Daily Archives: October 4, 2006

Wherein Marty demonstrates how the Right gets it wrong, twice

Marty has posted a summary of a couple of arguments I’ve seen made a lot by those on the Right, one specific to the case of the Republican pervert Mark Foley, the other a more general case. First the specific: Now suppose they had thrown Foley, a gay representitive, under the bus at that time [...]

Karnataka bandh

Today, as I was informed in passing by a colleague in Bangalore, is the Karnataka bandh. From Wikipedia I’ve learned that Karnataka is the region of India in which Bangalore is situated, and a bandh is a closing down of shops and offices to mark some kind of event. In trying to find out what [...]