Ohio Lawmakers are Special People

As usual, I have been neglecting you, readers. But expect my neglect to continue. I have been frying bigger fish. For example, I have just been made a section editor at my school newspaper that comes with a handsome scholarship. And my Daddy said people didn’t want to read what I write! I am appropriately [...]

Wonk’s Saturday Reads: NY sends forth a Tiny Ripple of Hope

Morning, news junkies. I’m under the weather, so forgive me if this is scatterbrained. Marriage equality has arrived in NY. Last night, the New York senate legalized same-sex marriage in a 33-29 vote, and Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law, making NY the largest state where lesbian and gay couples can tie the knot. [...]

Wonk’s Saturday Reads: Strictly Hillary

Morning, news junkies. My link dump this weekend is almost all Hillary. Enjoy. I’ll start you off with this op-ed Hillary penned in the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat yesterday–it’s called “There Is No Going Back in Syria”: The Syrian people will not cease their demands for dignity and a future free from intimidation and fear. They [...]

Wonk’s Saturday Reads: Remembering Griswold and Anne Royall

Morning news junkies… here are my picks from the week to go with your Saturday morning cuppa. Enjoy. (the Anne Royall stuff is at the end!) Women’s Rights I loved this headline from RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes, so I’ll start off with it – “The Pill Kills” Protesters Unwittingly Help Hundreds of North Texans [...]

Wonk’s Saturday Reads: Rihanna, MAC, and Hillary (Fighting Sexual Violence)

Note: I got the postcard above from here, which seems to have originated from a site that’s now defunct, but there’s another (slightly grainier) scan on flickr. Morning, news junkies. You know the drill. Grab a cuppa something (like the French Flappers are doing to the right) and read on… (Oh and if you were [...]

Religiousity- Part 2… Little Isis’s Mom

Initially, when I decided to interview a believer so that I would get both sides of the story, I was going to interview John Smart. Partly out of laziness, and partly out of consideration, I decided to interview my mom instead. She is a salt of the Earth, Pentecostal, Flag waving Holy Roller. After concluding [...]

Religiousity – Part 1

Here at Liberal Rapture, we take pride in being controversial to the point of obnoxiousness. Things are just so much more exciting that way, and its not just at LR that I take this banner and run with it. At my school newspaper, I also make a point of being obnoxiously contrary in my section [...]