Between the Lines, in partnership with Equality Michigan, National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, labor unions, and Sierra Club, has created a progressive voter guide. You can get a page appropriate for your zip code. My paper copy arrived in the mail today (though I probably requested it a month ago). For state House, county, and district court races it provides a table showing which organization endorses the candidate. It also has columns (in some districts) for Michigan Right to Life and the Tea Party to know who to avoid. Finally, someone has recommendations for the 3rd Circuit Court. My ballot shows 17 names and says I can vote for 16 of them. Alas, this guide only mentions 8 names -- though it does suggest who I can avoid.
The comic strip Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller had a couple good ones.
It seems the creator has an accurate take on conservatives.
And a wonderful view of life.
Terrence Heath wrote that austerity policies are decimating Europe. He documents it well. The Greek debt is getting worse, not better. And the GOP is proposing the same policies for America.
Adrienne Baker and Austin Vitt had some unusual features in their wedding ceremony. Both of them and many of their guests wore white ribbons, the symbol of marriage equality. The first reading was not from the Bible, but from the Massachusetts Supreme Court case that made gay marriage legal there: "Without the right to choose to marry one is excluded from the full range of human experience." This wedding was part of a trend -- straight couples using their ceremony to call attention to marriage inequality and proclaim their allegiance with gay couples. They are "using the moral and religious force of the wedding ceremony."
Adrienne's passion for the issue comes from her being biracial. All the verbal abuse heaped on her and her parents she sees being heaped on gay couples. It is time to make a statement.
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