Tomas Young’s Fuck-You Letter To Bush And Cheney

The Article: in Dangerous Minds.

The Text:

To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

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Elizabeth Warren Slams Banks And Regulators Once Again

This time it’s regarding a recent settlement on illegal home foreclosures and how regulators have the ability to give information on how homeowners were illegally foreclosed upon to those families…but still, in their “indecision”, have effectively sided with the banks as opposed to the people. So much for transparency.

No Cuts To Congress?

The sequester was the hideous, Frankenstein-esque monster of their dreams. And yet, it is everyone else who must suffer due to Congress’ (recent) obsession with the deficit.

What Difference Does Gay Marriage Make?

The Article: What Difference Will Gay Marriage Make? by Melissa Harris-Perrey in The Nation.

The Text: In his essay “Message in the Stars,” the American Presbyterian writer and theologian Frederick Buechner conducts a thought experiment. What if God decided to prove—dramatically, irrefutably and publicly—that God does exist by writing across the night sky. Buechner imagines the heavenly author arranging the stars to read—GOD IS—and the subsequent hope, terror, regret, joy and utter astonishment that such a message would bring. He fantasizes that God would write the message in all the different languages of the world, so that on any given night one might go outside, look up and see, in French, Mandarin or Arabic: GOD IS.

He invites us to envision the sense of relief that would come with the utter certainty that God exists. Then he imagines this:

Then the way that I would have it end might be this. I would have a child look up at the sky some night, just a plain, garden-variety child with perhaps a wad of bubble gum in his cheek…. and then I would have the child turn to his father, or maybe, with the crazy courage of childhood, I would have him turn to God himself, and the words that I would have him speak would be words to make the angels gasp. “So what if God exists?” he would say. “What difference does that make?”

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FOX News Fantasies

Among other things, Albert Einstein is remembered for having said that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. A lack of it, however, is even worse; which is precisely why FOX News’ chokehold on news viewership spells disaster for the United States.