This past April Fools’ Day, 2013, presented some highly perplexing issues. Because, normally, I would take some absurdly ridiculous news story from the previous year, blow it up way out of scale by taking it to truly deranged and demented levels of extremism, and tell a story on it like what one would find in the […]
On Easter Sunday, an obviously very young boy (I would guess around 11 or 12 years of age) was captured on video protesting a North Carolina church’s recent pledge to stop performing marriage ceremonies until gay marriage is legal. Having grown up in Texas, I have seen children used in such a fashion over the […]
Rachel Maddow connects cocktails and gay rights to highlight the continuing fight for gay rights that played out last week before the Supreme Court last week. Speaking of the fact that many of the stars we see at night are merely light from stars long since extinquished, Maddow makes the following observation: “There are all […]
by Sean Smith Dr. Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon from John’s Hopkins hospital and apparently a regular on Sean Hannity’s show. For those who don’t know Dr. Carson, he is a new rightwing darling who on Hannity Live recently asserted: “Marriage is between and man and a woman. It’s a well-established fundamental pillar of society. […]
By William Boardman [email protected] What Is It Called When You Outsource Your Autonomy? So it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact [1]statement[1] issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That’s the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed […]