“Attention all GSBC members and friends of GSBC, it has been requested that you remove from Facebook and/or any other public site, any video showing footage from the Sunday Evening service of March 18, 2012.” “The irony, of course, is that few Christians actually do any of this.” “My objection to so many of these profiled [Doomsday Preppers] is that they are preparing to fend off their neighbors, not help them.” “What matters is whether the five conservative justices are... Read more

Ed Darrell shared this video of Alfre Woodard channeling Sojourner Truth: Terrific presentation of an amazing speech. Happy to hear that Woodard will be playing Ouiser in an upcoming production of Steel Magnolias, where she’ll be joined in the cast by Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Condola Rashad, Jill Scott and Adepero Oduye. Cool. Speaking of great performances, if you haven’t yet seen it, be sure not to miss 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the U.S. District Court case on... Read more

This is my first March in many years in which I didn’t work in a newsroom, so I’ve been out of the loop as far as March Madness goes. As a result, I neglected to remind everyone of Consumerist’s annual March Madness ritual — voting on the Worst Company in America. Here’s the Sweet 16. Also from Consumerist, Chris Morran asks “Who Is to Blame When Car Dealer Sells $62K Nissan to Man With Dementia?” A woman in California has... Read more

“Former Rep. Mark Neumann, R-Wis., has learned the hard way not to bring a pig to a news conference.” “If God made humans from dust, then why is there still dust?” “And I was still the same person,” Les says. “More so. More like the fun person I remembered from 30-odd years ago,” Scott says. “I hope that by meeting our kids you can understand the pain and anguish you help to cause.” “The point being, the lesson of the... Read more

Karoli at Crooks & Liars points us to this story — “Fox News Lies; An Elderly Woman Dies.” Tracy Knauss posted this on Facebook: Fox News killed my precious mother, Hallie. She watched FOX religiously. And when she fell ten days before she died, she refused to go to the doctor because, “I don’t want Obamacare to get all of my information! she declared, recalling the warnings from Fox News “anchors.” She was emphatic. She was not going to consort... Read more

Faith in Public Life’s Nick Sementelli says “Chuck Colson Doesn’t Like the Truth About His Homophobic Record.” GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) listed Colson in their recently launched “Commentator Accountability Project” which “aims to put critical information about frequent anti-gay interviewees into the hands of newsrooms, editors, hosts and reporters.” As Sementelli reports, Colson says he doesn’t belong on that list, protesting that GLAAD’s definition of anti-gay speech “is skewed,” mischaracterizing any disagreement as “gay-bashing.” GLAAD’s doesn’t use... Read more

Frances Robles of the Miami Herald reports that the “U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and FDLE to probe Trayvon Martin killing“: The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI will investigate the killing of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer, the department announced late Monday. The announcement coincided with a statement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to offer “appropriate resources” in the case. The federal and... Read more

“Given a choice between the two, I wonder which we’d be more inclined to frequent — the church with the bouncer-pastor, or the bar with the pastor-bouncer.” “The Ten Commandments monument that was the focus of the 2005 Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry was one of Cecil B. DeMille’s very first attempts at viral marketing.” “What’s an inerrantist pastor to do when one of his children turns out not to be a believer?” “Why affordable housing is a... Read more