After Newt Gingrich’s unexpected big win in the South Carolina primaries, I said that we could expect the Republican party establishment and the oligarchy to freak out and make every attempt to drive a stake through his campaign’s heart.
And lo, as the prophets spake, so it has come to pass, with the attacks on Gingrich coming so thick and fast from every direction that he must be thinking that he is living in the Book of Revelation.
The conservative media chattering class has [Read more…]
A court in Kingston, Ontario has convicted an Afghan immigrant, his wife, and son of first degree murder for the deaths of his first wife (it was a polygamous marriage) and his three daughters (aged 19, 17, and 13), apparently because they disapproved of the behavior of the daughters and [Read more…]
The second most senior cleric in the Church of England says that marriage must remain between a man and a woman and society should not attempt to change it because “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. It is set in tradition and history and you can’t just (change it) overnight, no matter how powerful you are.”
History and traditions can be powerful and even good things but if they are your only arguments against a practice then it is pretty clear that you have a very weak case.
I have written before that men under the age of around 25 tend to do really stupid things.
Further evidence in support of this comes from a recent story in a Cleveland suburb where three students sent in phony [Read more…]
As we all know, billboards with atheist messages seem to arouse indignant responses because of their purported offensiveness. Richard Wade wonders if it is the message itself or simply the fact that the word ‘atheist’ appears in the billboard sponsor’s name that drives believers up the wall.
To test his hypothesis, he suggests a number of billboards. Pretty funny.
(Thanks to reader Fu Dayi.)
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