December 13, 2005 – 2:04 pm
John Rogers: But it is universally agreed that ‘The War on Christmas’ movement marked the moment that America had become just … too stupid to survive.
September 26, 2005 – 10:29 pm
My favorite comment on the Conservative embrace of March of the Penguins was Carl Zimmer’s list of ideas for other ‘family values’ films based on natural history. Heartwarming, those Stepfathers of the Serengeti.
Heh, badgerbag caught a whiff of decay and undigested fish off that movie long before the NYT article.
It was all about an annoying [...]
March 17, 2005 – 12:00 am
How does one group of conservative Christians plan to deal with the uncertainties of the modern world?
The authors envision a state designed to protect the “integrity” of the home — autonomous family units composed exclusively of one woman, one man, and as many children as possible. As incentive for the mother to stay home and [...]
January 3, 2005 – 12:00 am
I got an email from a parent of a kid at Stevens Creek Elementary, the public school in Cupertino to which the Fox News crowd likes to send death threats, as a follow-up to a post on the school back in December of 2004.
The message was that the parents have put together a site to [...]
Irving Kristol would have you think there are some things, mainly evolutionary biology, that mankind was not ment to know. We’re talking Instrumentalism: the Vampire Slayer.
I relocated, via a comment on Panda’s Thumb, a 1997 article from Reason, a Libertarian magazine, on the Conservative movement’s endorsement of various creationist doctrines such as ID. The writer [...]
Found in the nighly emailed summary of the stories the UK’s Channel Four plans to cover:
From Florida, a new attempt by Governor Jeb Bush, brother of you-know-who, to exclude a great swathe of black voters from the electoral register in the State. He did it before and is trying to do it again, but this [...]
From some notes at Psuedopodium on Cheney feeling better.
Given a newspaper or a cable network, Cthulu’d be an American hero.
January 22, 2004 – 12:00 am
This is vile. So much for the vaunted integrity they claimed. I want to see these people in jail, doing hard time.
December 5, 2003 – 12:00 am
First the airport. Then the jihad against CBS’s counter-revolutionary thought. Now this. Soon we’ll have giant bronze statues of Reagan in every mall, and the Great Leader will review his troops and missiles rolling past Reagan’s Tomb every May Day on the National Mall.
November 15, 2003 – 12:00 am
As Ursula K. Le Guin says, “don’t be a Feminist, but.”
Yes, You Are
Part Two
Feminism has no dress code, special diet, or secret handshake. [ thanks to Laurel ]
On the du Toitification of the the American Conservative
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
The Philosopheraptor
After a comparison of du Toit’s screed to a wet diaper, an acquaintance observed that unlike Kim [...]
October 7, 2003 – 12:00 am
Simon reports that Shrub has a blog.
October 3, 2003 – 12:00 am
My state is about to elect an Austrian movie star into the Governorship. Even if he was the right person for the office, this should still give you pause. I blame celebrity culture.
And it won’t surprise you that I’m voting against the recall, as well as both of the propositions on the ballot, and ask [...]
[ via The Esoteric Science Resource Center ] The bulleted list of defining characteristics of a political conservative, as proposed by a group of UCal researchers, reads like the script from the Spanish Inquisition skit:
Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management
The researchers go on to say:
“For a variety of psychological [...]
[ via Rafe ] The Bush Administration’s opportunistic treatment of science is not new, but the outcome of the GOP’s strategic choice not to woo scientists.
[ via Long Story, Short Pier ] Nathan Newman reports that the Freepers plan on stuffing the ballot box in MoveOn.org’s presidential preference poll.
Their genius plan: register multiple addresses and vote for Reverend Sharpton. Well, it says a great deal about Freepers if they think voting for a black man is embarassing.
The econony needs to [...]
