Just riffing off this most excellent post by Devilstower — as you probably know, Mike Huckabee has attempted to justify his opposition to gay marriage and civil unions by saying:
There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
For some reason, this is a very common “deep thought” among the […]
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Being a List of Things That Will End Our Civilization
Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 6th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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“Lord Have Mercy, I Think It’s the Cops”: Larry Craig and Madame George
Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 4th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Forgive me for posting twice in a row about Larry Craig. After the past week, surely it’s time for him to begin shrinking in the collective rear-view mirror of our culture.
But I can’t help it. On Sunday, someone who goes by the nom de net Blueness posted an absolutely beautiful diary on Daily Kos, called […]
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Roundup: Ronald Reagan Memorial Bridge Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is brilliant. Peter Smith at the Huffington Post has a proposal for renaming the new I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that will replace the one that collapsed: “For a while there, back when the Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress, they were naming things after Ronald Reagan everywhere. Airports. Aircraft carriers. […]
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Roundup: Irish Sea Eagle Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
POLITICS: The Senate Judiciary committee has voted 13-3 to authorize subpoenas for documents related to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. That includes three Republicans on the committee voting in favor of the subpeonas: Sens. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Poland “stuns” other members of the European Union by demanding that the […]
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Stephen Colbert on James Holsinger and His Weird Plumbing Analogies
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 15th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Stephen Colbert dedicates The Word to Bush’s gay-hating Surgeon General nominee, James Holsinger, and shares some of Holsinger’s amazing insights into what plumbing can teach us about human sexuality.
(h/t After Elton)
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Roundup: Magnum Opus Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 4th, 2007 at 7:18 am
COMICS: For once I’m starting out with the comics section, in honor of the fact that Salon has added Opus by the mighty Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County, Outland) to their repertoire. Oh, happy day. Here’s the first installment. Along with my favorites This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow and Tom the Dancing Bug […]
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A Book That Will Live in Grinfamy
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
This is a laugh-out-loud good time. Janet Maslin at the New York Times reviews the new book about Pearl Harbor (titled simply Pearl Harbor) by Newt Gingrich and his co-author, William R. Forstchen.
The title of her review? “An Assault on Hawaii. On Grammar Too.”
OK, I could have stopped right there, and that would have been […]
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The Colbert Report: Heated Debate
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
“Professors are forcing our kids to submit to their pro-glacier agenda!”
Newsflash: Student traumatized when his university tries to make him learn things that don’t harmonize with his conservative worldview!
Fortunately, Stephen Colbert is here to make sense of the situation.
Yeah, what Stephen said! Because you should never, ever have to be taught something you don’t […]
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