Blog Stats
- 2,668,979 readers since June 2008
Recent Comments
- Marcos Borges on Judge William Adams Alludes to the Bible as He Beats His Daughter, Hallie
- Roy West on Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Stacked Corpses
- Blue Beazley on In 1935, Were Cary Grant and Randolf Scott Sex Partners? No, But These Images Look Rather Camp
- Gabry on Michael Jackson Pedophile Reality Check: Is It Mean to Suspect that Michael Jackson Might Have Been a Pedophile?
- Dave on Dissipation-Driven Adaptive Organization: Is Jeremy England The Next Charles Darwin?
- Chris on Dissipation-Driven Adaptive Organization: Is Jeremy England The Next Charles Darwin?
- Oliver Stark on Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible’s “Night of the Living Dead” Passage
- Oliver Stark on Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible’s “Night of the Living Dead” Passage
- Oliver Stark on Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible’s “Night of the Living Dead” Passage
- Michael Rehkop on Fraudulant Attribution: Gilgamesh, Moses, the Apostle Matthew—and Ancient Authorship
- Terry on Fraudulant Attribution: Gilgamesh, Moses, the Apostle Matthew—and Ancient Authorship
- Anonymous on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Anonymous on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Yes She Was on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Bret Stephens and Andrew Sullivan: A Not-So-Dynamic Duo ~ Full Magazine on Andrew Sullivan Apologizes for Comparing Larry Summers to a Christ Killing Jewish Moneylender in a Hieronymus Bosch Painting
Top Posts
- Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- How Crazy is Dr. David Jeremiah?
- What, Exactly, Is Wrong With Bestiality?
- Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible's "Night of the Living Dead" Passage
- What is a Human, Really? Thinking about Definition via Aristotle
- Clit Rubbing Bonobos: A Clue to the Evolutionary Origin of Human Homosexuality?
- In 1935, Were Cary Grant and Randolf Scott Sex Partners? No, But These Images Look Rather Camp
- Charles Sanders Peirce on the Method of Tenacity
- "The Vision of Christ That Thou Dost See": William Blake on the Many Faces of Jesus
- What Did Friedrich Nietzsche Take from Charles Darwin?
-
Recent Posts
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.10: Emerson’s “Circles”
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.9: Imitation And Emulation With An Eye On Competition
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.8: Selection And Editing
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.7: Audience And Rhetorical Strategy
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.6: Moving From First Sentence To Thesis
Recent Haiku Tweets
- AOC says it well. twitter.com/CNN/status/108… 4 months ago
- nytimes.com/interactive/20… 9 months ago
- RT @mrchan: So much has changed in America, and yet so much hasn't https://t.co/x2mthUr4Kc 11 months ago
- Perfect. twitter.com/newsundayheral… 2 years ago
- RT @goldenglobes: At tonight's #GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. https://t.… 2 years ago
Daily Archives: March 21, 2010
Health Care Reform: Yes We Did
I’m so proud to have supported and worked for this man’s election to the presidency. Barack Obama is proving to be an even better president than I had dared hope for when I voted for him in November of 2008. And on Sunday … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged Barack Obama, Democrats, equality, justice, Martin Luther King, Michelle Obama, Obama, Politics, president obama, roosevelt, Sean Hannity, women's rights
|
Leave a comment
Health Care Reform’s Victory: David Frum Blames Rush Limbaugh
This today at conservative David Frum’s website: Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination. When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What he omitted to say – but what … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged Barack Obama, conservatism, Fox News, fox noise, glenn beck, health care, Michelle Obama, rush limbaugh, talk radio
|
5 Comments
Mental Health Break from the Health Care Reform Drama
This old Disney cartoon short is oddly soothing, but is that Republican John Boehner as Foxy Loxy (at the 2:30 point)? Oops. It doesn’t embed. See it at YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvdhN_pXTsc
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged Barack Obama, glenn beck, health care reform, john boehner, mental health break, Michelle Obama, obama as superman, Politics, rush limbaugh, superman, yes we did
|
Leave a comment
Republican Health Care Reform Hysteria Watch
Now that the Democrats appear to have achieved a victory on health care reform some Republicans are, well, freaking out with end-of-the-world hysteria. This today in the Hill: Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) explained that “this is too big. We believe that this … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged America, Barack Obama, Fox News, fox noise, health care reform, john campbell, michelle bachmann, Republicans, Sarah Palin, tea partiers
|
Leave a comment
Health Care Reform Metaphor Watch: Conservative David Frum calls Sunday’s vote a Republican “Waterloo”
Conservative Republican David Frum tweeted this today: if HCR prevails, Republicans need an accountability moment. Jim DeMint/ Rush / Beck etc. ed us to Waterloo all right . Ours. Update: Health care reform prevailed. Meep, meep.
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged Barack Obama, conservatism, David Frum, glenn beck, Politics, Republicans, rush limbaugh, tea baggers, tea partiers, waterloo, Wile E. Coyote
|
Leave a comment
Stupak and White House reach a deal on health care reform
So according to the Hill, and now according to Stupak himself. The Republicans appear to be Wile E. Coyote. They made a political calculation that obstinate resistance to health care reform would prove a political winner for them, and now it seems … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged abortion, America, Barack Obama, congress, glenn beck, health care reform, Michelle Obama, Republican party, rush limbaugh, white house, Wile E. Coyote
|
Leave a comment
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Republicans think that the passage of health care reform will deliver them an overwhelming electoral sweep of both houses of Congress in November. Have they gone mad? Here’s Politico yesterday. You would think that they had actually achieved something historic by … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized
|
Tagged Barack Obama, Democrats, Fox News, fox noise, health care reform, Michelle Obama, Politics, progressive, Republicans, rush limbaugh
|
Leave a comment
