Let's Do This

Welp, we're turning the electricity back on in Salon Sassy.  As you may recall, this blog was started in 2008 so that me and my friends had a place to pour out all of our excitement and anxiety around the Obama v McCain presidential election.  Remember the halcyon days of mocking silly Sarah Palin? The excruciating joy that was election night in Grant Park?  The last 8 years have been great fun and we have seen America expand in such beautiful ways: gay marriage, universal health care, two women added to the supreme court, the Paris agreement, and Hamilton!

Unfortunately, the times have changed and this blog is now meant to serve a much different purpose. We will be meeting here to transmute our anger and fear into action and change and love and peace, in particular to be allies for those most vulnerable to what is coming, to what is already here.

Roll up your sleeves, folks. Post volunteer opportunities, share organizations that need donations, analyze smart reporting on our new world, and bring your own new and crazy ideas and insights and inspiration.

I'll meet you in the arena.

Cool Stuff from Today

First, excellent news out of Connecticut as the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Let's keep our fingers crossed that the voters in California come down on the same side in a few weeks.

Second, remember how McCain said to a questioner at the town hall that he probably hadn't heard of Fannie and Freddie. Well, that guy's way over educated and ticked off that McCain would make that assumption.

Finally, speaking of the GOP underestimating relatively young black men, I really liked this post on the GOP's shock at Barack climbing the political ladder to a lead in the presidential race so quickly by Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic. Money quote: "Electoral politics are about showing and proving--no amount of Affirmative Action can get you to the presidency. You have to compete and win. If you're the sort of voter who shows up at one of these dead-end rallies, who likely believes that Obama never deserved the hype he got, that he was only a big deal because he was the 'black guy,' then, yeah, you are liable to be stunned when he Buster Douglasses that ass."