Let’s play piggyback with the American Family Association

I am stealing this idea from Fark. The AFA is incensed that Hallmark is making same-sex marriage cards and is boycotting the company. In addition, they have a very nice website where you can write to those durned lib’rals at Hallmark and give them what fer! As was suggested on Fark, it’s also a convenient [...]

the myth of the fiscal conservative

John pointed out an article in the New York Times magazine that looks in-depth at Obama’s economic plan and why it’s so difficult to classify as liberal or conservative.  The whole article is a great read, but this one passage caught my attention: The second criticism is that Obama’s tax increases would send an already-weak [...]

…Or how about a plague of frogs?

This is unbelievably lame, but will probably get me to pray the reverse just out of cussedness.

on fiscal conservatism

via ReShun:

Waterboarding, a first-person perspective

I have a love-hate thing with Christopher Hitchens (disagree with him on a lot, think he’s an amazing speaker, wouldn’t want to get into an argument with him because I’ve seen him dismantle people with little effort), but this Vanity Fair article in which he describes his experience being waterboarded is really compelling.