Here are ten favorites: 1. On President Obama’s college drug use: President Obama got in a double jab at the changing media landscape and himself when he mused that “I remember when BuzzFeed was just something I did in college around 2AM.” 2. On CNN: CNN’s offered up some serious softballs this week, and both President Obama and O’Brien … Read More
9/11 Landing Gear Found
Wow. More than eleven years after the fact, surveyors found part of the landing gear of the one of the planes which crashed into the World Trade Center. It was wedged between two buildings.
Muslims Aren’t Inherently Evil
They're not. Some of them get that way when they are bombed, their nations are invaded, and they live under dictators which the United States supports. That's the gist of this thoughtful article by Glenn Greenwald, excerpted here: First, some leading American opinion-makers love to delude themselves and mislead others into believing that the US is attacked despite the fact … Read More
Listen To Alexander Graham Bell
Nobody today knows what Bell, the inventor of the telephone, sounded like — until recently. Alexander Graham Bell worked with sound, tinkering with gadgets to help his wife, who was deaf, communicate. He is known as the inventor of the telephone. He gave the Smithsonian more than 400 discs and cylinders of his audio experiments, but until recently there was … Read More
More Dirty Republican Deeds
Colorado is currently considering a major piece of legislation to improve the state’s voting laws by implementing Election Day Registration, automatically sending mail ballots to every voter, and creating a real-time voter database to detect and prevent fraud. It passed the House last week and will now be taken up by the Democratic-controlled Senate. It's a good law and makes sense. It's … Read More
Retaliation Against Judges
Republican politicians have no scruples. In 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously held that the Iowa Constitution does not permit marriage discrimination against gay couples. Four of the seven justices who reached that decision remain on the court today, and a pair of Iowa lawmakers have a plan to punish them four years after they extended the blessings of liberty to gay … Read More
Earlier This Hour
This happened…. Then the AP quickly tweeted (on related accounts) that its Twitter account had been hacked. So the stock market did this: Yikes. It dropped 150 points in just seconds. Power of the tweet.
Wrong Guy?
You know, what with the Boston Marathon bombing last week, we almost forgot about the other "terrorist" — the guy who sent ricin in the mail to his Senator and President Obama. Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested last Wednesday. Except… hmmmm… there's breaking news that they released him today, the day of his first hearing before the court: A federal … Read More
Gay Marriage News
(1) Looks like it will become a reality in Rhode Island, as all the Republican state senators sign on to marriage equality (2) France, too! (Cue "Gay Paree" jokes).
Why You Didn’t See The Westboro Baptist Church Protesters At The Funeral Of A Boston Marathon Bombing Victim
Members of Teamsters Local 25 sent out a call for any available members to shield today’s services for Krystle Campbell in Medford, Massachusetts. Basic human decency won out: the Boston Globe reports that hundreds of counter-protesters gathered across the street from the church where the memorial for Campbell was held, but that the Westboro protesters never showed up at all. This infuriated the WBC … Read More
The Insane Sorority Girl Letter… Read By Michael Shannon
If you've been under a rock the past few days, the latest Internet meme is an actual letter written by a Delta Gamma sorority girl to her sisters. It demands to be printed in full: If you just opened this like I told you to, tie yourself down to whatever chair you’re sitting in, because this email is going to … Read More
Boy Scouts New Policy: Gay Scouts OK, But Gay Scout Leaders Are Pedophiles
That's my take from this: Under pressure over its long-standing ban on gays, the Boys Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders. The Scouts announced Friday that the proposal would be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members of its National Council at a meeting in Texas … Read More
The GOP Split Is Starting To Get Real
Over the past few months, the GOP has talked a lot about re-branding, and softening its views on gay marriage and immigration, in order to appeal to normal people. The base is not happy: Tony Perkins says religious conservatives should stop donating to the Republican Party until it clarifies its position on social issues. The president of the Family Research … Read More
More NC Legislature Embarrassment
North Carolina lawmaker Michele Presnell is against allowing Islamic prayers to be conducted before a legislative meeting because she "doesn't condone terrorism."