Entries for April 2009

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Poor Michael Steele. The recently appointed GOP chair is already wiping rotten tomatoes off his jacket and the worst part is, they were thrown by his fellow partisans:

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Atheists, come out of the closet. You won't be struck by lightning. I promise. I've been an "out of the closet atheist" for years now, and God (and her followers) have yet to cause me to perish. The New York Times has finally picked up on the trend and published the following this week, which I believe was the Times 's take on a front-page article in the National Journal earlier this year:

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

While the world is agog over international transmission of the swine flu, let me take this teachable moment to remind people, animals bite back. Factory farming of pigs led to this latest swine flu epidemic, which is threatening to turn into a pandemic. No, people don't get swine flu from eating pork. But the disease is transmitted to humans, usually, via humans (pig farmers) who work with the animals:

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Among the more humorous responses to Arlen Specter's defection from the GOP to the Democrats came from GOP party chief Michael Steele. Steele said, in part:

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Need I tell you how Mr. Obama is disliked by the Right? Let us count the ways. He talks to our enemies--Chavez, Castro, et al. How sacrilegious! Then there's Mr. Obama's position on everything from taxes, to overspending, to abortion, to religion in the public square, and so on.

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Call me a cynic (you can't beat me to it, I've already claimed the mantle), but too much is being made about President Obama's first hundred days in office. There is much more media hype, for example, than I remember being made about President George W. Bush's first hundred, or Clinton's before that, or H.W. Bush's before that. Can't we just let history happen before we report it to death, determine its meaning 10,000 years from now, compare its impact to similar historical events and move along to overexposing the next media event?

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

The Los Angeles Times has a story about a 20-something abortion foe who videotapes counseling sessions at Planned Parenthood clinics in which she poses as a 13-year-old impregnated by an older man: