No, conservatives, it's not hypocritical for an actor to support gun control
Every time an actor or actress has the audacity to voice his or her opinion that maybe, just maybe, a nation with more gun-related deaths since 1968 than in all American wars combined needs to take a...
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Hobby Lobby's Steve Green pushing nationwide curriculum to teach the "danger"...
Hobby Lobby's president, Steve Green, really, really does not understand religious freedom. We already know that Green's vision of "religious freedom" is not a personal freedom to believe what you...
View ArticleMatt Walsh has a meltdown over Emily Letts' abortion (grab the popcorn!)
Turns out, you can go on Fox News and talk about how shooting an unarmed teenager was just "God's plan", and right wingers will enrich and worship you. You can gun down, execution style, two...
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The right has finally abandoned its remaining shred of humanity
It used to be that the right wing pretended to have a moral compass. Pretended, in fact, to have the only true moral compass. It wasn't that they hated women and want to pay us less, take away our...
View ArticleMichael Sam is not Tim Tebow, and celebratory kisses are not showy envangelizing
As much as I hate to post on a topic that's been talked to death...there's one aspect that I have not seen addressed as I feel it needs to be. As you almost certainly know, openly gay football player...
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Right-wing gobbles up Sriracha CEO's comment that pollution regulation...
Turns out, a regulation requiring you to put in an air filtration system so that your (very successful) business doesn't flare up allergies and stink your neighbors out for months at a time is the...
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"Thugs with jugs", death threats, insults: gun rights advocates targeting women
Mother Jones has an article on gun activists and their targeting of women that is at once elucidating and mortifying. It details some of the tactics these "responsible gun owners" sink to -- threats,...
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A Wisconsin Spring
So this is a totally non-political photo-heavy journal, highlighting some of the beauties of a Wisconsin spring, particularly as experienced by me and my family. It's 100% a feel good post, of no...
View ArticleCountering Young Earth Creationism: God's regrets, God's Immutability, and...
Should the Genesis story be taken literally as an accurate telling of events? This is the second of an on-going series, examining the flaws in consistency, logic & theology that arise from a...
View ArticleWisconsin recovery weaker than neighboring states, lower than predictions
One of the things I often hear from Scott Walker fans is, "But, look, we're doing better now than before Walker took office! Therefore he's doing a great job." Nevermind the fact that this follows the...
View ArticleThe Wall of Separation between Church and State isn't an atheistic or liberal...
There is a revisionist strain of teaching in modern day American fundamentalism, furthered by frauds like David Barton, that the Wall of Separation is largely a myth. It was not, as the fiction goes,...
View ArticleAtheism & Mythicism: Danger, Will Robinson
I recently caught a program on the newly launched AtheistTV that featured an interview with Richard Carrier, which got me thinking about this topic. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Dr....
View ArticleWhen a corpse has more rights than a woman
Look around the world. Consider the status of women in "pro-life" countries, particularly as relates to the "life of the mother". In countries like Ireland or the Dominican Republic, where laws that...
View ArticleParental rights trump a child's, including his right to life...except...
There's a curious strain of contradictory thought in this country, that posits that, on the one hand, a parent should have absolute control over their child (what they eat, what they wear, what they...
View ArticleSelf proclaimed pro-lifers object to ALS research
So, in case you missed it, the "pro-life" community has its collective panties in a wad over the ice bucket challenge. Shockingly, the same folks who think life is sooooo precious that a live woman...
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A roundup of this week's "Scott Walker says and does the darndest things"...
So, some interesting news from Wisconsin, about our illustrious governor, Scott Walker -- primarily about his dance with unethical and illegal behaviors. For starters, we have this: Newly released...
View ArticleGeorgia gun-nuts give rapists, pedophiles back their guns
So I came across this truly mortifying story, about a Georgia cop who tried to sodomize a woman with his service weapon. That failing, he raped her. Krauss was convicted of sexual assault against a...
