Civil rights should not be determined by a referendum
Yesterday, Hawaii’s governor Linda Lingle vetoed a bill (full text here) that would have legalized civil unions for same-sex couples because she wants the issue to be decided by public vote: I am vetoing this bill because I have become convinced that this issue is of such significant societal importance that it deserves to be [...]
Doublespeak
David Cameron has appointed a “special representative” to coordinate the Pope’s September visit to the U.K. This representative, Chris Patten, is extremely concerned. Not concerned about the sexual abuse of children and its institutionally-sanctioned cover-up or about the obscene amount of money that the British government is spending on this “state visit,” though. No: he’s [...]
Ben Stein = total Juggalo
Check out Ben “Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people” Stein’s 4th of July commentary (which aired on CBS’s Sunday Morning), in which he informs us that American democracy is now completely free of racism, sexism, discrimination based on economic class, etc. [...]
LOLZ: Chuck Norris vs. the Secular Student Alliance
I still can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that Chuck Norris has somehow become a “cultural commentator”. Seriously? Chuck frakking Norris? This dude? He’s morphed from an ass-kickin’ action “star” (and “Action Jeans” spokesman!) into a creationist Tea-Partier. His rambling, cranky, and hyper-Christian posts at WorldNetDaily are always hilariously awful, but today’s is [...]
Girl power!
Yesterday, Australia elected their first female prime minister. Yay! I don’t know enough about Australian politics to make any sort of substantive comments about the election (I should know more- I’m working on that), but I do know that this quote makes me happy: “I think if there’s one girl who looks at the TV [...]
Dr. Laura: saving women from their independence since 1974
Dr. Laura, your ridiculous backwardness makes my head hurt. For those of you lucky enough to be blissfully unaware of her existence: Dr. Laura is an ultra right-wing radio talk show host who offers (terrible) advice to her listeners. She’s 75% Rush Limbaugh and 25% Dear Abby. On her website, she posts letters from her [...]
Opportunism, thy name is Christine Quinn
And Bill Donohue’s Mother Teresa/Empire State Building Campaign of Doom marches on… New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who fully supports and has become very involved in Donohue’s campaign, has again indicated that she either does not understand or refuses to respect the fact that it’s inappropriate and illegal for government officials to actively [...]
Does not compute!
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online and Bill “feminist” Donohue fangirl, writes a nationally syndicated column. Her newest piece is called “If Mama Ain’t Happy, She May Just Run . . . for Office”, subtitled “It’s perfectly natural and highly traditional for conservative women to be involved in politics.” In it, she argues [...]
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