I had forgotten about this. Well, I'd never actually seen this video clip, but I recall Alan Keyes claiming that allowing gays to marry and have children would lead to incest because said children wouldn't know who their siblings are. Which is a perfect example of the above mock-definition ( Read more... )

I found this on a Google search the other night. It's hilarious--an attempt to show that the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers were coded symbols of white supremacy:
Let us take each ranger, one at a time first ( Read more... )

So apparently some (well-funded) crackpots are making a movie, Expelled, about how intelligent design is being shunned by scientists, some sort of conspiracy by Big Science to keep the edgy, new theory from getting its due hearing ( Read more... )

Jonathan Schwarz drudges up a YouTube video of Dick Cheney from April '94, explaining why deposing Saddam Hussein would have been such a very bad idea in the first Gulf War. Here's part of it:
Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place?
You know, I used to just assume ( Read more... )

38 years ago today, man first walked on the moon.

"The Eagle has landed."

And yes, dammit, we landed on the moon. I think Buzz Aldrin has the right idea on how to deal with moon-deniers.

Denialism Blog has a post up, Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This is a topic that's come up quite a bit in my house lately--specifically with regard to those who don't believe we landed on the moon--so I thought it might be of interest. One thing that they highlight that may be significant is this:
So what kind of thought processes ( Read more... )

For the first time in our history, a Hindu chaplain gave the daily prayer that opened the Senate proceedings yesterday. According to Reuters Hajan Zed had been invited by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And it didn't sit well with people who don't seem to get that the Constitution nowhere says "for Christians only". Ed Brayton has several ( Read more... )

Not everyone's happy covering Paris Hilton:
An American newsreader has refused to talk about Paris Hilton's release from jail - instead shredding, ripping up and attempting to set on fire copies of the story.

On MSNBC's Morning Joe program, anchor Mika Brzezinski lashed out at producers for continually choosing the Paris Hilton release story as ( Read more... )

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Season 1, Volume 2, to be released October 9!

Alabama State Senator Charles Bishop hit Senator Lowell Baron in the middle of the Senate floor. Quoting from the Birmingham News blog post:
Bishop in an interview later said Barron called him a s...o...b, so he hit Barron in the face.

"If he calls me that again, it'll happen again," Bishop said.

I happen to like one of the commenter's endings ( Read more... )