This is a pretty familiar story line. A businessman wants to open a strip club. Some members of the local community decide that they do not want that kind of thing in their town. The resistance is usually faith-based (which is where the wheels really come off)....
You do not need to be as sharp as a mohel's blade to figure out that I am not the most religious guy in the world. In fact, take the view that the First Amendment provides us both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. So when I...
I felt a great disturbance in the Douchebag Force, as if millions of lowlife bigot assholes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I think something wonderful has happened. (Gay marriage ban in Texas struck down -- fuck you, Rick Perry) See DeLeon v. Perry....
By Tatiana von Tauber What do you think of this Amanda Knox story? I watched her interview here . It's moving. I've been following the case for years and I empathize as sometimes facts lead to conclusions which create illusion, not truth and it is here we discover the depth of trust...
Even as an atheist, with a strong belief in the separation of church and state (and a wish that people all over the world would shake off the yoke of superstition), I think this is a pretty cool story. Buzz Aldrin decided to hold his own private communion ceremony...
I find the whole idea of mutilating a baby's genitals to be pretty fucked up. Doing it because you think your imaginary friend wants you too is majorly fucked up. I don't think too much of any supernatural being who actually cares about baby dick, but the Abrahamic...
As many long-time readers know, Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act is one of my pet peeves. This is the section of the Trademark Act that gives pretty much unfettered discretion to a trademark examiner to deny a trademark registration on the basis that the mark itself is "immoral"...
I used to have neighbors in Flori-duh, whose argument (to me anyhow) against gay marriage was "what am I supposed to tell my kids?" Louis CK had a funny reply to that. "It doesn't have ANY effect on your life. What do you care? People try to talk about it like...
If only all clergy members were as enlightened as this one....
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the director of the “Innocence of Muslims” movie, which has been blamed for setting off riots and murders in Islamic countries, has (conveniently?) been arrested for violating the terms of his probation. Among the terms of his probation: He was not allowed to se the...
