Rather than making wisecracks (like I do), a blogger from New York gives serious thoughts on The War On Christmas thing. I’ve boiled it down, but you should read the whole thing: Yes I know; you’re sick of this subject. Me too. But here I go… I’m a New York Jew; a life long Democrat and a card carrying member … Read More
A Success Story
The American Family Association, a James Dobson group, is fond of instigating boycotts against companies for, well, anything that gets their panties in a bunch. And they usually lose. As the Carpetbagger Report explains: The AFA launched a nine-year boycott of Disney, for example, during which time none of the group’s demands were met and the company enjoyed a surge … Read More
Today’s War On Christmas Updates
(1) So, last Friday, Bill O’Reilly had the following talking points, as summarized on his website: Banishing the words ‘Merry Christmas’ is simply disrespectful to people who celebrate that federal holiday. In Wisconsin, an elementary school changed the name of ‘Silent Night’ to ‘Cold In The Night.’ In Plano, Texas, a school told students they couldn’t wear red and green … Read More
The Latest In The War On The War On Christmas
Bill O’Reilly: "In Plano, Texas, a school told students they couldn’t wear red and green because they are Christmas colors. That’s flat-out fascism. If I were a student in Plano, I’d be a walking Christmas tree after that order. Talking Points understands that you know what is going on here." Plano District Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Bill Otto: "The school … Read More
Are You Listening, Bill O’Reilly?
Pope Benedict says that materialism is ruining the spirit of Christmas. Yup.
Ugly Fundies
The University of Kansas professor who was planning to offer a course entitled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies", withdrew the course after getting beaten up by two religious fundamentalists. He also quit his post as chairman of the University of Kansas religious department. Except he didn’t quit. He was forced to resign. This is … Read More
Don’t Raise Your Kids In Kansas
That’s my advice. First of all, you’ve got this whole "intelligent design" thing that they’re trying to foist into the school curriculum. Now there’s this, a kid gets suspended from school for speaking Spanish: Kansas City, Kan., resident Lorenzo Rubio is upset that his son, Zach, was suspended from the Turner School District’s Endeaver School for two days. He is … Read More
Richard Pryor’s Website Needs Updating
Regrettably, this graphic from Pryor’s website is no longer true.
Stupid Quote Of The Day
Via Shakespeare’s Sister: "The lifestyles depicted in this movie [Rent] are not the majority, not the lifestyles of 99.9 percent of the kids that live in these two towns," School Committee cochair Donna Mansolillo told a meeting of the committee this week. That’s a school board member from Glocester, Rhode Island, talking about a controversy involving a high school field … Read More
Friday iPod Random Ten – The Christmas List
I haven’t done this in a while, but because I’ve blogged so much about the "War on Christmas" lately, I thought I’d see how anti-Christ I am by checking out the holiday Christmas songs on my iPod. All songs are graded on the zero-to-ten O’Reilly Scale ("0" means I am damned for all time; "10" means you can bring on … Read More
Who Took The Christ Out Of O’Reilly?
I don’t normally have a "Commentary Of The Week", but a post by Kevin Hayden at The American Street is so spot-on, that I will instigate the accolade solely for his post, and then retire it afterward. Kevin writes: Bill O’Reilly, desperate and ready to throw himself on the floor, kicking and screaming if need be to regain attention, no … Read More
George Mason University Dean Is Stupid
From an unrelated post at Powerline, I came across this quote. It is contained within a message from George Mason University Law School Dean Daniel Polsby to a student reporter at the Harvard Crimson: I do hope that next time the Crimson covers the gay marriage issue, you will see fit to point out that gays are demanding an exception … Read More
Red State News In Brief
Tennessee: Ex-preacher forces his wife into prostitution so they can have Christmas money. Arkansas: Baptist minister’s wife, a schoolteacher, tells the black children in her class that they are descended from the devil. But she’s not racist, she says. But all kidding aside, this is one of the saddest news stories I’ve ever read.
Report From Dover, PA
The non-online New Yorker had a good article about the machinations of the Dover, Pennsylvania school board who wanted to insert a religious-based curriculum into the public schools, including the teaching of intelligent design. Fortunately, the American Taliban on the school board were voted out of office, and the curriculum nonsense was put to an end. But the New Yorker … Read More
O’Reilly Takes On The Daily Show
Yes, yes, I know. The "War on Christmas" is in danger of being overdone here. But just when I think it has reached the pinnacle of silliness, along comes the next wave of sheer lunacy. And you know that Bill O’Reilly is riding that wave. As Brad Blog and Media Matters have pointed out, Corporal O’Reilly has launched his latest … Read More