Almost as good as you guys. Here are my two faves:
Calling the plan for peace in the Middle East a “road map” is ridiculous. Women will not be able to follow it and men will know a better route without referring to it. Brian Christley Daily Telegraph, May 5
And this one:
Our leading bishops demand hard evidence of Saddam Hussein’s possessions of weapons of mass destruction. If we were to demand the same level of proof from their profession, they would all be out of a job. Avril Segal Times, January 21
Fair enough.
BLUE SUEDE JEWS: A very American way to celebrate Hannukah – in Tennessee.
GETTING THEM YOUNG: Palestinian kids trade baseball cards – of their favorite terrorists.
THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT SPLITS: A rare look inside the deep divisions among the far right over a constitutional amendment to ban marriage for gays. What this reveals is something important: the amendment as it stands is designed not simply to ban marriage for gays but to strip gay couples of any benefits or rights under domestic partnerships, civil unions or any other basis. The more moderate types – such as Maggie Gallagher or Matt Daniels, who started the “Alliance for Marriage” – don’t want to launch an anti-gay crusade and are content to see gay couples have some legal protections. But the real base of the movement wants something with far more teeth. The current amendment has those teeth. And the front-men who claim it’s merely about marriage are lying.
SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE: “The country was really taken over. It was a coup. This man was not elected, he sits in the White House and he’s declaring war. That’s a coup d’état. America should be in the streets picketing. And our boys and our girls, our teenagers and 20- year-olds, are off there killing people. And war begets war.” – Rosie O’Donnell, on Sirius Satellite Radio, December 11.
MY MAD COW JOKE: Okay, so I’m not that good at jokes. I like them really stupid in a “Dumb and Dumber” kind of way. So this cow says to another cow: “I’m really freaked out about this whole mad cow disease.” “I’m not worried in the slightest,” says the other cow. “But it’s breaking out all over and they’re slaughtering hundreds and thousands in Europe. How can you not be worried?” the first cow protests. “Well, it’s not going to affect me.” says the second cow. “I’m a duck.”
ERASING GAYS: We all know that many elements of the religious right would render gay citizens invisible if they could, so it’s no surprise that they have lobbied the Park Service to remove any evidence that gay citizens have protested on the Mall in Washington D.C. What is surprising is that the Park Service is now going along – removing from the educational video at the Lincoln Memorial any footage of gay rights rallies, and restricting footage to scenes of “Promise Keepers,” and other scenes more palatable to the evangelical crowd. Michael Demmons has the goods.
The Dish 