The National Catholic Reporter Prints a Pro-Marriage Equality Opinion Piece
Progressive Christians have a hard time getting their views into mainstream discourse. Popular media, eager for sensationalism, far prefers the religious right to the religious left. For progressive...
View ArticleReports: Timbuktu Manuscripts Threatened By Mali Insurgents; Some Saved
UPDATE: A report by Time says that manuscripts in one library earlier reported destroyed are safe, having been smuggled out of Timbuktu before insurgents took control of the city. News is leaking out...
View ArticleUSA Today: Atrios Says, "401(k)s Are a Disaster;" Raise Social Security...
The big Pale Blue guy has an online column on USA Today.
View ArticleYou People Get Back to Work, or Marissa Mayer Will Take Over Your Company and...
New Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has sparked outrage and open derision from technology professionals with her recently command that Yahoo! employees stop working from home and come into the office every day.
View ArticleWHOA! Holy Carp.
This great video from YouTube user politizane has been making the rounds for a couple of weeks. I'm sure you've seen it, as it has appeared a couple of times on Daily Kos and doubtless in your Facebook...
View ArticleHost of TV Show "A Rifleman's Journal" Shot and Killed in Montana, Followed...
Gunz:Police in northwestern Montana say a man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show A Rifleman’s Journal while the TV personality was visiting the shooter’s wife. Whitefish police say...
View Article6 Shot, 4 Dead, Killer on the Loose in New York State
The latest in our current drama, "AMERICA, A CELEBRATION OF GUNZ!!!1"
View ArticleYep. Fox's Bill O'Reilly, Traditional Marriage Advocate, Recently Got a Nasty...
Bill O'Reilly, proud patriot, proud American Catholic, proud advocate of "traditional" marriage ...Is coming out of a nasty, nasty, nasty divorce.
View ArticleIt's Okay for Christians to Celebrate Easter, Too
This wonderful diary entry by Purple Priestess is full of fun info and is a great reminder about the origins of Easter.It follows on a very strange Facebook post by Richard Dawkins on the same topic,...
View ArticleHoly Jesus. NYT's Keller Calls on Obama to Appoint KENNETH STARR to...
I can't stop laugh-crying.
View ArticleDetroit Emergency Manager Considers Selling off Matisses, Van Goghs in...
In Michigan, everything is for sale!Or it might be, if "emergency manager" Kevyn Orr decides to sell of the multi-billion dollar collection of fine art in the city's art museum to pay off its debts.
View ArticleIf You Read This, You Will Laugh
My apologies for the short diary, but I have to share this. I don't want to describe the article on the other side of this link, though you might deduce what it is about from the title. Please do...
View ArticleObama Should Use the Phone Records to Uncover Adultery Among GOP House Members
Come on, folks. Let's get real. Politics is hardball.The Obama Administration should use the phone records that it is collecting to uncover adultery and other blackmailable activity on the part of...
View ArticleWe Must Pray for Obama to Endure this NSA Leak Scandal
I'm sick of these leakers attacking our president and his administration. It doesn't matter how you feel about NSA surveillance, leaking is never okay.
View ArticleBooz Allen Is Owned By the Carlyle Group
In case you were wondering if there would be any repercussions against them in the wake of the Snowden mess.
View ArticleNo, Edward Snowden Is Not a 'Traitor'
Over the last 24 hours, we've seen dozens of high-profile politicians in both parties step before the microphone, each obediently repeating the words that they have been given to speak:"Edward Snowden...
View ArticleAPB for New York Area Kossacks: 5:30 PM at Stonewall Inn
Hi folks,In response to today's Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and California Proposition 8:The Stonewall Democrats of New York City are putting on a hell of a party tonight from 5:30 to 8:00 pm....
View ArticleBreaking: Obama Puts 4-Star General Under Investigation for Leaks to New York...
Retired four-star general James E. Cartwright of the United States Marines has been put under investigation by the Obama Administration, according to a new article on the New York Times website.
View ArticleSoledad O'Brien Joins Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera America confirmed this morning that former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien has moved to their network.
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