Hiatus

for the semester.

Sarah Palin is a True American

because she understands the need to be a hateful bitch about everything, but most recently about that mosque. Wonkette expresses my feelings well. Here is an excerpt:

Somebody is not getting it! Somebody is being insensitive! Perhaps with some education, Sarah Palin could understand that “those Muslims” are Americans. And perhaps she might understand that the mosque that is ALREADY THERE gets pretty crowded! That is one reason why it would be good to put another one in this location! And perhaps she can understand that cities are places where people are not just white and Christian! And perhaps, for a fucking second, she can try to understand how it feels when somebody hates you and associates you with terrorists because of your religion or your name or the color of your skin, even though you love your country. And then perhaps she can understand that she does not live in this fucking neighborhood and has no idea what should or should not be built there. There is probably a crazy homeless man who masturbates at the World Trade Center site every day, but she has no idea.

*Apologies about the language for the easily offended.

Stoning

Two young lovers are stoned to death by relatives and villagers in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan. There are no words for this.

Hello from the people of earth.

Greetings from the People of Earth from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

The Mormon PR Machine

Mini Sculpture

Tiny sculptures carves in the graphite of old pencils. More here.

Ann Coulter & The Gays

Some gay GOP-ers invited Ann Coulter to their shindig, and she said yes, and everyone was confused. Here's Wonkette being funny about it.

And here's some really adorable stuff Ann has said about the gays in the past. She's so droll.

Tax Cuts

More here.

Illegal Immigration

A gut-wrenching exposé of what illegal immigrants have to go through to get here.

Maddow on DADT

AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sarah Palin makes my head want to explode. I really enjoy the eye-rolling when the woman states she's a teacher. Teachers are such losers!

Anti-DADT Ad

WWII on Facebook

It's in poor taste, but it's mildly amusing.

Dogs Chasing Cars

Here is a great article titled, "Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty," about Republican Bob Inglis who lost his Congressional primary race in South Carolina. A sampling:

While he was campaigning, Inglis says, tea party activists and conservative voters kept pushing him to describe Obama as a "socialist." But, he says, "It's a dangerous strategy to build conservatism on information and policies that are not credible...This guy is no socialist." He continues:

The word is designed to have emotional charge to it. Throughout my primary, there were people insisting that I use the word. They would ask me if he was a socialist, and I would always find some other word. I'd say, "President Obama wants a very large government that I don't think will work and that spends too much and it's inefficient and it compromises freedom and it's not the way we want to go." They would listen for the word, wait to see if I used the s-word, and when I didn't, you could see the disappointment.

Why not give these voters what they wanted? Inglis says he wasn't willing to lie:

I refused to use the word because I have this view that the Ninth Commandment must mean something. I remember one year Bill Clinton—the guy I was out to get [when serving on the House judiciary committee in the 1990s]—at the National Prayer Breakfast said something that was one of the most profound things I've ever heard from anybody at a gathering like that. He said, "The most violated commandment in Washington, DC"—everybody leaned in; do tell, Mr. President—"is, 'Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.'" I thought, "He's right. That is the most violated commandment in Washington." For me to go around saying that Barack Obama is a socialist is a violation of the Ninth Commandment. He is a liberal fellow. I'm conservative. We disagree...But I don't need to call him a socialist, and I hurt the country by doing so. The country has to come together to find a solution to these challenges or else we go over the cliff.

and

With Boehner and others chasing after the tea party, he says, "that's going to be the dog that catches the car." He quickly adds: "And the Democrats, if they go into the minority, are going to have an enjoyable couple of years watching that dog deal with the car it's caught."

Prop 8

I generally have some compassion for far-right gay haters who turn out to be closeted homosexuals. However, when Tony Perkins has a big fat gay scandal, I'll really have to dig deep to find any compassion. Click here to see him being a lying liar and getting called on it. (I can't get the embed code to work...clearly my blog doesn't care for Tony Perkins either.)
Also, I really love that being gay makes the judge biased in a case that supposedly affects heterosexual marriage. I mean, that's the basis of their entire case. So wouldn't a heterosexual judge also be biased? Silly me, applying logic.

Here's a video of Ted Olson being smart and well-spoken on Fox News.

People, like, literally don't know the meaning of the word literally

David Cross expresses my feelings. (*Note: cursing abounds.)

Gay Marriage