February 2012
55 posts
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Was Obama right to apologize then? Or does Rick Santorum have a point that it makes him look weak?
Of course Obama should have apologized. The Americans, culturally, stepped in a big pile of dung when they burned the Korans. Santorum’s just using the moment to bait the religious right, who see the overseas wars as a “Christianity vs. Islam” battle. We should respond to this as...
Over at this week’s Dogmageddon column at Vice, which is actually becoming more and more fun to write each week(!), I try to “tackle” the obvious reality that the Republican Party is never going to actually legitimately try to overturn Roe v. Wade because abortion debate is just too booming of a business to get rid of. More here.
Over at Vice.com today, I talk about Prop 8 and how it’s really, really, really easy to be moral. I also get to trot out my great morality chart again, which is fun!
FINGAL: “… his answers to the questions on the last pop quiz he took in school…” These questions are taken from an “Art Pretest” rather than a “pop quiz.” And the test is dated August 25, 1999, and Levi’s death was on July 12, 2002, so even if this were a “pop quiz,” it’s very unlikely that it was “the last pop quiz he took in school,” unless he was one lucky kid.
D’AGATA: OK, you’re...
