The State of the Union is in crisis! The monarchy is back. The President has worked at lightning speed to…
Category Social Justice
2025 has been a long year. But we’re almost through it. Can you believe it’s already… check notes… March? Wait,…
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about punching Nazis. In one sense this seems odd to me because…
France has made headlines recently when multiple beach towns implemented a ban on “burkinis.” Burkinis are a fully covered swimsuit…
Rainbow smoke has cleared the tower of the Supreme Court this morning and they have ruled in favor of marriage…
Yesterday a sign went up in front of the Ten Commandments Church in Georgia. The sign reads, “Homosexuality is an…
In case you haven’t heard, Indiana’s new “Religious Freedom Law” allows businesses to discriminate against people as long as that…
Christian fundamentalists often complain that “secularists” are trying to “redefine” marriage to include the greater LBGT community. Former Senator, presidential dreamer, and all around assclown, Rick Santorum (Google him), even complained that we might redefine marriage to include “man on dog” relations. Interestingly enough, it seems that lately it has been Christians who have been trying to redefine marriage.
I’m a pretty progressive person, but there is one thing that I think many of my fellow liberals get wrong. Maybe it is because I am a former radio talk show person, but I never liked political correctness. I see it as the enemy of free speech and free expression. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that words have power and there are consequences for saying certain things, but I also think that humor – dark humor in particular – can have a healing quality to it. The down side is that dark humor sometimes is politically incorrect and taken out of context might offend the very people it seeks to heal.
The Supreme Court just ruled that corporations can have religious exemptions from laws. This is ridiculously insane for so many reasons.