“I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too” I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our
February 22, 2015
February 22, 2015
Obama channels his inner junior high school mean girl [Darleen Click]
The White House in a fit of childish pique WASHINGTON (AP) — In what is becoming an increasingly nasty grudge match, the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world. There are limits. Administration officials have discarded the idea of President Barack Obama himself
February 22, 2015
No-True-Muslim Extremists announce since they can’t get jobs at malls, they will attack them. Randomly. [Darleen Click]
“Al Shabab Calls for ‘Westgate’-Style Attack in U.S., Canada and U.K.” LONDON — Terrorist group al Shabab released a video Saturday calling for attacks on shopping malls in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The video, released by the Somalia-based group’s official media wing, calls for attacks in the style of al Shabab’s 2013 siege on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in which more than 60 people were killed.