Not Fit For Human Consumption

Are Americans really dumb enough to swallow anything just because it comes in a familiar package? If you wanna taste the ruse, you must click it. • If men would maintain their freedom, they must, after having chosen their charter of liberty, provide for its wise, intelligent, and fearless interpretation to the end that there may be prevented: 1. Usurpation …

The Perils Of HypoChrissy

We can hope, can’t we?  Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware,  running as a member of the Republican Party.  Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …

Newt Bites The Big One

Newton Leroy Gingrich announced that “there should be no mosque near ground zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.”

Gozer Gingrich v. The Kenyan Anticolonialist

Ghostbuster’s Gozer the Traveller taking the form of the dreaded Gangrene Gingrich Not much time for writing today, so forgive this extensive cut and paste job, which pretty much covers the arguments surrounding 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s latest lurch to the right to capture what’s left of the party’s base, aka the Teabaggers. HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the headline …

Open Cordoba House (Update)

Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain If I were to write a script that pitted a protagonist who spent his life building bridges between peoples of diverse faiths and cultures against  a hate filled, bigoted antagonist dedicated to tearing them down,  I couldn’t find a better ‘ripped from the headlines’ duo to base it on than Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf …

Christian Taliban To Burn Qu’rans

Christian Taliban leader Terry Jones burned in effigy in Afghanistan This Saturday on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, members of a small Muslim hating Christian group, ironically called Dove World Outreach Church, plan to burn a pile of Qu’rans to demonstrate their hatred of Islam. It’s not like we haven’t been down this road before. Five years ago reports of …

Arizona Train Wreck Brewing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] “I have done so much.” “We have done everything we could possibly do.” “We have did [sic] what was right for Arizona.” If you can’t be focused when it counts, what are you like when it doesn’t count?