Monkey Law

Christopher Hitchens, always a fun guy to listen to, eulogizes the late Jerry Falwell in this beautiful clip from CNN:

This video is from a couple of days ago… it’s been making the rounds on the web. Even without the music that someone added at the end (Conan O’Brien added Carmina Burana which was funnier), it’s still a hilarious shot. Bush gives a press conference, and there’s Cheney, just… standing there, several feet away, all […]

While I myself don’t have a religion, my usual attitude since growing to adulthood has been “live and let live” — even though I regard the beliefs of religious people as ridiculous, I have tried not to let that color my opinions of them. Be tolerant, in other words. After all, what do I care […]

I was devastated this morning to hear news of the death of Texas’ beloved former governor, Ann Richards. Although I never lived in this state during her term, I saw her out and about a few times (rumor was she lived in a new luxury apartment complex in my neighborhood) and was always in awe […]

Today, a reader directed my attention to this blog post from Justinsomnia about that blogger’s legal entanglements with a group calling itself Exodus International, one of those “we can turn gay people straight so they won’t be evil faggots anymore” organizations that have cropped up in the past few years.