Y’all know about these awards, right? Today, on what was billed Gun Appreciation Day by its organizers1, at least five people were injured in accidents involving the very things they were trying to appreciate. Three of them were injured in Raleigh, NC, when one particular idiot “was unfastening the case of his 12-gauge shotgun on …
I’m going to indulge in some schadenfreude here. For 30 years we’ve gotten accustomed to seeing columns in the media declaring “Democrats in Disarray,” sometimes with merit, other times with none. It does my heart good to see an article in the New York Times with this headline: “G.O.P. Begins Soul-Searching After Tax Vote” and …
If Nolan Ryan were Romney’s choice for Vice President, he’d carry Texas and maybe dent Obama’s vote totals in New York and California, but it’s that other Ryan who’s been picked. Paul Ryan, who wants to cut taxes even more deeply than Romney himself, in addition to his well-publicized desire to change Medicare into a …
Want some links to lie and hypocrisy debunking? Go read Fred Clark. Among the lies: the false claim that the EPA is using drones to spy on farmers. The truth is, it’s using small planes to inspect water safety. Also: the odious Tony Perkins of the equally odious Family Research Council justifying the organization giving …
Now here’s a priest who sees clearly what’s happening in the Vatican and why it’s attacking nuns. The Vatican is hypocritical and duplicitous. Their belief is always that someone else needs to clean up their act; the divorced, the gays, the media, the US nuns, the Americans who were using the wrong words to pray, …
(click to enlarge) Ladies and Gentlemen, what House Republicans want to cut in order to save Pentagon programs the Joint Chiefs have already determined they don’t need or can eliminate. From the Center for American Progress
Oh fer . . . Our distinguished US House (The People’s House!) voted today to discontinue the American Community Survey, a part of the Census which has been around since 1790. Why? “It would seem that these questions hardly fit the scope of what was intended or required by the Constitution,” said Rep. Daniel Webster …
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So Romney hires a former United States communications guy at the UN to be his foreign policy spokesman on April 20 of this year. The guy has a wealth of experience flakking for Bush and Bolton, which makes him less than satisfactory to me, but I don’t get a voice. He’s also openly gay, and …
I was baptized Catholic. I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic. I stopped practicing the faith when I went to college, not out of principle but more that I found other things to do on Sunday mornings. Nonetheless, I still have some residual feelings for the Church. That is why I keep writing about …
Well, not really, I suppose. Nevertheless, it’s heartening to see that six Catholic parishes in Washington State have essentially told the Vatican’s Seattle Archbishop that they want nothing to do with collecting signatures to overturn that state’s new marriage-equality law. One of the priests even got a standing ovation from his parishioners for expressing sentiments …