I am shocked. Shocked, I say. “They would not be able to discriminate against gay and lesbian or transgender individuals,” Dye said. “That type of protection parallels to what you find in race discrimination. If a church provides lodging or rents a facility they could not discriminate based on race. It’s along that kind of… Read More Forcing Churches to Have Gay Weddings
…and came from a long line of polygamists. Obama Sr. was already married when he left Kenya to study at the University of Hawaii, where he married again. His American wife-to-be, Stanley Ann Dunham, was not yet 18 and unaware of his marital situation when she became pregnant with his namesake son in 1961. Why,… Read More Barak Obama Sr. Was a Polygamist…
At Patterico, the usual desperate flailing to find cover for President Pup-Eater McFailpants is diagnosed: The slogan is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about black men. See? It evokes. And your intentions don’t matter, because meaning is determined by the interpreter. See… Read More Obama isn’t Working, Because Mitt Romney is a Raaaaacist, or Something…
Specifically: Imagine All The People, Liking Better Songs OMG Vinyl Fills Me With Envy The Count Bishops Get a Thumbs Up I Have a Copy of “Spiral Scratch” by the Buzzcocks on Vinyl… I may suppose that means something. But I don’t do much supposing if I can get around it.
And then informs me: It hurts to even mutter the heresy, but Science didn’t spring forth from Richard Dawkins’ ass. Science as a discipline was developed in the High Middle Ages, in the Universities established by the Very Mean Roman Catholic Church. Robert Grosseteste — the bishop of Lincoln — is the first man credited with… Read More Bad Catholic Makes Me Laugh.
All of this will be old news to anyone who’s read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, but he once more takes up the cudgel to defend Gilded Age businessmen from the charge of “Social Darwinism.” (h/t Instapundit) In the first place, Herbert Spencer wasn’t much of a Social Darwinist: The truth of the matter, as aggrieved libertarians have… Read More Social Darwinism: The Movement That Wasn’t There
Mixed Tape Masterpiece culls the cream of 80’s Pop for you. Radio VII, side A, track 2: “The One I Love” by R.E.M..
I won’t feign joy that we have the presumed-nominee that we have, but I won’t feign despair, either. Romney is no one’s ideal candidate, but neither is he the doomed mumbling sclerotic hayride of fail that John McCain was. And I think he has a good few advantages going into this election:
53. REM — Reveal I bought this — or rather, my aunt bought it for me, and I may have paid her back — at a Costco, because I saw it on the way out after getting the full Costco experience (the mayonnaise…THE MAYONNAISE). Back in 2001, I thought that it had lovely melodies and… Read More Rating My CD’s: Reveal
Content Blues 