Category: The Dish

And you thought I was tough on Mickey Kaus?

The Onion explains.

High art goes there.

And other guilty pleasures from second-hand book stores. Pharyngula, one of the best science-bloggers, confesses.

He keeps dodging the base confabs and the base returns the love:

"I would ask McCain, he said he doesn’t have anything in common with us. He doesn’t believe in low taxes? He doesn’t believe in limited government? He doesn’t believe in free trade? … I think he was afraid of getting booed. I’ve seen some political pundits say that, that it was smart for McCain not to show up, because he risked getting booed."

I cannot recall a senior Republican leader, who really should be the front-runner, being hated this much by the base. They were nicer to Dole. They were even nicer to Bush Sr. So why? I know there are legitimate differences of opinion on some matters – but less so than with Giuliani, for example. My own sense is that the base fears that McCain could lead the GOP away from the current Rove-Bush coalition. The hate correlates with the threat.

Well, Margaret Thatcher was hot, but now it’s the ladies’ turn to ogle.

Yes, 50 Cents’ fans read apparently. (Hat tip: Syntax.)

Virginia Postrel wonders why so many capitalize the word ‘Libertarian."

Byron York seems to have a point.

A Baptist from the rural South, who has kept the faith as a gay man, responds to Albert Mohler’s recent support for the idea of trying to de-gay unborn children in the womb with hormonal treatments. Money quote:

The question I had for God was simple: I perceive myself to be the me whom You intended me to be, yet the church, Your church, says that the way I am made to be is wrong, prima facie, in and of itself. So, Lord, what is it? Either You made a mistake, or the church is misperceiving Your leading.

Of course, the answer is found in the question, since God is God and in Him are no mistakes. And thus began the rest of my life, as, having settled the issue to my satisfaction, I could get on with keeping my commitment to serve Christ in my life through whatever opportunities and challenges might lie ahead. I could see my situation as a problem or a gift. I now knew it was a gift, and having viewed it as such, I can say today, some 37 years later, it has borne remarkable fruits of the spirit and good works for the betterment of others in both this world and the next.