For a while I was getting worried. Pat Robertson had started saying sensible things, such as that religious people should not be saying things like the age of the Earth is just 6,000 years old that oppose well established scientific facts, and that marijuana should be legalized. I was afraid that these were signs that we had entered some strange alternate universe. [Read more…]
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show comments amusingly on something that has struck me too, and that is why is it that the thought of same-sex marriage seems to drive opponents so crazy that they immediately start making the most outlandish arguments. [Read more…]
Listen to this Catholic priest who argues on Fox that opponents of gay marriage are now the victimized ones, the oppressed ones. What is amazing is that he thinks it is unfair and outside the bounds of civilized debate to characterize certain views as bigotry while at the same time he thinks nothing of referring to people as sinners. And even though many religious people believe that sinners go to hell where they face everlasting torment, that is supposed to perfectly acceptable to say. [Read more…]
Larry Wilmore and Jon Stewart have one of their entertaining and insightful discussions on race in America on The Daily Show, this time dealing with the recent Republican efforts at improving their message to court minorities. [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert does an analysis of the GOP’s new report on why they think they lost the last election and what they plan to do about it. One strategy is to use celebrities to court the youth vote and Colbert and suggests some names of conservative celebrities that will be surefire hits with the young. [Read more…]
Today is Easter Sunday, one of the two times of the year (Christmas being the other one of course) when Christians get past their obsession with the doom and gloom of original sin and death and hell, and look on the bright side of life, seeing in the resurrection of Jesus a new beginning and hope for the future. [Read more…]
I fully expected to see The Daily Show and The Colbert Report devote considerable time to the oral arguments on same-sex marriage before the US Supreme Court and they did not disappoint. Here they are. [Read more…]
Jonathan Chait writes that the opponents of same-sex marriage see the writing on the wall, that they have lost the battle in the public mind and likely in the courts too and that some of them are now looking for ways to change their stance without looking too opportunistic while others want to avoid being targeted as bigots. [Read more…]
When their older child claimed that her two-year old brother was going into her room and taking stuff, the parents suggested that she lock her door, She then said she did so and was still losing stuff. So the parents set up a camera to see what was going on and this is what they saw. [Read more…]