View ArticleWalker's WEDC votes for Ashley furniture $6 mil tax credit, owners then...
So just yesterday I posted about some of the ahem peculiar things we're learning about what Scott Walker has been doing in (to?) Wisconsin. One of those items was: And, finally, in an unrelated but...
View ArticleWalker: 2012's "gold standard" jobs numbers "misleading", but "inaccurate"...
So, here we have yet another example of Scott Walker illustrating his disregard for consistency and honesty. Wisconsinites might remember that, during the recall election, some of Walker's opponents...
View Article"Women who really want to be women" are stay-at-home women -- says a bunch of...
In case you missed Fox's self-loathing women segment, here you go: Among many other gems, the authors of "What Women Really Want" (hint: pretty much whatever patriarchal men tell them to want), claim...
View ArticleAnti-gay conservative advocate: death of gay parents, replacement w/hetero...
Laurie Higgins, conservative anti-gay advocate from the Illinois Family Institute (a group, as noted by ThinkProgress' Zack Ford, that has a "storied history of making extremely anti-LGBT comments,...
View ArticleWisconsin shortfall might force budget repair bill despite Walker's brilliant...
So, if you talk to any Wisconsin Republicans, you already know (ahem) that Scott Walker is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Walker has given us forced ultrasounds, repealing equal pay, enacting...
View ArticleBrave atheist to be tortured, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia...Christian...
So in case you haven't heard about Raif Badawi, the Saudi human rights advocate, Friendly Atheist at Patheos Atheist has a very sad update on his fate: Last year, 30-year-old Saudi Arabian blogger Raif...
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Allen West celebrates forcing atheist airmen to pledge to god...and some...
So this article from Allen West showed up in my facebook feed, shared by a family member (who knows I'm an atheist, does not believe I am evil incarnate, and yet still somehow justifies this bigotry...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins' embrace of rape culture
So I happened to stumble on these two items simultaneously: Mark Oppenheimer's article about misogyny in the atheist movement, covering among other things allegations that Michael Shermer plied at...
View ArticleDawkins embraces rape culture, redux: on lying with dogs, and getting up with...
So I'm not the only one who took note of Dawkins' recent expressions of sexism. In fact, I picked up on it a few days later than most (because, to be honest, I'm not on Twitter very much). There was...
View ArticleScott Walker & the Mary Burke plagiarism charges...or, People Who Live in...
If you listen to Wisconsin Republicans, it seems like Mary Burke has been running around with scissors and tape, cutting and fastening snippets of just about everything together to form a jobs plan....
View ArticleBeing transgender is a product of mental illness? So says right wing writer...
There's a fascinating disgusting article at Townhall written by mental health expert right wing bigot John Hawkins. Hawkins, among other things, runs Right Wing News, which shares informative stories...
View ArticleScott Walker: lies, deflections, and to hell with the poor (the minimum wage...
Governor Walker doesn't think the minimum wage should be a living wage. And he finally, with much pressing and after much prevarication, acknowledged it last night.In last night's debate, he declared...
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If the GOP has thoroughly accomplished one thing in the past 6 years, it's this
In six years of professional "No-ing," the GOP has accomplished very little. They've shut down the government, accused the president of trying to destroy the country, cooked up every sort of conspiracy...
View ArticleWisconsin sinking millions into failed private schools
Long before Scott Walker was governor, he was a proponent of voucher schools; since becoming governor, he's continued to expand public monies for private schools. I've mentioned specific examples of...
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Scott Walker's women's outreach: shutting clinics, repealing equal pay,...
During the first 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial debate, Scott Walker wanted to assure voters that he's very reasonable in regards to abortion, and really just has women's health in mind. He's pro-life,...
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Clueless right-wing reactions to Columbus Day
Compliments of the right wing religious clowns at The Political Insider: Genocide? Slavery? Rape? Don't worry, it's all cool: Columbus found "sweet consolation" in his god. He's forgiven, it's cool....
