Oh dear God in heaven. There goes PBS. From an interview in the NYT Magazine with the new interim president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: As the chief executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, you’ve been said to represent the growing influence of conservative politics in public TV and radio. Believe it or …
In the “Oh, get a life” department, I happened to hear the top of ESPN’s SportsCenter last night. Mel Kiper, Chris Berman, and some other guy (Mortenson, maybe?) were talking about Saturday’s NFL draft. I heard Kiper say something like “I’ll take a lot of memories away from this day.” What? It’s a damn football …
Frank Rich takes on Justice Sunday. He told me something I didn’t know, too. Tonight’s megachurch setting and pseudoreligious accouterments notwithstanding, the actual organizer of “Justice Sunday” isn’t a clergyman at all but a former state legislator and candidate for insurance commissioner in Louisiana, Tony Perkins. He now runs the Family Research Council, a Washington …
Lance Mannion agrees with Senator Frist and Tony Perkins (head honcho of the Family Research Council) that Democrats do indeed want to discriminate against people of faith. The question is, though, what varieties of faith do the Democrats find unacceptable? Ah, let him enumerate.
You may have read that Senator Santorum thinks the National Weather Service is giving away too much data for free, so he wants to prohibit them from doing so, to benefit his friends at Accuweather. Well, Billmon has some thoughts on that idea.
Remember the telecast the Family Research Council plans with Senator Frist? Well, the good Doctor/Senator is under fire: Religious groups, including the National Council of Churches and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, plan to conduct a conference call with journalists on Friday to criticize Senator Frist’s participation in the telecast. The program is …
Michael Tomasky writes an excellent column about Tom Delay. It should have shocked the media, whose job it is to protect our civic institutions, a long time ago that the Congress of the United States is run today as a rampantly undemocratic fief. Any casual conversation with a Democratic Hill staffer will lead without fail …
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On John Paul II’s death, I wrote over here as follows: As a former Catholic, I can appreciate the office and the ritual, but I disagreed with the man and his leading of his Church back to pre-Vatican II days. I’m glad he didn’t suffer, but I hope they pick a replacement Pope who’s a …
So which publication is going to be the first to use the phrase Pope Ben?