Jonathan Chait writes that the opponents of same-sex marriage see the writing on the wall, that they have lost the battle in the public mind and likely in the courts too and that some of them are now looking for ways to change their stance without looking too opportunistic while others want to avoid being targeted as bigots. [Read more…]
When their older child claimed that her two-year old brother was going into her room and taking stuff, the parents suggested that she lock her door, She then said she did so and was still losing stuff. So the parents set up a camera to see what was going on and this is what they saw. [Read more…]
Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow points out that pundits who are always wrong never pay any price as long as they are wrong in the service of the powerful. [Read more…]
… or maybe not. An example of why you should be wary of even animal videos on the internet. But you have to admit, it looked like people had a lot of fun making the rescue video. I am not so sure about how much the pig and goat enjoyed it, though the pig was a professional and was no doubt well paid. [Read more…]
This video makes a compelling case that the official story as told in the Star Wars saga was a lie to cover up the much darker truth of exactly who was behind that event and why they may have done it. [Read more…]
Once in a while I mosey over to the website The Thinking Housewife, to savor once more that old-time world where women stayed at home in order to better meet their husbands’ needs, with god looking benevolently over that tranquil scene. [Read more…]
I watched this film last evening and it was good fun. It stars Will Ferrell as the incumbent congressman of a North Carolina district who is expecting to run unopposed until a misstep by him suggests weakness and prompts two wealthy brothers (thinly disguised versions of the real life Koch brothers) to back someone who will be beholden to them and allow them to transfer their sweatshops in China back to the US so that they can save shipping costs and thus increase their profits. [Read more…]
Andy Borowitz says that Cardinal Bonifacius Steuer of the Netherlands, who had dreamed about being pope from his childhood and expected to easily win the papacy, was bitter about his unexpected defeat and blamed the media for misrepresenting who he was. [Read more…]
Brian Keith Dalton is a ‘Formon’ (former Mormon) and he shares with us the things he no longer believes, starting with the least crazy and moving up the scale of craziness. What is interesting is how even the least crazy sounds pretty crazy. (Via Machines Like Us.) [Read more…]
In one episode of the BBC TV faux documentary comedy series Life’s Too Short, actor Warwick Davis decides he needs some spirituality in his life and decides to explore a couple of religions to see if one of them might suit him. [Read more…]
