At least Fox News seems to think so.

Silly Lou Dobbs. Everyone knows you don't get leprosy from "unscreened illegal immigrants coming into this country primarily from South Asia", but from Negroes.

Although if this is what counts as "far better reporting", then I suspect that such unabashed, blatant racism might very well cause leprosy in more sensitive viewers.

Have you ever wanted to see a bear kill a moose and eat its heart? Well, apparently now you can!
Gary got up, expecting to see a bear in the trash or a similar scene. He saw the bear all right, but the rest of the scene was beyond imagination ( Read more... )

At last, America has its revenge!
Watching the Hollywood film "Babel" could make viewers feel ill, its Japanese distributor said in national newspaper advertisements published on Wednesday ( Read more... )

Last week there was a hearing concerning the Bush administration's use of extraordinary rendition. You know, where people were kidnapped, flown to foreign countries and tortured based on mere suspicion of terrorist activities. Well, apparently if you have a problem with that, Representative Dana Rohrabacher thinks that you're un-American and ( Read more... )

The Bush administration apparently cannot stand the possibility that gays might get any sort of protections.
Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law ( Read more... )

Via onegoodmove, I stumbled across a blog entry that has some videos available of the Connecticut Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the Marriage Equality Bill (and links to other sites with more items).

And watching some of this could go a long way to explaining why the committee voted as it did. The testimony against the bill is ludicrous. ( Read more... )

Connecticut's Judiciary Committee voted 27-15 to legalize gay marriage yesterday. I think this story demonstrates two basic facets of this whole debate: 1) those opposed are opposed because they think there is something fundamentally different between an opposite-sex couple and a same-sex couple:
[Bruce] Morris, a minister at Bethel AME Church in ( Read more... )

A while ago, my brother asked me to find a clip of an exchange he saw briefly during Al Gore's testimony to Congress. Through a bit of serendipity, I stumbled across it today--now you too can watch Barbara Boxer tell James Inhofe that Republicans don't run things now because "elections have consequences ( Read more... )

Wayne Besen, of Truth Wins Out, an organization devoted to countering disinformation spread by ex-gays and anti-gays, appeared on The Daily Show the other day. YouTube video here.

All I can say is--that kiss at the end? Hot.

...well, I could probably say more. But maybe after a cold shower or something.