A few days ago  white supremacist James Leshkevich smashed his wife’s face in several times, strangled her, suffocated her and then hung himself.
His last rambling entry on his blog  gives a glimpse into hatred, rage, entitlement, paranoia, pain, depression and ownership. 
The head of the National Alliance, the largest US white supremacist neo-nazi group were quick to distance their organization.
Erich Gliebe, the [...]

Recently Baptists held a convention in Georgia to affirm their heritage, express their unity and be a public counter voice to an appendage of the Republican Party, The Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC, which receives a lot of media attention in the US was invited to the celebration; as an organization they declined.  SBC individuals [...]

moar funny pictures

I got the idea from Frameshop by Jeffrey Feldman who is getting bloggers to do lolcat style images about presidential candidates positions on the Iraq War.  You can see where he is going here.
If you’re like me, you’ve noticed, lately, that the mainstream media spends virtually no time talking about the presidential candidate’s positions on [...]

“Live from the Morningside Studios in the heart of the Ozarks, it’s ‘The Jim Bakker Show’,” Shorey shouts, yet barely audible over the rapturous applause.
Why?
The St. Louis Dispatch has pics.
Why?
“It’s a little like Disneyland,” one stunned visitor says.
“A miracle,” says another. “It is God’s work.”
600 acres.
25 million dollars. 
Visitors stream in, and Darylene Howard eagerly greets [...]

I wasn’t expecting to get a picture with a small digital camera, I’ve been outside watching the eclipse, and thought I’d give it a shot. Wishing I had my old SLR.
What I wasn’t expecting was the camera to catch breath vapour. The sky is cloudless, and while it’s cold, (-22C)  my breath in the shot was an unintended [...]

- domestic extremism tends to fall into three categories: political, religious and youth cultures
- usually young alienated males
- not mentally ill
- right wing extremists groups usually engage in 480 planning events (meetings, phone calls) before carrying out an act
- environmental activists have fewer planning activities - 59
- most domestic extremists strike within 30 miles of home
- environmental extremists tend [...]

In the letter, published on Granma’s website during the middle of the night in Cuba, Mr Castro said he would not accept another five-year term as president when the National Assembly meets on Sunday, because of the health problems.
Excerpts from Castros letter:
Dear compatriots,
I promised you on 15 February that in my next reflections I would [...]