The Latter Day Saints officially renounce racial discrimination and "the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse ... or that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone else." Meanwhile, on Fox News, Megyn Kelly officially announces that Jesus was white, white, white. "That's a verifiable fact," she said, even though it's verifiably nonsense. Read more
Cuba annexes the Sudetenland. Schrodinger's lost colony of Roanoke. Brave gun-owner protects Walmart parking lot from a disabled child. It's really dangerous not having offshore wind farms. Fundie curriculum offers really weird, really easy multiple-choice tests. Bryan Fischer says the First Amendment only protects the free exercise of Christian religion. Read more
Reagan's Bind" describes the conundrum in which one is unable to explain or defend one's actions except by ascribing them to either: A) malicious intent; or B) glaring stupidity and/or incompetence. Read more
Let's stop treating Janet Mefferd like she's some kind of good, honest journalist for calling out Mark Driscoll's plagiarism. She makes a living telling vicious, venomous lies about LGBT people and about Muslims. She hates those people and thinks that hate justifies her lies about them. That doesn't make her a journalist, or honest, or good. Read more
"Hold on a minute, there, Jesus," the twelve said. "Some of these people might be sinners and people we disapprove of. Feeding them all would be like opening a store and having to sell your wares to everyone who came in, without discriminating between the worthy and unworthy customers. That violates our religious liberty." Read more
Celebrating the Universal Declaration for Human Rights. Chad Michael Murray on the daunting responsibility of carrying on Kirk Cameron's legacy. John Calvin trashes Dave Ramsey. Bill Donohue celebrates Festivus (he's good at airing his grievances, not so good at the feats of strength). The news from Texas is still mostly dismaying. Kevin Drum on the "depraved" opposition to allowing the poor access to health care that's already paid for. Read more
Ads like this one, and our failure to reject them, further cement the impression that evangelicals are incapable of loving our neighbors-- incapable of living as neighbors with anyone who doesn't share our particular sectarian faith and sectarian political ideology. Read more
The condescension that accompanies the common-sense aspects of their advice could be shrugged off if Yoffe and Ramsey didn't take the next ugly step -- the sweeping implication that it is the "prey" who are primarily responsible for being preyed upon in their "prey-rich environment." Here's how Ramsey put it, explicitly: "The only variable in the discussion you can personally control is YOU. ... You can make better choices and have better results.” Read more
They're still fighting the class war. We're still losing: Employers want full-time availability for part-time work and small-time pay. Forty percent of American workers make less than $20,000 a year. Coal companies paid Johns Hopkins not to find cases of black lung. In Haiti's small-government libertarian paradise, wage-theft by bosses steals a third of workers' pay. And more. Read more
Rick Warren's stale ham sandwich. South Carolina state senator demands child labor and the abolition of retirement for able-bodied seniors. Oklahoma spends $70 on anti-divorce program; divorce rate in Oklahoma goes up. Charity as perpetual motion machine. Spiritual tricksters expose hegemonic hypocrisy of Christianists. And a maudlin, melodramatic Christmas song from Randy Stonehill. Read more
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