It never really occurred to me that the problem with nested comments is that it makes it more difficult to find the new ones in a thread. So consider this a vote: Do you prefer the comments nested or unnested?
Daily Archive: August 10, 2012
Aug 10 2012
Hey Look, Comment Threads
I’m a little late to the party in setting the comments section to allow for nested comment threads, which helps follow who is responding to whom. But all the cool bloggers are doing it, so I’ve finally gotten around to changing the settings to allow it.
Aug 10 2012
Bigot Burns Gay Cheerios
Okay, this may be the funniest and most pathetic thing you’ll watch all week. Some dumbfuck bigot decided to protest against General Mills supporting marriage equality by setting a box of Cheerios on fire, but he ended up torching the company’s front lawn instead and then had to stomp it out.
Aug 10 2012
Court Upholds Hawaii Ban on Same Sex Marriage
A federal district court has upheld Hawaii’s ban on same-sex marriage, which was passed by popular referendum. The state then legalized civil unions that apparently offer all the same rights at the state level, but not federal rights like the right to change immigration status. You can read the full ruling here.
Aug 10 2012
Romney Courts the Crazies
Mitt Romney continues to kiss the rings of every whackjob on the right he can find. While I was in Denver last week, so was Romney, meeting with Gary Bauer, James Dobson, Tony Perkins and Jerry Boykin. Boykin is the worst of this very bad group, for reasons I’ve documented on this blog many times …
Aug 10 2012
Wingnut on Wingnut Crime: McCarthy vs Gaffney
Frank Gaffney and Andrew McCarthy are partners-in-stupid when it comes to their ridiculously paranoid claims that America is on the verge of being taken over by Sharia law. But Gaffney is also a birther and claims that Obama is likely a Muslim rather than a Christian. So when McCarthy and Gaffney held a joint press …
Aug 10 2012
Missouri Passes Bad Religious Amendment
I’m sure you know by now that Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum on Tuesday that purported to supporta “right to pray” — a right that is already protected, of course. But the law is a trojan horse that will inevitably lead to serious lawsuits. Here’s the relevant text of the amendment:
Aug 10 2012
Publisher Pulls Barton’s Jefferson Book
Wow. This is very surprising to me and is sure to provoke howls of protest and claims of persecution from Barton, Glenn Beck and the rest of those liars. Thomas Nelson has decided to pull David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies because it contains so many falsehoods.
Aug 10 2012
Thunderfoot’s Unethical Obsession
I was hoping to not have to do this for another day or two, but the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. As everyone who reads this network is no doubt aware, on July 1 we made the decision to remove Thunderfoot from the Freethought Blogs network, only a short time after …
Aug 10 2012
Jay Sekulow: Shameless Liar
Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice is a very accomplished attorney. And about 20 years ago, I got to know his brother Scott slightly, who countered my strong criticism of his brother by insisting to me that he was a good, decent man. I call bullshit. Jay Sekulow is a shameless …
Aug 10 2012
LA School’s Appalling Policy on Student Pregnancy
The ACLU is demanding that a public charter school in Delhi, Louisiana immediately rescind an appalling policy that requires female students they suspect of being pregnant to take a mandatory pregnancy test or be expelled or forced to be home schooled.
Aug 10 2012
How the Media Promotes Non-Existent ‘Gaffes’
Michael Brendan Dougherty, writing at The American Conservative, makes a good point about how the media helps the campaigns promote absurd “gaffes” that are really just distortions of what was said. He points to two obvious examples — the Democrats using Romney’s “I like being able to fire people” comment entirely out of context and …
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