My mantra for today: We will never stop terrorism until we understand and address the suffering of terrorists. Yup. You read it here. Call me a wuss. Call me un-American. Call me unsympatetic to the victims of terrorism. Call me an ally of terrorists. Call me a stupid bleeding heart liberal. Call me a coward. Call me whatever names you want. Use this as an example post for all the silly liberals you like to excoriate. I don't care. I will say this until I am blue in the face, and until the end of my days.

Many UU bloggers are talking about the racial incidents at GA. Philocrites, RadicalHapa and others link to the letter from the UUA board.

For some of you, this is old news. The Synod of the  UCC (United Church of Christ) has overwhelmingly voted in favor of gay marriage. This makes them the first mainline protestant denomination to do so. (The UUs did it a while back.) They also have come out in favor of a broad and interesting array of very progressive causes.

There's lots of blogging going on about this. It's pretty interesting to watch.

I've been reading about the whole Karl Rove outing Valerie Plame thingy in the blogosphere (not a lot of actual news coverage that I've heard - this search on google shows that few major news outlets seem to be covering this story so far.) Anyway, I'm not going to pontificate about it - there is plenty of that going on. I'm just going to post this picture, that I got from Liberal Avenger, who got it from someone else, of course.