Thanks, Dad.

Thank you, for everything, and I’m really sorry you never felt like you could tell me the stories. I would have listened. I would have loved you.

Terrorism has no religion

And thanks, Mike the Heathen, for the photo.

We built it

For more on the construction of the White House, go here.

Is it racist if no one objects?

This was a discussion I found myself in recently: Say a group of like-minded folk are sitting around, and one of them starts to spout off with what in another group would be considered racist, hateful speech (you pick a target for an example; I simply haven’t the heart). (And yes, I realize this is …

Who’s the bigger threat? Al Qaeda? Or homegrown nut jobs?

When it comes to domestic attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, the bigger threat is homegrown nut jobs. Like this guy.

This is my governor, and his wife, a former director of a sexual assault crisis center

Rock on, Dannel and Cathy Malloy. And thanks, Anna, for sending this along. If you want more information, go here.

Write your own cutline

You can read more here.

Beyond the viral internet video…

Antoine Dodson, Viral internet video, Sexual assault, Black community

A history lesson for Bro. Newt

Cordoba House, Newt Gingrich, Yale graduate student, History

Sarah Palin, religious leader?

Sarah Palin, Mosque, Ground Zero, Ignorant