Category: The Dish

It’s an online split-screen movie of how the universe began and evolved. One half tells the story from the Biblical POV, the other from Darwin’s. Kinda cool. (Hat tip: Kottke.)

Er, he means Giuliani.

Malkin is gob-smacked. Larison is slack-jawed:

I can’t express to you all how little sense this makes. It’s baffling, like so much else associated with Mike Huckabee lately. The only thing more bizarre would have been if Gilchrist had endorsed McCain. How does the founder of the Minutemen endorse Huckabee?  What parallel universe have we fallen into that this is happening? I mean, Gilchrist essentially has to ignore everything that the man said or did regarding immigration for the last decade. Apparently the take-away lesson is that shameless pandering works. Before much longer maybe Huckabee will land Tancredo’s endorsement.

I think Larison and Malkin are missing something about the base and Huckabee: he is one of them. If shameless pandering were enough, Romney would be walking away with this. Paranoid Christianists care more about knowing that their candidate gets them than his past record on "the issues." And if he is one of them, he can be brought around, as Huckabee has on immigration. What matters is cultural and religious identity, rather than policy. Again this is a result of the sectarianization of Republican politics.

A classic:

"I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is."

He’s not talking about the Thompson campaign.

No, not Hewitt on the Romney campaign. Uma Thurman on Al Gore.

Derb keeps defending Ron Paul.

If you’re not up to speed on the Dickie Scruggs scandal in Mississippi – Scruggs is the trial lawyer who’s Trent Lott’s brother-in-law – Wally Olson can help here and here.

Check out the lounge singer and the Virgin above. Meanwhile Rocco has some breathless reports from Mexico on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Money quote:

As many roses as people… pilgrims crying, pilgrims cheering… everyone singing along — and everyone, everyone, saying "¡Gracias, Mamita!" "¡Gracias, Madre Santa!": "Thanks, Mommy!" "Thank you, Holy Mother!"

Passion being a universal language, you can tell they mean it… and you know that they know she’s there… and you realize that Immaculate Conception will never, ever, be as exciting. Or beautiful. Or radiant.

The Pope blames married gay couples for undermining peace in the world. Gee, isn’t destroying our own families enough?

Could he kill off Fred Thompson’s ambling campaign with a burst of out-of-state college students? Crowley licks his chops.