Another day, another member of the American Taliban is exposed: A Florida mayor ejected one of his constituents from a City Commission meeting on Thursday because he declined to stand during the invocation and pledge to the flag at the beginning of the meeting. Winter Garden Mayor John Rees, a nonpartisan official leading an Orlando …
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I Hate These People With a Passion
If this is God’s idea of Christian behavior, God sucks: I say we buck up for an all expense paid trip for his family to an Arizona shooting range, complete with complimentary Uzi and nine year old.
The Deserving Dead
I’m sympathetic to arguments that grave-dancing is unseemly and that we lefties should leave ghoulish glee over the untimely demise of idiots to our more bloodthirsty brethren on the right. On the other hand, it’s hard not to at least perceive karmic justice when a loud-mouthed gun-humper takes a slug in the noggin after handing …
No Victor, No Vanquished
T. Friedman of the NYT published a column that didn’t suck. That’s because instead of giving us yet another dreary round of “how the 1% interprets cabbie chatter,” T. Friedman stood back and let someone else do the talking, and the speaker was President Obama. Some excerpts after the jump.
Slow Descent Into Madness and Irrelevancy
Rochester recently got a new Catholic bishop, and the crackdown has begun. Our last bishop, who didn’t focus his attention entirely on key issues like abortion-craving sluts and their whorish need for birth control, has retired. In his place, the new bishop has decided to run the place the way Jesus intended, and of course …
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My New Favorite Mayor…
…would be Her Honor Kimberley Driscoll, chief executive of the town of Salem, MA, now caught up in a dispute with Gordon College. Gordon is a Christian school with an educational mission it describes thusly: “The best foundation for Christian higher education is the narrative of Scripture, and the goal of Christian higher learning is love—for both …
More Corporate Mooching
Let’s set aside the war on women for a moment and look at the war on our fucking wallets. All the intelligent commentary I’ve read about the Hobby Lobby decision nets out to the fact that religious quibbles about the whys, wherefores and consequences of ejaculation are the sole and solemn justification for closely-held corporations …