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Breaking News: The Vatican Is Super-Gay

I haven't commented on this dog-bites-man story of the Vatican being crammed to the gills with homosexual priests who have long since abandoned the increasingly frantic anti-gay ideology of Ratzinger. And most of the commentary has rightly focused on the extreme response of the Vatican - defrock them now for consensual adult sex! - compared with the long tolerance of child rape and abuse. But it is worth noting, once again, how utterly hollow the Vatican is on the subject of...

Quote For The Day

"I am sure Ezra had good intentions when he created it, but I am offended the right is using this as a sledgehammer against those of us who don't practice activist journalism.Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in with journalists with an agenda. Those folks who thought they were improving journalism are destroying the credibility of journalism.This has kept me up nights. I try to be fair. It's very depressing," - Chuck Todd.



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The Samson Syndrome

Classic movie beard-shaving scenes. I look away.
















Shaving - Arts - Razor - Facial hair - Hair

"They" Ctd

The cultures of Cheney and Palin are converging over opposition to the building of a mosque in Temecula, California:

An e-mail alert sent to area newspapers last week announced that aone-hour "singing – praying – patriotic rally" will begin at 12:30 p.m.July 30 at the Islamic Center's existing facility. The advisory – sentby a leader of a conservative coalition that has been active withRepublican and Tea Party functions – recommended participants "bringyour Bibles, flags, signs, dogs and...

Waiting On Innovation, Ctd

Douthat follows up:

Imagine that a more perfect version of cap-and-trade could have beensmoothed into law by G.O.P. support. And let's further bracket Manzi's favorite debating terrain,the (extremely important) question of whether the costs of a carbon capare worth the expected economic benefit, given the likely damagewrought by climate change. Even then, I still don't understand howprogressives can believe — especially in the wake of the Copenhagansummit — that this bill actually opens the...

"Good News, Everyone!"

A reader asks if I was channeling Professor Farnsworth. Indeed I was. The new Futurama season? Trying a teensy bit too hard, in my view. But still brilliant in flashes, and they'll get their groove back soon enough.
















Futurama - Good News - Hubert J. Farnsworth - Alternative - Comedy Central

Face Of The Day, Ctd

A reader writes:

When I saw the latest FOTD, I could only imagine the sheep's thoughts: "Whoa... Double windmill!  What does it mean....?"

Sorry.

Apology accepted.

Business - Breeds - Search - Google - Catholic Church

Democrats For Palin

Some Obama supporters are hoping for a Palin nomination because her high negatives will give Obama a better shot at reelection. Ned Resnikoff lists other consequences:

Palin has already demonstrated a disturbing willingness to frame evenminor political squabbles in terms of "tyranny" versus "liberty," andto make her a major party's presidential candidate would only do moreto throw the spotlight on that sort of incitement. Perhaps, as KevinDrum prays,the GOP would then, "go down to such an...

"Like Earth"

A gaffe prematurely reveals some fascinating new astronomical findings via the Kepler Space Telescope:

In a recent presentation, Kepler co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov
preempted the official announcement that the exoplanet-hunting Kepler
Space Telescope has discovered about 140 candidate worlds orbiting other stars that are "like Earth."

Usually, announcements like these happen after an official press release, but during the TEDGLobal conference in Oxford, U.K., Sasselov unexpectedly...

The Rebirth Of The Electric Car?

John Hudson kicks the Volt's wheels.
















Electric car - ChevroletVolt - General Motors - Nissan Leaf - Volt