Perhaps you've heard of James Dobson? He's a moral crusader. You know the type--the pseudo-friendly evangelist type that just wants to protect people from their worst impulses, like women working, that sort of thing. He's the sort of curmudgeonly old dude you can't believe is able to survive the daily affront to his delicate sensibilities that is a ( Read more... )

Some stupidity that is so tremendously weak you can beat up on it is kinda fun, in its way. From yesterday's post, I found another gem from that same commenter at Savage Blog. It's a dooooooosy:

There was a measure of irresponsibility here on the part of the prospective parents, there's no question about that. It could've been handled in a more ( Read more... )

Wow, two uses of that "I hate people" tag in one day ( Read more... )

Terrorism works.

It has been a week and a few days since Dr. Tiller was murdered. In that time, the anti-choice freakshow has barely restrained itself from saying outright that they are glad Dr. Tiller is dead. (You can bleat all you want about "abhoring violence" but your violent and provocative bullshit says otherwise.) Even so, you had that guy ( Read more... )

I found out on Sunday about George Tiller's murder, and I really just deflated. ( There is no way God forgives this. )

A school bus decided 6:00 am was a good time to honk outside of our building this morning. There was on-off but regular beeping for at least twenty minutes. It started with a double-tap, transitioned to alarm-clock-like beeps in steady sequence, and rounded off with full horn blasts for five seconds at a time ( Read more... )

Why does it take the judge being corrupt to make this not okay?

The kids are all right. Until a bunch of self-righteous pricks overcriminalize them. Then we create problems that we didn't have before.

Listen to some of the audio from the victims. The last two are especially frightening. These were two kids who hadn't done anything wrong at all, ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for the BSG series finale. Beware of cursing. )

The last post about assholes on the message boards at TWoP, I promise ( Read more... )

( tl; dr: BSG is sexist, get over it, me. (No spoilers for tonight.) )