Big Bad John? Ah, jeez … now I’m actually a little embarassed for him

No way am I going to embed a John Cornyn video here, so you’ll have to visit Pink Lady to see just how ludicrous his new ad is.
The condensed version (with apologies to Gary Larson): I’m a cowboy! Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!
This is what happens when a chickenhawk Republican who’s never been in harm’s [...]

The hunter becomes the game

From The Uptake, via Huffpo:
At the National Conference for Media Reform 2008, a producer for FOX’s The O’Reilly Factor, Porter Barry, ambushes PBS’s Bill Moyers and peppers him with questions regarding his political affiliations and his “refusal” to appear on O’Reilly’s show. Moyers disputes FOX’s “facts” for the record and asks to interview someone at [...]

Christian family values on parade

Isn’t Mike Huckabee supposed to be some kind of big pious Christian? What part of the Bible says it’s okay for a politician to joke about the assassination of another politician?
I wonder what kind of “no harm, no foul” bullshit excuse/explanation/apology is going to be given for this?
During a speech before the National Rifle [...]

Happy Codpiece Day

Yesterday’s gaggle, via the obsessed one:
(this is Helen Thomas asking the questions, bless her)
Q Me? How does the President intend to commemorate “Mission Accomplished” after five years of death and destruction?
MS. PERINO: What you’re referring to is the banner that ran — that was aboard the ship five years ago. President Bush –
Q I’m talking [...]

Usurped by certain ladies

Hey, ladies! You … yes, you gay ladies! Stop that usurping right now! Now!

(Athens) A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos - home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between [...]

Nope, Sen. Cornyn, I’m still single

FYI to Texas Senator John Cornyn, I am a gay person, more specifically a lesbian. Also FYI, there was a very handsome box turtle in my yard for several days this week. Thirdly, be aware that during that entire time, neither myself or the box turtle were moved to set up housekeeping with [...]

Sunday morning coming down video: Whore out your children, this is America!

Arcade Fire’s Building Downtown (AntiChrist Television Blues), about the man that said of his child, “She’s got double D’s. You can’t cover those suckers up!”

Embarassments R us

PZ Myers has been following, here and here, the Institute for Creation Research’s attempts (which have, alarmingly, been mostly successful) at getting legitimate state accreditation from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).
I’m with PZ, and the Texas Citizens for Science — this is appalling, ghastly stuff. Especially coming as it does on [...]

Huckabee was concerned for “the general population”

Huckabee “clarified” his 1992 statement calling for an AIDS quarantine:
We now know that the virus that causes AIDS is spread differently, with a lower level of contact than with TB. But looking back almost 20 years, my concern was the uncertain risk to the general population – if we got it wrong, many people would [...]

What’s that thing they say about a broken clock?

The clouds break and Peggy Noonan sees the light…. for a brief, fleeting second:
My feeling is we’ve bowed too far to the idiots. This is true in politics, journalism, and just about everything else.
It’s at the very end of the otherwise Noonanish piece.