This site will let you “adopt” a random unindicted co-conspirator. Here’s my new boy, isn’t he cute? Cigars all around for the new arrival. There’s no checking to be sure the email is really yours, so feel free to adopt cardinals for all your friends. Just remember not to treat your new adoptee the way …
Religious Nuts
“Going Clear”: Suppressive Persons vs. Xenu’s Defenders
Michael Kinsley was no doubt delighted to get his latest NYTimes book review assignment: … Wright’s book, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief,” makes clear that Scientology is like no church on Earth (or, in all probability, Venus or Mars either). The closest institutional parallel would be the Communist Party in its …
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Stay Classy, FRC
Maybe Chris Matthews will ask Tony Perkins about this the next time he is on to spew bile about homosexuals: The former director of women’s and reproductive health at the Family Research Council, a prominent Christian conservative advocacy group, is suing the organization, claiming it retaliated against her and fired her after she filed a …
Our Big Fat Gay Election
I thought witnessing the Great PUMA Tantrum of Aught-Eight in real time was fun, but it turns out that was just the bagged crudité tray before the grand schadenfreude banquet that is the Colossal Wingnut Bed-Shitting of 2012. Good times! But among all the very many reasons to be happy today, one of my favorite …
The Totalitarian Mind
From the great state of Oklahoma (Oklahoma judge refuses to let men planning sex-change operations have feminine names): District Judge Bill Graves has denied name changes in two such cases so far — last year and again in August. The judge ruled both times the requests were made for a fraudulent purpose. …. “A so-called …
Monday Evening Open Thread: The Jeebus Card
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) While we’re on the topic of religion and its place in the public realm, don’t miss Mr. Charles P. Pierce speaking for us People of Faith: Over the weekend, Willard Romney, a most preposterous man, gave one of the most preposterous speeches ever delivered by an American politician. The presumptive nominee …
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The So-Called Pro-Life Party
They stop caring about you the moment you are born: Leticia Parra, a mother of five scraping by on income from her husband’s sporadic construction jobs, relied on the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Carlos, an impoverished town in South Texas, for breast cancer screenings, free birth control pills and pap smears for cervical cancer. …