Well, the Nowak story seems to be the story of the day — both in the mainstream media and the blogosphere — presumably for it’s weirdness/entertainment value. CNN is now reporting that astronaut Lisa Nowak will face charges of attempted murder. That’s on top of her three other charges for battery, attempted kidnapping and attempted vehicle burglary with battery. For … Read More
The F-Bomb
Too long to excerpt here, the Two-Percent Company has an excellent essay on the use of profanity, and some people just need to fuckin’ lighten up.
It’s A Miracle!
The Reverand Ted Haggard “emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is ‘completely heterosexual‘ and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser.” Yeah, riiiiiiiiight. He’s probably eating Snickers now, too. I note this: As part of his continuing recovery and presumably in the spirit of forgiveness and caring, the board … Read More
Gay Music
Well, praise the LORD for Lovegodsway.org. Not only do they give us great music videos like "The Bible Says (God Hates A Fag)" by Donnie Davies and Evening Service (click on it — it’s very [unintentionally] funny in its badness), but they also provide a handy-dandy list of "Bands To Watch Out For" — that is, music that will turn … Read More
New York Times Tackling The Important Issues
The perils of pornography in high definition Yup. Apparently, many performers in the porn industry aren’t exactly embracing high-definition technology, where every wrinkle of cellulite becomes, well, obvious: “The biggest problem is razor burn,” said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director. Ms. Daniels is also a skeptic. “I’m not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their … Read More
Hate Crimes and The Religious Right
"Hate crime" legislation is intended to increase penalties for people who commit felonies based on the victim’s race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Why are so many religious groups on the right threatened by it? Are these people intending to commit crimes?
Pray Harder
Via AmericaBlog, I ventured to the website of an ex-gay religious activist’s website. [Graphic at right courtesy of the aforementioned AmericaBlog]. Let me be clear about this — the website I ventured to was by someone who claims that he was able to "pray away the gay" within him, and now he leads a healthy heterosexual Christian life. (He is, … Read More
LaRue’s Slippery Slope
Jan LaRue of the right-wing Concerned Women For America writes an article with the inquisitive headline: When Will Bisexuals Drag Homosexuals out of Polygamy Closet? I had to read that headline several times in order to get my head around it. I get the homosexual/closet reference — that’s obvious. But where does the polygamy thing come in? Is Ms. LaRue … Read More
Statutory Rape In Georgia
This is a sensitive subject, I know. But it seems to me that the judgment in this case is unduly harsh. It simply makes no sense. Honestly, should a seventeen year old kid be sent to prison for ten years because he had consensual (oral) sex with a fifteen your old girl? That’s what has happened. Now obviously, we don’t … Read More
We Need A Little Christmas
(1) Inflation took its largest jump in decades (2) Joint Chiefs of Staff oppose Bush’s plan to put more troops in Iraq. Bush has always said that he will listen to the advice of his military advisors. Will he? RELATED: Powell breaks with Bush 43, too. (3) America’s biggest cash crop? Cannibas. ("It is the leading cash crop in 12 … Read More
Penguin Propaganda
You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s an interview between film critic Michael Medved and Focus On The Family’s James Dobson. There discussing the animated children’s film Happy Feet: MEDVED: And then there’s this whole subtext, as there so often is, about homosexuality. Not that the penguins are gay — they’re not gay — but the one penguin hero doesn’t … Read More
An Open Letter To Bill O’Reilly?
Dear Mr. O’Reilly: On the December 13 edition of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, you engaged in a debate with a woman named Jennifer Chrisler, who heads the organization known as Family Pride, which supports famillies comprised of children with same sex parents. In the course of the show, you raised the subject of Mother Nature, saying: "Nature dictates … Read More
“Don’t Quote Me” [Updated]
LATE UPDATE: Oh, this just gets better and better. Apparently, Dobson plagerized. In an editorial appearing in Time, Focus On The Family’s James Dobson cites scientific studies to support his thesis that children being raised by two mothers (i.e., Mary Cheney and Heather Poe) become screwed up: According to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, mothers tend to stress sympathy, grace and … Read More
Soy Saps And Impurifies All Of Our Precious Bodily Fluids
According to the christianists at World Nut Net Daily, ingesting soy (you know, like tofu or soy milk) makes you gay. Not a real-men-don’t-eat-quiche kind of gay, but actually homosexual kind of gay. If you have soy as a pregnant mother, your kid will come out of your uterus singing Barbara Streisand tunes: There’s a slow poison out there that’s … Read More
Mark Foley Report
Ethics Report says that the House Ethics Committee didn’t break any rules, but still were negeligent in not protecting the House pages from the very creepy Mark Foley. The full Ethics Report is here, but if you want to read 104 pages of AOL instant messages from Mark Foley, go straight here (PDF format). And emails here (also PDF format). … Read More