Blogger offers Texas conservatives $500 to abort themselves

BLOGOSPHERE — A Blogger has proposed that Texas legislators offering women considering abortion cash to not have abortion be offered $500 to abort themselves.
William K. Wolfrum, who added the offer is also good for conservative radio talk show hosts, said Friday the money might persuade the legislators to make the world a better place, and [...]

Sweet Jesus

Bill Donohue is back in the news, this time he’s bitching about Jesus. Well, more specifically about one sweeeeeet Jesus:
NEW YORK – The Easter season unveiling of an anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ, dubbed “My Sweet Lord” by its creator, has infuriated Catholics preparing to observe some of their holiest days of the [...]

Yarrr, matey!

We find out via The All Spin Zone that a student in North Buncombe, NC, exercised his Pastafarianism and found himself suspended:
A North Buncombe student is suspended for wearing pirate attire to class. The school says he created a disturbance. But Bryan Killian says costume is part of his religion, Pastafarianism, and that the [...]

Be Nice to the Scots

Or you may not like what you find in the mail!
A Scottish company has been slammed for inviting customers to “send a poo” to an Englishman on St George’s Day.
Edinburgh-based firm PostaPoo.com is selling plastic “realistic poo” to send to “your favourite (or least favourite) Englishman” to mark April 23.

Customers are given the choice between [...]

Someone Call the Waaaaaaaahhhmbulance!

Wal-Mart’s CEO is just so darned mad at the people of NYC==! Those meanies!== They’re such bullies! He wants to come in and put up some of his big shiny stores, and they just won’t let him, darn it!
First, a little bit from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, then the money quote:
Wal-Mart May [...]

The Prophet from Colorado Springs

If you’re a Christian, sing Hallelujah; the Second Coming is nigh. If you’re Jewish, the Messiah is here… and He’s living in Colorado Springs. He’s masquerading as a talk-show host and right-wing power broker James Dobson, but don’t let that charade fool you: He truly must be the Son of God because He [...]

Elections Have Consequences: Equal Rights Amendment Edition

Oh. Mah. Gawd. Twenty-five-years after it failed to be ratified by three-quarters of state legislatures to become a Constitutional Amendment (and eighty-four years after it was first introduced in Congress), the Equal Rights Amendment – now known as the Women’s Equality Amendment – is having a resurgence.
Yesterday, House and Senate Democrats reintroduced the measure … [...]

Taking the Fifth

There are times when I wished I’d gone to law school. That way I might better understand the nuances of what it means when Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s White House liaison, has her lawyer, John M. Dowd, tell the Senate Judiciary Committe she plans to take the Fifth Amendment when she’s called before [...]

Take the Twenty Bucks

An old joke:
An attractive, well-dressed man walks into a bar and spies an equally attractive young lady. They strike up a conversation and after a few drinks and pleasantries, he says, “Would you have sex with me for a million dollars?”
“Of course,” she purrs.
“Okay, well, then, how about for twenty bucks?”
“Of course not!” she [...]

A Waste of a Good Cock

Michael Savage is just dancing on the razor’s edge of looneyville; ready to topple over any second into a new career as straightjacket model. Fresh off his yowling rant calling trans people “psychopaths,” and referring to them as circus freaks in reference to a news story about a murdered transgender woman, he’s done it [...]

“If you believe in peanut butter–You gotta believe in Peter Pan!”

A friend on a board I frequent found this via Richard Dawkins’ site, amusingly titled “Peanut Butter, The Atheist’s Nightmare!”:

Chris added:
“See, I think this guy must be buying the wrong brand of peanut butter. Usually within a few days of opening a new jar, I find a thriving civilization of tiny [...]

Shaker Gourmet

The recipe this week comes from Shaker Chris of Exit Stage-Left:

Iowa Pork Chops with Maytag Blue Cheese Butter
For the blue cheese butter:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 ounce Maytag Blue cheese, crumbled, at room temperature
1 tablespoon chopped toasted walnuts
1 tablespoon thinly slivered fresh basil
Coarse salt (kosher or sea) and freshly ground black [...]

Well, This is Going to be Uncomfortable…

So, the radio alarm went off this morning, and while I was waiting for the husband to get out of the shower and petting the dog, I hear that good ‘ol Gonzo is going to be visiting my gorgeous city today. “What,” I thought, “could that weasel be doing in Chicago? Doesn’t he [...]

Why It Matters

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has been in the forefront of exposing the facts and realities behind the U.S. Attorney purge scandal. In the process he’s been asked a number of times by people who want to know, either honestly or in a veiled attack on the pursuit of the scandal, what the [...]

Get to know Bill, Part 1: The Bats

Being the new guy at a tight-knit community is always a tough thing. People look at you and think “Hey, who’s this jerk?” or “Wow, what smug-looking jerk,” or “Damn, I bet he’s a jerk.”
This is totally understandable. After all, the “Shakers” are much like the “Super Friends.” Now this new dude shows up, and [...]

Evander Holyfield: The perfect fighter for a nation in love with hypocrites

It is somewhat apropos that Evander Holyfield has managed to stick himself back into the limelight of boxing’s heavyweight division. In a time when hypocrisy is one of the nation’s greatest exports, it seems natural that Holyfield should be in the mix.

In an era where Dick Cheney pounds the desk with one hand while clutching [...]

Gulf of Tonkin II…?

From the Guardian:
The Iranian navy has seized up to 15 British sailors, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today, sparking a diplomatic standoff between the UK and Iran.
Iran’s ambassador to the UK was immediately summoned to the foreign office for what the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, described as a “brisk” meeting.
He was “left in no doubt” [...]

The Very Definition of “Grasping at Straws”

Oh, for the luvva crumb cake.
I think we can now officially state that Gonzo has jumped the shark. He’s circling the drain. He has expired, and gone to meet his maker. He’s a stiff. This is an Ex-Attorney General.
How do I know this? Because he’s shown his final card, and [...]

A Virus With Shoes*

I’d like you all to take a moment and read this latest spewing by Michael Savage: Embarrassment to Humanity, which was so vile, it prompted Shakes to alert me to the story and say “I really do hate that absurd, horrible little man quite possibly more than is possible for me to accurately describe, but, [...]

God and Genes

If, as science is getting close to proving, that being gay is genetically encoded, that makes things rough for fundamentalist Christians.
As Harold Meyerson points out, it creates a conundrum: God creates gay people in the same way he creates straight people and being gay or straight is determined the moment the sperm enters the egg. [...]