Archive for April, 2007
Bryan Fischer will use any source, even students, if it promotes the hate.
Never mind the Iraq debacle or the governor’s slush fund, good bad ole Bryan Fischer is all atwitter over the latest misuse of tax dollars: transgendered bathrooms at Boise State University! Yep, right here on our hometown campus: state-funded sexual perversity! “Yes, BSU is planning to use public dollars to build restrooms reserved [...]
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” - Benjamin Franklin
Idaho’s mixed housing blessing.
Mixed in what way? Idaho’s housing market is great if you managed to buy before prices got out of control. It’s not so good if you couldn’t afford to buy a home before 2005 and your income isn’t going up at, say, 20% a year. From the Statesman:
According to the Office of [...]
BYU Dems more active than BSU’s.
Last week, 400 (by their count) BYU students protested the selection of Dick Cheney to be their commencement speaker. They have a very active website and organization, apparently. In comparison, where the heck are the BSU College Democrats? There were conspicuously absent when the College Republicans threw their insulting and infantile anti-immigration [...]
The MLK you don’t see on TV
The San Francisco Bay Guardian has a great article on MLK’s activism in the years before his murder, and why you don’t hear about it. Dr. King was very vocal against the war, and was organizing a Poor People’s Campaign, creating “a multiracial army of the poor.” His words and actions are still [...]
