Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Christmas Watch 2005: Burning Bush

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

President Bush is flagrantly abusing his position. I know, I know. I’ll be more specific. W is inserting his invisible best friend into the White House holiday celebration for which we all foot the bill. Take a look at the White House Christmas page. The theme for this year is […]

Indiana: The South Carolina of the Midwest

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Indiana has been displaying an inordinate amount of religious craziness given its latitude. I just read an article called “Puritan Politics” on nuvo.net. The Christian right is up to its elbows in the state government, and all heaven is breaking loose.
To put it briefly, if you’re gay, and you live in […]

God Bless America

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

I love America.
I am well aware that I will take some heat from extremist members of my audience for this, but I am a patriot. “But patriotism is just like religion,” you say. Whatever. Feel free to spew your anarchist agenda or paint us a verbal picture of your utopian […]

Catholic Theologian’s Try to Bend Dover

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

I would assert (and I’m certainly not the first to say this) that the only effective way to combat the teaching of intelligent design in science classes is to clearly demonstrate that it is not science. The rational are overwhelmingly outnumbered by the superstitious, so attacking the truth of the theory will get us […]

I Am… What?

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

I’ve seen several bloggers post their results from an interesting political quiz over the last few days. I’m jumping on the bandwagon.

You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (78% permissive) You are best described as a:
Libertarian

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