On June 17, the State of Missouri plans to execute Reginald "Reggie" Clemons for the 1991 murders of two young women, Robin and Julie Kerry. It plans to execute him even though it has never proven, nor sought to prove, that he killed them or intended to kill them. It plans to execute him even though another man, convicted of more direct involvement in the same murders, received a life sentence.

The first tentative conversations I heard about murdering abortionists happened over dinner at one of the Operation Rescue leader's homes. Jon and I sat among the large family of kids with our own growing one (there were at least 9 kids among us) and Jeff (staffer) said that clearly the movement needed to escalate. Passive resistance was not effective.

Every year in Washington, D.C., the Campaign for America's Future (CAF) convenes the largest conference of activists positioned anywhere to the left of wherever the center has drifted off to. You can sense my cynicism, and yet this year I was very pleasantly surprised.

I finally got a copy of Eric Boehlert's new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press. I'd like to recommend this book to you even though I have some significant problems with it. The book is at its strongest when it focuses on the positive achievements of the netroots movement and its relationship to the traditional media.

I live in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton was a bright spot of industrial America, a sort of early twentieth century Silicon Valley. There are not many jobs here now.

I want to tell my story of conversion from anti-abortion/pro-life to pro-life/pro-choice, in the hope that it will help bring people on both sides together in a way that defeats the old frame and instead gives us a mutual agreement that can be considered Pro-Woman and Pro-Child.

Got to hand it to Frank Rich at the New York Times for this little and yes, acidic piece. It's an eye-opener to truth, justice and the American way.

We just need Superman, don't we?...

Yesterday's news offered a two-fer on the "when's the recession/depression going to end" front: both major forms of consumer debt on personalty are still showing increasing rates of delinquency and default. So if you're a credit card company or an auto loan financer, don't look for the nightmare to end any time soon.

Or if one prefers, chapter whatever of The Village Idiot Strikes Again.

Is he pushing for Limbaugh's job?

A major plank in the Republicans' organized resistance to common sense solutions to the current economic disaster is the claim that raising income taxes on the richest Americans in order to support programs to improve the lot of poorer Americans is such a "redistribution of wealth" that it is Socialism. Or Communism! Or both. And Fascism, to boot!

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