Turn the other cheek.Love your neighbor as thyself.Forgive seven times seventy times.And stay home on election day if that fucking Mormon gets the VP slot. That’s American Christian values. (I know, this isn’t all Christians or maybe even most. But it’s 64 million of ’em, and that’s enough.)
(from Factcheck.org) Planned Parenthood is running a TV ad showing John McCain painfully groping for an answer to a reporter’s question: “It’s unfair that health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. Do you have an opinion on that?” McCain had good reason to be flustered. The premise of the reporter’s question is a…
The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a cable to US missions forbidding them from holding events for presidential candidates or arrange meetings for them. Rice issued no such cable prior to…
It’s not a joke. See, there’s this invalid argument technique called “the slippery slope.” You’ve heard of “give ’em an inch and they’ll take a mile?” That’s the slippery slope. It’s a bad way to make an argument. Most of the time. Not this time…The New York Times reports that the Bush Administration’s Department of…
I can’t believe this is still around, but I keep hearing the “homosexuality is against nature” argument. You know what I mean. Well, here’s an article (from Scientific American) demonstrating that bisexual behavior not only occurs in nature, but it is actually an evolutionary survival trait. (That means species who have bisexual tendencies tend to…
(Among other reasons) I’m not voting for John McCain because his wife looks fucking scary. (101 other reasons I’m not voting for John McCain.) PS: The Obama List is coming. Why the fuck did he have to try to win the Christian Right? Didn’t he know they’d never vote for him no matter what he…
The infamous (brilliant/hillarious/sardonic bastard that I love) Christopher Hitchens writes about this “questioning technique.” You can see the results below. Read the story. Chilling. And fucking frustrating that Bush tries to deny that this practice is anything but torture.
WASHINGTON — Ivy Leaguers and other top law students were rejected for plum Justice Department jobs two years ago because of their liberal leanings or objections to Bush administration politics, a government report concluded Tuesday. In one case, a Harvard Law student was passed over after criticizing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution. ___ Aren’t we fortunate that God provided a clear, concise and perfect document to let us…
* UN body says only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss matters of faith GENEVA: Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council. Religions deserve special protection because any debate about faith is bound to be “very complex, very sensitive and very…