And Now a Religious Perspective

Why Liberals Are Crushing Dissent

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

These four bills would require that in every classroom from kindergarten through high school perverse sexual activity be praised and highlighted in a positive light. They would require textbooks, many of which would then also be produced for other states beyond the borders of California, make positive references to the ideas of men putting on women's under things. They would restrict school districts from being able to bar females from displaying dildos on the outerwear of their prom dress. And in functional sexuality courses from K-12, they would require positive explanation of the merits and instruction of anal intercourse.

These four bills are also dangerous in what they outlaw. No single teacher – not even in science classes – would be allowed to talk about the negative health impact of homosexual behavior. No school counselor would be allowed to confirm to a molested student that they felt wrong about continuing in a homosexual relationship that they were primarily drawn into because of earlier molestation to begin with. No mention of moral aspects of sexual behavior would be permitted unless immoral activity were praised and in fact referred to as moral.

What's next you heathens? Men marrying dogs or Llama sex being taught as scripture?

Bill Maher is Back -- Tonight, Babies! Tonight!

Praise be to that sweet baby Jesus; Bill Maher's back from his summer hiatus, and Real Time resumes operation tonight at 10pm EST on HBO. Best show on TV. And it more than compensates for the fact that TDS/CR are only on M-Th (which have *both* been stellar lately, don't you think? I'd actually go so far as to say they've been downright crumbelievable.)

This Friday at 11 pm, Bill Maher talks with director Spike Lee about post-Katrina New Orleans, music legend Elvis Costello and blogger Marcos Moulitsas—Plus, panel guests fmr. Sen. Max Cleland, author/scholar Vali Nasr and columnist Christopher Hitchens discuss this week's Hot Topics.

Hitchens?! Fuck! I thought he got banned from the grown-up table years ago! Jesus Christ! What does a fat, drunken, dipshit turncoat have to do to get booted off the airwaves? I knew he was totally losing his shit when he incited an intellectual smack-down with Chomsky. Just google "hitchens chomsky" for a bizarre, yet entertaining series of statements, rebuttals and rejoinders that document the unravelling of Christopher Hitchens. After that he got super-pissy toward the Left as a whole and I never heard boo from him again. Until now, that is.

He's always entertaining to listen to, but if he goes into another one of his tirades about how invading Iraq was the right thing to do and if liberals can't admit it they're just a bunch of pussies, I'm going to pop a fucking blood vessel. I'm hoping Bill Maher remembers that Hitchens was a cheerleader of the invasion and appropriately roasts his bloated British carcass on a spit.

I'm guessing if Hitchens were confronted with that today, he'd make a valiant attempt to squirmily equivocate his way out of it. I'd like to remind you, dear reader, that Christopher Hitchens, who so eloquently made the case for bringing Henry Kissinger to the Hague and trying him for crimes against humanity, was one of the very few people in the world who, along with Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and very few others, publicly made the claim that Saddam was in cahoots with al Qaeda.

I'll close with a lovely quote from Norman Finkelstein on Hitchens:

According to Hitchens, all the key terms of the debate on Iraq were meaningless. In his hands this is probably true. For many years Hitchens awed readers with his formidable control over the English language. Now his ego delights in testing whether, through sheer manipulation of words, he can pass off flatulent emissions as bouquets.

Amen, Dr. Fink!