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May 2012

May 22, 2012

MS State Rep Calls for Killing Gay People

I've long said that state legislatures are where you find the serious whackos in politics,...

May 22, 2012

DOJ Comes Down Hard for Right to Record Police

The Department of Justice is once again stepping in to defend the right to record...

May 22, 2012

Wingnut Loses Weird Religious Freedom Suit

A Christian man from Oklahoma, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, has lost a really...

May 22, 2012

Most Obvious Question of the Day

John Fea, an intellectually honest evangelical Christian historian, asks a rather obvious question: Is it...

May 22, 2012

OMG! Whites Are the Minority!

The New York Times reported recently that babies born to white people are now a...

May 22, 2012

Another Religious Scam: Jesus Loves Healthy Skin

I've noted before that I've somehow gotten on a lot of Christian PR email lists....

May 22, 2012

Derbyshire: Blacks Love White Supremacy

Holy shit, John Derbyshire, now freed from such constraints as the need to use codewords...

May 22, 2012

Wingnut: Environmentalism Modeled After Satan

The wingnuts continue to barrel down the tracks in a crazy train. Cal Beisner of...

May 22, 2012

Rob Tisinai Spots the Pretext

Andrew Sullivan recently had his readers ask questions of Maggie Gallagher, the anti-marriage equality activist....

May 21, 2012

Kansas Teacher Equates Being Gay with Murder

Here's a guy who should be nowhere near students in a public school. A Kansas...

May 21, 2012

Another Congressman ‘Misspeaks”

And yet another example of a Republican politician saying something appallingly moronic and xenophobic about...

May 21, 2012

Pat Buchanan: Unleashed on Fox

Now that Pat Buchanan has been fired by MSNBC, he's free to spew his crazy...

May 21, 2012

Schempp: Gravity is Only a Theory

This essay is a few years old but well worth promoting anyway. It's a parody...

May 21, 2012

Clear Channel’s Billboard Hypocrisy

Here's an interesting development in the Heartland Institute story, where they put up billboards comparing...

May 21, 2012

Wingnuts on the Power of Prayer

Rick Scarborough was on David Barton's radio show making the idiotic claim that Gov. Rick...

May 21, 2012

Bradlee Dean’s Confidence

Bradlee Dean is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. You...

May 21, 2012

Judge Says No to Lord’s Prayer at Council Meetings

A federal judge in Delaware has issued a preliminary injunction in a case challenging the...

May 21, 2012

Texas Likely Executed an Innocent Man

A new report by a team of investigators concludes that the state of Texas likely...

May 21, 2012

Gay Republicans Not Happy With Romney

Mitt Romney went to posthumously kiss the ring of Jerry Falwell by speaking at the...

May 21, 2012

Rauch Reflects on How Far We’ve Come

Jonathan Rauch, who has been arguing in favor of marriage equality longer than almost any...

May 20, 2012

This Week in the War on Women

Rachel Maddow had an entire segment dedicated to the latest news in the war on...

May 20, 2012

Orly’s First Campaign Ad

Orly Taitz has released her first campaign ad, which is four minutes long and apparently...

May 20, 2012

Badass Quote of the Day

I have been an outspoken critic of many of President Obama's policies from the day...

May 20, 2012

Virginia Bigot Spews Crazy on CNN

Virginia Delegate and wingnut extraordinaire Bob Marshall went on CNN to defend the voting down...

May 20, 2012

D’Souza’s Bizarre Attack on Obama

The staggeringly dishonest Dinesh D'Souza has a new movie coming out, based on his idiotic...

May 19, 2012

Vegetarians are Murderers!

That is the inescapable logical conclusion of this op-ed piece written by Michael Marder in...

May 19, 2012

2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions

I used to do a yearly review of the induction ceremony for the Rock and...

May 19, 2012

Public Reality Radio Gets a Stalker

My weekly radio show, Culture Wars Radio, is aired on WPRR, Public Reality Radio, in...

May 19, 2012

Happy Birthday to the Sandwich

I'm totally stealing Balko's idea for a post celebrating the 250th anniversary of the invention...

May 19, 2012

The Incidental Celebrity Catfight

Oh, it's on. Accidental celebrity Bristol Palin attacked President Obama for his acceptance of marriage...

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