Pretty crazy. After all, how fringe do you have to be to criticize Justice Scalia's views on gun control? Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to assume that the government had the right to place limits on the Second Amendment. "He was not speaking from a constitutional perspective," Pratt … Read More
YouTube Gun Celebrities — Where Are They Now?
(1) Keith Ratliff, who insisted everyone has the right to an assault weapon under the Second Amendment, who hosted a popular YouTube channel devoted to guns, including videos like “Top Three Weapons to Survive the Apocalypse”, met his end violently on January 3, single shot in the head in his office, where he stored his many guns and rifles. Police are treating it as … Read More
GOP Needs To Send Out Memo To Republicans: “Stop Talking About Rape”
From the "They Just Can't Help Themselves" file, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's intrepid Jim Galloway informs us that U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), an OB-GYN, went out of his way in a local newspaper interview to express sympathy for the "legitimate rape" comments of his former colleague Todd Akin: And in Missouri, Todd Akin was asked by a local news source about rape … Read More
Martin Luther King On Gun Control
You know you're barking up the wrong tree when you have to dig up Martin Luther King, put words in his mouth, and then say, "See??? Dr. King agrees with me!" That's practically what Larry Ward did. Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day, appeared on CNN on Friday to defend his event. When confronted with the fact that Gun … Read More
85th Academy Award Nominations
Not many surprises. A tough competitive year in most categories. With 12 nominations total, director Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” led this year’s pack, unusually full of films that have reached a broad mainstream audience. “Life of Pi” came in with 11 nominations; “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Les Miserables” received eight. Performance by an actor in a leading roleBradley Cooper in “Silver Linings … Read More
Word(s) of the Year
The American Dialect Society picked hashtag as the word of the year for 2012. The dictionary folks at Merriam-Webster chose capitalism and socialism, based on the number of lookups those words got during the year. The team at Oxford American Dictionaries chose GIF. But we English-speakers are not the only ones with this fetish for word of the year pronouncements. Here are some of the word of the year choices … Read More
Downton Abbey, Season 3, Episode 1 Thought
Apparently, the Downton folks live in a world where all the money comes from the women, and the men invest it badly while keeping the women out of the loop. And the women are fine with that. Lord Grantham's wealth comes from Cora, and he's lost that wealth now (Downton-in-trouble alarm!) and Matthew has some wealth coming from Lavinia's dad, … Read More
Don’t Let The Door Hit Your Ass On The Way Out
Gay-hater and founder and former head of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher, having found one outlet to publish her stupid columns, is packing it in, so that no outlet will publish her stupid columns. On the way out, she leaves us with these gems: Every life is precious. It is better to care for your children than to kill them. I can't … Read More
Homeland, Season Two: A Review
Yeah. Spoliers, probably. The writers of Showtime's Homeland had a hit on their hands with Season One. It was a unique show with clever plot twists and great acting. And the question was: how do you follow up a hit season like that? Well, having watched Season Two of Homeland, I have the answer: you don't. Season Two had a real … Read More
The Judge Should Run For Senate
From the AP … A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen."
Breaking: SCOTUS To Review DOMA and Prop 8 Cases
The Supreme Court granted cert in the so-called "Prop 8" case from California. They also decided to hear the appeal of a case testing the constitutionality of DOMA – the Defense of Marriage Act. Section III of DOMA prevents the federal government from treating as married for the purpose of federal law same-sex couples who are legally married under state law. … Read More
The War On Christmas 2012
No, it hasn't gone away. It's very very real, so says Bill O'Reilly. And now we know who is behind it… the gays! MCGUIRK: The war on Christmas is very, very real, and if you ask me, in addition to some grouchy misanthropic heathen atheists it has to do — at the root of it — with two things — abortion and … Read More