:
“I’m for the concept of the bill, but we don’t want outside organizations coming into schools [...]

The Battle of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, was fought a week ago. Despite the town’s symbolic importance as one of the centers of Taliban resistance, I don’t recall hearing or reading anything about this major battle in the U.S. media. Operations to secure the area continue.
In late September 2006, after months [...]

You want to know what I fucking hate about the family friendly enforcers here in the US who scream the roof down at every dirty word uttered in public?  Their sociopathic silence concerning the violence our “liberation” of Iraq has unleashed and the violence in the name of religion coming out of Iran or the [...]

James Dobson, the biggest shark in the fundie food chain, is sticking his fingers into the Republican presidential primary.  Based on this article in US News, I’m guessing Dobson has decided he wants Gingrich for President.  He has snubbed Fred Thompson, put the kibosh on Romney for his Mormonism, ignored Giuliani and has a less [...]

The 9/11 attacks came as a big shock, that’s an understatement. I was shocked all the more because the suicide attacks seemed utterly pointless– a costly, immoral symbolic act that accomplished nothing. That’s what it seemed like because we didn’t know the enemy. We have since learned that Al Qaeda had a [...]

From Doug Ireland.
For the very first time, an official United Nations human rights report released last week has confirmed the “violent campaigns” against Iraqi gays and the “assassinations of homosexuals in Iraq.”
The details are, unsurprisingly, depressingly familiar.
UNAMI Human Rights Office “was also alerted to the existence of religious courts, supervised by clerics, where alleged [...]

PBS Frontline - Return of The Taliban
This is a MUST SEE! You can watch it online or check TV schedule.

PBS Frontline - Return of The Taliban
Frontline never ceases to surprise and impress me. This program broadened my horizon far beyond anything I could have hoped to know about this part of the world. [...]