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September 27, 2006
The train wreck that has been Liza Minelli's entire life has entered the trial phase with her divorce from and dueling lawsuits with David Gest. I've actually been paying attention to this just because I think it's hilarious. This woman is basically a walking SNL sketch and when I first saw the two…
September 27, 2006
From SignOnSanDiego:
Three men who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a series of brutal beatings after a gay pride festival were sentenced Monday to prison terms.
James Carroll, 24; Lyonn Tatum, 18; and Kenneth Lincoln, 24, pleaded guilty on Friday in San Diego Superior Court on the second…
September 27, 2006
The AP reports:
Gunmen on a motorbike Monday killed an Afghan women's rights activist who ran an underground school for girls during the Taliban's rule -- the latest victim of increasingly brazen militants targeting government officials and schools.
Safia Ama Jan, a provincial director for…
September 26, 2006
He writes pretty much exactly what I was thinking as I watched it last night:
I have a few pictures and some thoughts on New Orleans I'll share later. For now though, I'm wondering: New Orleans is more than anything known for its music. Jazz, blues, zydeco -- or some combination of the three. So…
September 26, 2006
The New York Times has an article up about Save the ACLU, a new group formed by dissidents within the group who want the current leadership ousted. I am in agreement with them, as I've said many times in the past. Anthony Romero has been a disaster as the ACLU's executive director, though I am…
September 26, 2006
This weekend's "Values Voter Summit" was chock full of the sort of irrational nonsense you would expect from a conference that included the likes of Ann Coulter and Gary Bauer. Agape Press reports on speeches by Presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney about gay marriage. How about the…
September 26, 2006
This post on the ADF blog has a rundown of what is and isn't allowed in terms of prayer in public schools. Most of it is accurate, saying that prayer groups and Bible clubs are allowed to form and that students are allowed to pray individually and collectively during non-instructional time. But…
September 26, 2006
Bruce Wilson has a report at Talk to Action about a speech by Sen (!) James Inhofe of Oklahoma at last weekend's Values Voter Summit. This speech will be enough to make you think that "values" is synonymous with "braindead". His speech said that global warming is a hoax cooked up by the UN. And…
September 25, 2006
Joe Queenan has a review in the New York Times of a new book by Joe Eszterhas, the guy responsible for a whole boatload of bad movies including Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Showgirls. The review is positively dripping with sarcasm. My favorite part:
Ruthlessly honest, uncompromisingly ethical,…
September 25, 2006
The Chicago Tribune had an article this weekend by Judith Graham that indicates that the religious right is now broadening their focus on abortion to include opposition to contraception itself.
Emboldened by the anti-abortion movement's success in restricting access to abortion, an increasingly…
September 25, 2006
With the ongoing campaigns in Ohio and Michigan, more and more newspapers are weighing in on the issue of ID in public schools. In Ohio, the Cincinatti Enquirer has an op-ed piece urging readers to vote for "fair-minded, pragmatic members" so that the school board can leave creationism behind and…
September 25, 2006
My first real post at Talk to Action has been published. It's a thorough review of the history of ID activity in Ohio and Michigan as well as information on how that issue is influencing ongoing campaigns for the November elections in each state.
September 25, 2006
For those ADF and AFA types who think that Gay/Straight Alliance clubs are horrible and shouldn't be allowed, look at this article that details the testimony of a man at a pretrial hearing for 4 thugs, one of them 15 years old, who beat several men nearly to death after a gay pride event in San…
September 25, 2006
Baylor President John Lilley has overruled the tenure committee that voted not to give tenure to Francis Beckwith. He was denied tenure several months ago but appealed that denial. The committee reconsidered and took a second vote, which was apparently 6-5 against giving him tenure, much closer…
September 25, 2006
This time it's the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin. Within days of his death, emails began to circulate claiming that he had converted to Christianity just before he died. And guess what? It was spread by creationists. There's a shock. Creation Ministries International broadcast this alleged…
September 24, 2006
I'm off to Lansing for the day to visit family. My brother, who lives in Colorado, is in the state and we're heading down there to visit with him. Have a great day everyone.
September 24, 2006
Every once in a while you come across something so ridiculous that it makes you laugh out loud. For me, it usually happens while reading the Worldnutdaily. And this column by Les Kinsolving provides more than a few chuckles. He's got gays on the brain, you see, and it appears to be making him a bit…
September 23, 2006
John Gorenfeld has a video blog up at Talk to Action showing scenes from the Rev. Moon's 1996 world tour with former President George HW Bush. It shows footage of a banquet hosted by a sycophantic Pat Boone kissing up to this leader of a decidedly anti-Christian cult, and it shows a Moon conference…
September 23, 2006
The World's Fair has a post up asking the ScienceBloggers the following question:
If you make a music mix that is a reflection of your informative years, what would those dozen or so songs be, and maybe more interesting, why? You don't have to be proud of the song choices - they're not necessarily…
September 23, 2006
Religious right uber-nut Peter LaBarbera is quite distressed with the new HRC report on gay friendly companies. You see, they're all for the free market until someone sells a product they disapprove of or refuses to fire someone they regard as sinful. And I love this kind of rhetoric:
The battle to…
September 23, 2006
I've not said anything on the subject of election fixing over the last few years. I've seen lots of allegations of vote fixing in Ohio and other states, but never paid much attention to them. It would take extraordinary audacity for anyone to actually fix election results in any major way and I've…
September 22, 2006
I just sent a press release to our media contacts around the state of Michigan concerning the DeVos campaign and their false claims of being misrepresented. You can read that press release here.
September 22, 2006
Few people are as reliably ridiculous as Worldnutdaily publisher Joseph Farah. If there is a hall of fame for asinine writing, Farah is a first ballot inductee. In his latest column he revisits an old issue that his little webrag flogged to death last year, the shocking (to him, that is)…
September 22, 2006
There are no commercials on TV I hate more than those "This is Bob" commercials for Enzyte and "natural male enhancement." Seems the government doesn't like them much either. The company that makes it has been slapped with a fraud indictment:
In one example, Wednesday's indictment cited ads placed…
September 22, 2006
I know, I know. This isn't exactly surprising. You might have heard that Bill O'Reilly claimed recently that the FBI had visited him to tell him he was on an Al Qaeda hit list. I laughed when I heard it, knowing it was probably a bunch of crap. Turns out it was, according to Radar Online.
But the…
September 22, 2006
Gay rights activists have launched a campaign nationwide to get the military's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces lifted. The timing is probably as good as it could be with recruiting shortfalls in the news and a military that is seriously stretched thin. And the fact that they keep…
September 22, 2006
Hans Zeiger earned many a merit badge in the boy scouts; I'm guessing he didn't earn one in logic. His latest column at the Worldnutdaily compares the Boy Scouts of America to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts, a training group for Hezbollah that teaches young men how to be terrorists and suicide bombers. I…
September 22, 2006
Wayne Besen, author and gay rights activist, reports on his trip to see an "ex-gay" evangelist named Tim Wilkins at a revival meeting in North Carolina. He makes a couple of very important points about the entire ex-gay scam.
Equally surprising was that Wilkins unwittingly admitted that he was not…
September 21, 2006
As though I don't have enough blogs to write for, I have decided to join another one: Talk to Action. I would like to thank Frederick Clarkson for his generous offer to join the terrific cast of writers they already have there. Being asked to join a cast of contributors that already includes…
September 21, 2006
Since I've been bashing Jordan Lorence of the ADF for the last few days, I should also give credit where credit is due when he's right, and this post about a new 9th circuit ruling is on the money. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th circuit overturned a lower court's preliminary injunction on behalf of a…