For those of you who have a hard time figuring out why many on the right so vehemently oppose gay marriage, I found this comment to be very worthwhile: Oh, c’mon. It’s perfectly obvious why the GOP views “homosexual marriage” as dangerous and undermining to the “traditional marriage” structure. It’s all about maintaining a certain …
Archives for June 2006
Not Getting It
I am not a lawyer. Longtime readers will recognize the pattern that emerges everytime I discuss a legal ruling I do not like. For the newer readers, the pattern is: 1.) I see a story about a court ruling that infuriates me. 2.) I get the vapors, and immediately write a hasty and frosty post …
Look, A Rabbit
I simply am not going to get exercised about the Gay Marriage Amendment nonsense anymore, because there is no point. It is not even going to get out of the Senate: But Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will vote against it on the floor but allowed it to survive his panel in …
Open Thread
Cry havoc, and let slip the prairie dogs of chat. Try not to break an ankle.
Putting The Net To Good Use
Via a reader, both the WaPo and the New Yorker have features on the growing networking of the global jihadist movement and the pissed-off women working to bring them down. From the WaPo: Like a hunter using a duck call, Shannen Rossmiller invites the online attentions of would-be terrorists by adorning her e-mail with video …
Geneva Who?
The new Pentagon guidelines for detainee treatment do not mention the relevant parts of the Geneva Convention: The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, …
The Central Front In The War On Stupid Semantic Tricks
Former Kos headliner Hunter has an important diary about one of those irritating rhetorical tricks that war defenders never seem to get tired of using, be it Peter Beinart or Glenn Reynolds or some random board warrior: More and more, I’m seeing pro-war figures look for a healing, of sorts, between those who supported the …
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