I’m Not The Only One

For those of you who do not know, I hate Rudy Giuliani, or as my mother calls him, Ghouliani (I concocted a first name, Doody Ghouliani, but then thought that was too juvenile to put on this blog). You can read my laundry list of grievances with Ghouliani if you already haven’t.
I visited Ghouliani’s Presidential campaign web site and was amused to hear of his 12 Commitments. Funny to hear the word commitment from a man who is on his third wife. (more…)

I guess by now everyone is aware of what happened to Ellen DeGeneres and the emotional meltdown witnessed on national television. I don’t agree with how she acted on her show, and she probably set her gender back a few decades by perpetuating the stereotype that women are crybabies and driven by their emotions rather than their brains.

That being said, Ellen’s sad episode is an example of why most animal shelter workers and volunteers are assholes and hypocrites. (more…)

Since this week consisted of both the observed and actual Columbus Day holidays, I figured I’d rant about Christopher Columbus and why he does not deserve his own holiday.

Before you expect me to give a lecture about how his voyage to the New World brought about the accidental or intended genocide of Native Americans and later of many Africans, I’ll make it clear now that that’s not the aspect I’m going to argue. (more…)

The next class assignment was due this week and required me to flat out describe the proposal for my research paper. It’s a bit long, but I feel it’s a pretty good attempt at describing the complexity of what Obama Barack’s Presidential campaign represents in so many ways.

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The topic I plan to investigate for my research paper is how much of a challenge the Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama is to the nationwide concept of what an American President should embody.

This particular research question to me is a profound one because we live in a country where 42 of the 43 people who have served as President of the United States have been Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon Protestant men (The U.S. has only elected one President, John F. Kennedy who was a Catholic Irish-American). Given this 200 plus-year consistency of nationally elected leaders, it is easy for non-Americans and even many Americans to conceive of the United States as a white country, with a marginalized racial minority population that is not even an afterthought. (more…)