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I have to agree with Chris Hallquist's take on the Brian Eich mess particularly his...

Self proclaimed paleo-conservative Pat Buchanan loves him an anti-gay, bear-back ridin', judo flippin', ex-KGB operative...

Weird week, and it's only Tuesday. First we find out from Nate Phelps that his...

I always hate the way the media and the lobbyists behave after a shooting. About...

Just about everyone is reacting to the Barna Group's surveys that show a decline in...

Gene Rosen's story at Salon jumped out at me: “I don’t know what to do,”...

The phrase "fiscal cliff" was coined by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke to describe the expiration...

On Saturday, Indian born Sunando Sen was pushed in front of an oncoming NYC subway...

It's one of the ironies of American history that the capitalists who created America's industrial...

Today I want to analyse a story that I read on the BBC during my...

I'm sure we're all tired of all the talk about America's gun fetish and shooting...

Over at The Monkey Cage, Patrick Egan considers some of the statistics about gun violence...

Daniel Fincke posted this collage of responses to the Connecticut shooting. It's a lot of...

I'm just going to let this tweet speak for itself. What. The. FUCK.

Sometimes an image sums something up so beautifully that I just have to share it...

Yesterday we discussed Jenny McCarthy's stage molestation of Justin Bieber, and how no one seems...

What would happen if a 40-year-old man — on live TV — grabbed an...

I once joked that I started dating my wife to get at her Newsweek subscription....

The recent unveiling of the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" has been interesting, less because of...

Via Doubtful News, I find that there is a development in one of the last...

As I was thinking about the recent fundamentalist Muslim mobs, this Sam Harris quote came...

By now, you've heard about the attacks on the Libyan embassy, as well as riots...

Sun Myung Moon has passed away at the age of 92, leaving progressive atheists like...

Via the Army Times, carrying an Associated Press story, we have reports of a very...

Here's how bad it is: Frederick Schmidt, Progressive Christian columnist here at Patheos, has an...

In the wake of Pussy Riot's performance/protest in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, members...

Christian Piatt wrote a rather squeamish post about a certain all-female punk band that has...

While it is good to see that some justice is being done, this is still...

I don't even... please someone tell me these people are joking.  

Ten days ago. 1:00am. I'm sitting alone in bed reading The Best American Essays of...