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Jeff Fecke is a freelance writer who lives in Eagan, Minnesota. In addition to his own blog, Blog of the Moderate Left, he also contributes to Alas, a Blog, Minnesota Campaign Report, and AlterNet.
So there’s an ad campaign out there that’s been slowly driving me…well, I’d say it’s driving me to drink, but actually, it’s doing quite the opposite. I guess it’s driving me to sobriety.
The ad campaign is in support of Miller Lite, and its message is simple. If you drink the wrong light beer, you may as well be a woman, and that’s bad. Especially as far as women are concerned.
I actually think the WNBA is doing pretty good for a relatively new product. The NBA wasn’t drawing tens of thousands of fans in its early years, players weren’t making a bazillion dollars a year. The WNBA is doing things right – expanding slowly but steadily, paying its players wages that are sustainable, and carefully advancing into the future. Continue Reading
You know, if I wasn’t convinced that God doesn’t waste Her time meddling in humanity’s affairs, this would convince me that God is wasting Her time meddling in humanity’s affairs:
The “largest sculpture of Jesus ChristContinue Reading
If there was one thing we knew about Rand Paul, it was that he wanted to bring America back to its glory days, when businesses could call the police to evict those meddlesome Negroes from their lunch counters. If we knew another thing, it was that he was Ron Paul’s kid. Continue Reading
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., is apparently worried about how parents will explain the world to children if the military doesn’t discriminate against homosexuals:
What do mommas and daddies say to a seven-year-old child about this issue? I don’t know. Continue Reading
Like most people, I’m horrified by the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I hate BP for their half-hearted response to the crisis. I think the Obama administration has limited options for what they can do to stop the crisis (nuking the hole, while cathartic, would almost certainly make matters worse), but they have been too willing to defer to BP so far. Continue Reading
I haven’t written about the Israeli attack on the Gaza blockade runners, because I’m not sure exactly what to say, other than that this is clearly a miscalculation of epic proportions by Israel. The Israeli government was goaded into action by the flotilla, and they stupidly took the bait – and in the process, destroyed their ability to maintain a blockade in Gaza.
So all the major-party candidates have named their lieutenant governor picks. Okay, Tom Horner hasn’t, but really, the Independence Party is only technically a major party. At any rate, all the Democrats and Republicans have named Lt. Gov. candidates. The big question is simple: how did they do? Since I’m some guy with a website, I’m going to tell you.
As liberals have noted with consternation, the Obama Administration has been spinning its wheels on ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Continue Reading
One of the issues that ended my flirtation with libertarianism was civil rights.
The history of Jim Crow laws certainly worked to oppress African-American men and women in the South. But segregation was not simply a matter of law. It was also a matter of informal agreement among the white community in the South. Continue Reading