A digest of stuff I wanted to post but The Big Gay Weekend in Phoenix didn’t let me get to them.
1. Pride Festival Was a blast as always and I was working it getting signatures for Dem candidates. You don’t usually get much resistance while collecting petition signatures in this crowd. “Hi, I’m collecting signatures to get (Dem candidate) on the ballot to run against (Republican incumbent)…” The words are no sooner out of your [...]
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”
That’s the subtitle to a pivotal article by Peggy McIntosh, who in the late 80s while working as a researcher on women’s studies, sought to develop a better understanding of white privilege and male privilege. Her work led her to write White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, which you can read here, along with a [...]
Cheap, sordid, tawdry affairs.
I’m looking right at you, Mayor Gordon. No, not because of your girlfriend, but for who you immediately got into bed with when it began to look like you might face scrutiny for certain financial transactions associated with the relationship. Jason Rose??!? Rose has been a busy little turd-polishing flack these days. Just last Saturday [...]
I happen to like milk with my toast.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a lot of love for the New Times. The free weekly has been a godsend for its brave reporting on subjects that Phoenix’s so-called paper of record won’t touch with a 10 foot pole. And I don’t expect them to be the mouthpiece for Arizona Democrats the way the [...]
You’re as sick as your secrets, Joel
Yesterday the Capitol Times reported that MCSO Captain and SCA commando Joel Fox is feeling very down. The Sheriff’s captain who headed up a secretive political committee that broke campaign finance laws in its efforts to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last year is threatening to sue the county for “emotional distress” unless it [...]
“Why do left wingers constantly promote class warfare?”
That was a question put to me by a commenter who disagreed with me about the faux-populism of conservative “heroes” like Glenn Beck and Joe Arpaio. Last night Mark and I finally got around to seeing Capitalism: A Love Story. It was good but I have to admit that, for me, it didn’t have the [...]
Quick question for the right wingers out there.
Much like the late Jefferson Parish, La., Sheriff Harry Lee did, Maricopa, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio walks the line between all-powerful baron and populist champion of law and order. Why are your populist heroes almost invariably multi-millionaires?
