Well, here’s a fine howdy-do: Rick Warren, pastor of the mother of all mega-churches, has been tapped to channel Jesus conduct a seance deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Because Warren […]
Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?

In this season’s eighth episode, Boston Legal – the relentlessly liberal ABC dramedy starring William Shatner and James Spader – lobbed an absolute bomb at those of us on the pro-choice side […]
The ethics of cloning a caveman
Errrmmm, we can do that? The full genome of the Neanderthal, an ancient human species probably driven to extinction by the first modern humans that entered Europe some 45,000 years ago, is […]
Poetry and lyrics are not the same thing: Hegemony, part 2

I’m tired of hearing that rock stars and rappers are poets. They’re nothing of the sort. A couple weeks I go I offered up part one in a series on poetry vs. […]
Music lyrics, even great ones, are not poetry: Hegemony, part 1
How often have you heard someone call a rock musician or a rapper a poet? As a poet and a lyricist, let me assure you that they’re not the same thing. Reach […]
Jesus hates fags, but His freaks love me
By Ann Ivins “Can I take a picture of your sign?” “Whose side are you on?” “God’s side.” I believe I am. “Bless you, sister. Here.” He maneuvered the sign according to […]
Dear Catholic League: suck on this
By Ann Ivins Mr. Donohue: The Catholic League’s request to Leah Daughtry to ban the blogs BitchPhD and Towleroad from the Democratic National Convention came as something of a shock to those […]
Nota Bene #35

Scholars & Rogues’ world-famous hot links! In, “Dear World, Please Confront America,” Naomi Wolf writes: “I had thought that after so much exposure [to revelations about US torture], thousands of Americans would […]
Nota Bene #29 Part 1 of 2

Got hot links if you want ’em! In a post titled “Why Johnny Can’t Google,” Rafe Colbun blogs about John McCain’s indifference to computers: “It’s tempting to. . . assume that. . […]
The Passion of St. Hillary
They don’t call it the Clinton News Network for nothing. Check out the drab colors and lighting of the Clintonpostles as compared to She-Jesus in an event broadcast this morning. All that’s […]