Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2647

Phallic Day On The Dish, Ctd

A reader writes:

I believe the supportive evidence that you did not initially notice the
phallic resemblances lies in the fact that the penises in question have
obviously been circumcised.

Phallus - Health - Medicine - Handhelds - WWW

The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy" Ctd

A thousand words:

More photos from Rush's fourth wedding here.

United States - History - IPhone - Microsoft - Apple

The Beard Craze Grows

I've never seen so much facial hair on so many young dudes as I have this summer in Provincetown. Most encouraging. But titi monkeys getting in on the trend?
















Titi - Facial hair - Monkey - Primate - Animal

The Mosque, The Confederate Flag ... And "Offense"

A reader writes:

When there was a debate in South Carolina over whether itsstatehouse should fly the Confederate battle flag, African-Americans said theywere offended by the state's honoring a flag that stood for theenslavement of their ancestors.  Many white southerners responded bysaying that they should not be held responsible for the misdeeds of theirpredecessors, that not all southerners were racist, and that they had a rightto honor their heritage, even if some chose to be offended.  In ...

"Not An Ounce Of Contrition"

There is some bizarre notion among the punditocracy that the Obama administration cannot and should not blame Bush and the GOP for the awful recession, looming tax rises and entitlement cuts, endless wars, tainted moral standing, crumbling infrastructure and massive debt that Obama inherited. I think this is foolish. Because it means this president not only has to take responsibility for his own policies, but for the legacy that has made his job close to impossible.

This is a recession caused ...

Tortured In Phoenix

The Village Voice has a riveting story from "inside America's kidnapping capital."
















Village Voice - Arts - Voice Actors - Animation - Business

Phallic Day On The Dish

Yes, and that ice-island is pretty tumescent as well. Unintended. Honest.
















Liposuction - Recreation - People - End-of-Life - Right to Die

The Only Solution May Be Technology

 

Brad Plumer writes:

Biochar has always sounded like a whimsical climate solution that's too good to be true. Simply stir a little charcoal into the soil and—voila—it's supposedly possible to suck thousands of tons of carbon-dioxide out of the air. Sounds suspicious, no? And yet it just might work. A new study in Nature Communications finds that the world could, in theory, sustainably offset a whopping 12 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions by producing biochar.

That study is

Support For Marriage Equality Accelerating? Ctd

No, I didn't quite see the phallic nature of that graph when I posted it. But thanks for letting me know. Pervs.
















Relationships - People - Police - United States - IPhone

Happy Fourth

Julian Sanchez gamely explains the significance of a new Fourth Amendment ruling, and the particular kind of privacy it protects.
















Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Law - Government - United States - Fourth Amendment