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"Taking back your democracy"
So, Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine is at it again...infusing his (excellent) comic strip with truth: Midterms are notorious for low voter turnout. Everywhere where the GOP has control, they've...
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Scott Walker is the candidate for you...if you pretty much hate everything
Infantilize women? Loathe working people? Fear youth? Despise teachers? Oppose educating future generations? Favor theocracy to the constitution? Prefer indoctrination to education? Think Wisconsin...
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50 reasons to vote for Mary Burke & against Scott Walker
The following are 50 reasons, off the top of my head, to vote for Mary Burke -- and against Scott Walker. Feel free to add your own in the comments.You think pregnant women have a "right to life". Mary...
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Brave right wing site uncovers the latest insidious feminist attack on men
If you follow right wing media, you know that men are under attack. Like traditional marriage and Christmas, men and boys are constantly under siege in this country from the left, and of course, the...
View ArticleIt's time to acknowledge that tolerance of intolerance kills
Leelah Alcorn died last Sunday. After years of censorship, castigation and rejection of her gender identity by strict Christian parents, Leelah took her own life. At 17, she is dead. What a tragedy. In...
View ArticleLemme mansplain this abortion thing
So, honey, you're wondering what's so terrible about abortion? Well lemme mansplain it to ya. Abortion is terrible, horrible, and really bad, because it deprives a man of his right to force his...
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Family Values Shocker: pro-life, gun loving Tea Partier Holly Fisher admits...
So much for family values. Remember Holly Fisher, the tea party star who found internet fame after several of her photos went viral? There was the photo of her posed, gun in one hand, Bible in the...
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Ted Cruz encourages GOP to "lighten up", "crack a joke"
In a stunning show of ingratitude to the party that promoted him to the national scene, Ted Cruz criticized the GOP for lacking a sense of humor. Or at least for failing to display it more often. The...
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Are any GOP presidential hopefuls not heartless frauds, lunatics, bullies,...
A foreshadowing of the GOP primary debates? So I was running through the list of potential candidates for the GOP presidential primaries -- that is, those Republican luminaries who have already...
View ArticleSunday message to those Christians who scream about our "moocher" nation
Dear Conservative Christian: That's right, you. You, with the Facebook page full of the Obama-is-the-Devil and God-is-love messages. You, who are simultaneously incensed over the idea of women having...
View ArticleSunday Message for Christians who Believe in Public Prayer
Dear Conservative Christian,Thank you for joining me a second week in a row, friend, for this special Sunday message. Last week we covered Matthew 25, and the moocher nation. Today, at the kindly...
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For the right-wing, even #RaceTogether is a good excuse to bash them damned...
Commentators on the left had plenty to say about Starbucks' #RaceTogether plan to address the complex issues of racism with your cup of coffee. Even Starbucks' baristas weighed in on what a misplaced...
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Since when did we decide that American discrimination doesn't matter as long...
I must have missed the memo, but since when did we decide that our discrimination doesn't matter as long as someone else, somewhere else, is worse?It seems like the right has adopted this as a go-to...
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The "Special Snowflake" Syndrome of American Conservatives
The "religious freedom" debacles in Indiana and Arkansas have illustrated a lot of important points lately. The big one, of course, is that we as a society are moving past the point where it is...
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Conservative Christian persecution watch: Gay ISIS & the impending...
As you may know, there are few groups as persecuted today as right wing American Christians. Scratch that -- no group as persecuted today as far right American Christians. Hell, there's probably never...
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Dear Conservatives: it's not "love" when you're hurting people
Love is patient, love is kind... love wants to take your rights? After the SCOTUS decided that gay Americans are protected under the constitution too – and so deserve the same marriage rights as...
View ArticleDonald Trump wants to punish women who choose abortion. No, it's not going to...
I see people suggesting — hoping — that Trump’s comments about punishing women who have abortions will hurt him. I disagree that that will happen (as nice as it would be).First, Wanna-be-Jesus (Ted...
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