Tag Archives: Sarah Palin

The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-18: Senatorial soul-searching

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 18 February 2010

Per U.S. Census Bureau, percent of people who speak English less than “very well” in Alaska: 4.8%…. Sarah…? http://bit.ly/9dbArD # RT: @jamielang: Yay for breakup! // Just our annual “fake breakup.” But I like it anyway. # Sexting & “what it means to be a girl.” Here’s Christianism for you – do I hear “Handmaid’s [...]

Conservatives for Palin & civility: Fairly unbalanced

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Is it really a good thing to be complimented for "courage" by a blogger at the Conservatives for Palin website? Well, mainly it's a lot of work. It's nice to be called courageous, sure, but even better is to be represented honestly and in context.

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged AKMuckraker, Brian the Moose, civility, Conservatives for Palin (blog), Gryphen, Immoral Minority (blog), lgbtq, lima beans, Max Blumenthal, Mike Doogan, Mudflats (blog), Palin ethics complaints, Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Rich Crowther, Sean Parnell, Things I did instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) | 6 Comments

Progressives, civility, & Palin: Anatomy of an apology

By Mel | Published: Monday, 15 February 2010

A classic example of an apology that is not an apology, however much its author tried to make it into one.

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged apology, civility, Conservatives for Palin (blog), Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog) | 12 Comments

The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-12: Annual birthday present

By Mel | Published: Friday, 12 February 2010

My annual birthday present: getting off work in February to find some light still in the sky. And a whole bunch of other tweets.

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Andrew Halcro, Crossed Genres, writing | Leave a comment

Progressive bloggers on Palin: Civility versus namecalling

By Mel | Published: Monday, 8 February 2010

Okay, so we don't like Sarah Palin or her political views. But does that mean it's good for us or the nation for us to exercise our free speech through namecalling & insults?

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged civility, crossposted, free speech, Harming none do as you will, Joe Biden, Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Tina Fey | 37 Comments

The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-05: Caprica w/ sauerkraut

By Mel | Published: Friday, 5 February 2010

And of course “Caprica” is also scored by Bear McCreary, same guy who composed four seasons of great music for “Battlestar Galactica.” All the more reason for loving this new series. A much better way to end the day than what I had to begin it. (Palin, ewwww!) Moving AK capitol from Juneau is [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Andrew Halcro, Battlestar Galactica (TV), Bear McCreary, Caprica (TV), sauerkraut | 1 Comment

The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-01: Buzzcuttedness

By Mel | Published: Monday, 1 February 2010

Most beautiful photo of the Mat-Su Valley of AK I’ve ever seen, by my friend @jansonjones. http://bit.ly/c44h7a # RT: @LambiFund: A good quick history of #Haiti Starting w/ Columbus http://bit.ly/bLpivW # RT: @CapricaSeven: Interesting recap of Caprica’s first post-pilot ep here: http://www.afterelton.com/TV/recaps/caprica/102 # RT: @JanFlora49: RT @jfkfan: I must be the only one who thought Ronald Reagan [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Caprica (TV), gender expression, Lambi Fund of Haiti | Leave a comment

The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 21 January 2010

The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty much unlimited “free speech” in campaign advertising. This is one I’ve been watching. Democracy in [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianism, Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, earthquake, good government bad government, HAARP, Haiti, Mormon Church (LDS), Prop 8, same-sex marriage, Shannyn Moore, U.S. Supreme Court | 2 Comments

The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Today's tweets were dominated by news of yesterday's magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Bent Alaska, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, Firedoglake (blog), FiveThirtyEight.com, Haiti, in the news, lgbtq, Marriage equality, natural disaster, Pat Robertson, Prop 8, Red Cross, Wyclef Jean, Yéle Haiti | Leave a comment

The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2010

RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent Alaska: Prop 8 opening arguments and testimony (Day 1). http://bit.ly/6XkeL9 #fb # FiveThirtyEight: “Homosexual marriage is destroying [...]