I have several friends who are transgender so I have some understanding of what a struggle claiming your gender identity can be. This story warms my heart. What an incredible kid to be so willing to assert herself, and what incredible parents to be so thoroughly supportive. May a time come when [...]

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They only thing that could make this better is if it were Libby or one of the others who outed Plame.
An accused Washington madam apologized Monday to a former top state department official who abruptly resigned after being outed as one of her clients.

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Another bee lead. I pray this is the answer; it’s easy and manageable and doesn’t require any difficult lifestyle changes.
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the [...]

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Just an amusing little post about the “8 Deadly Sins of E-mail.” Or is it email. Can we have some final resolution on this?

(I hate waiting for delivery people, also…)

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for graduations.
I’ve always felt that graduation ceremonies are for graduates, their families and friends. That’s it. It’s their accomplishment that is being celebrated, their success at completing a program of higher education.
Colleges and universities don’t seem to believe that as much. It’s as if the institution has to take that one last bite at [...]

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Cernig has a good post up about the slow, hope-drainingly slow perhaps, peel-off of support of Bush’s Iraq folly disaster by Republican bloggers. In the next few months, I suspect we’ll be hearing a lot from them about “incompetence”… but regardless of reasoning, it’s peel-off.

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From Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern and others.

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How about that? Republicans are so depressed, they don’t even want to answer polls.

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I interviewed William Odum years ago, and he struck me then as an increasingly rare thing: a principled conservative. He still is, apparently.

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Jeff Jacoby, who seems incapable of actual thought:
Why is the Democratic Party so wedded to defeat in Iraq? What drives its determination to see this war end in American failure?

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Glenn Gould:

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Scientists are finding you can’t make “rational” decisions without emotion:
Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at USC, has played a pivotal role in challenging the old assumptions and establishing emotions as an important scientific subject. When Damasio first published his results in the early 1990s, most cognitive scientists assumed that emotions interfered with rational thought. A person [...]

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A couple of interesting posts.
I may have mentioned before that during the time of Bush I, there was a bill ready for his signature that would make it illegal to deny employment to someone on the basis of whether or not they had a degree - unless the degree was legally required for a certification. [...]

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Different Monica, different kind of stain:
These are new and updated USA documents which can be used with the media or friendlies. Please delete prior versions. .

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Americans got to feel good about themselves. So it was all worth it.

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Unbelievable. This is just criminal incompetence, which is what you’d expect when you replace all the career public servants with political hacks.

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One of my favorite Beatles bits:

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From “A Hard Day’s Night”:

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More on Randall “Randy” Tobias, who just resigned over a couple of “happy endings”:
Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”
Aid groups [...]

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For Randall Tobias, another BushCo icon:
ABC reported on its Web site late Friday that Tobias confirmed that he had called the Pamela Martin and Associates escort service to have women come to his condo and give him massages. More recently, Tobias told the network, he has been using a service with Central American women.
Tobias, 65, [...]

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Is it time we have a national discussion about the merits of the Navy’s Blue Angels? They’ve been around a long time - Nimitz ordered them started in 1946 to spur interest and funding in naval aviation - and I understand that they have entertainment value, but what is the real value to the Navy [...]

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How low can he go?

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They don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, that’s all:
WASHINGTON - Several hundred pages of e-mails to and from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, are being withheld from congressional investigators.
The documents, more than 600 pages in all, deal with responses to inquiries from members of Congress and reporters following the firings [...]

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And if pigs had wings, they could fly!
Patrick Toomey, president of the conservative group Club for Growth and a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, said, “It’s a simple and pragmatic calculation: The president’s numbers are very low. No candidate wants to be associated with the policies of a president who is this unpopular. If we [...]

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Looks like “West Wing” actress Melissa Fitzgerald, who played C.J.’s assistant Carol Fitzpatrick, (not C.J., as I posted earlier) might be running for the congressional seat a few miles down the road.

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Go get your Friday evening document dump groove on.

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I once got into a political argument with a dimwit who told me how informed she was because she read the New York Post every day.
Uh huh.

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If Clinton was such a lousy president, as Republicans would have us believe, why do they frequently cite him as justification every time they’re caught red handed, even when Clinton didn’t do it, too?
You never hear them say “Nixon did it, too” even though Bush’s presidency resembles Nixon’s much more than it does Clinton’s.

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Greg Palast:
IN AN E-MAIL uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove’s right-hand man, gloated that “no (U.S.) national press picked up” a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of African Americans in the 2004 [...]

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I didn’t get to see the debate last night, but it sure sounds like Mike Gravel is my kind of Democrat.

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