I honestly hadn’t given too much thought to Wanda Sykes’ rather predictably meanspirited attempts to skewer Rush Limbaugh at the correspondent’s dinner last evening — it being de rigeur these days for the wannabe edgy to take shots at Limbaugh, and to receive at least tacit official sanction for doing so. And the President’s reaction suggested that she’d done just that. Had I more respect for Obama, I’d have expressed

For those of you who missed it, an interesting argument broke out in response to Darleen’s posting of Dennis Prager’s Prager University “American Trinity” video. To quickly summarize, Prager talks about what he’s identified as the three foundational American “values” (e pluribus unum, liberty, God), using the word “values” as a kind of colloquial synonym for “principles” — specifically, the foundational principles of the US experiment. He then differentiates the

SPOILER WARNING (I think Great Mencken’s Ghost wanted that here) It was a good thing that we arrived at the theater early for the movie, yesterday, because apparently tons of moms are Star Trek nerds, and tons of families decided to celebrate Mother’s Day the same way we did (after the brunch and church &ct.). Kirk canoodles with a green alieness. There’s an earthquake and rocks tumble. There’s lots of

Listen, chum! He’s got radioactive cum! Look out: there goes the Spider Man.

Being an invitation to psychologize: So how does a beauty queen turn into the poster child against gay marriage? In the case of Miss California Carrie Prejean, the answer may lie in an ugly divorce that may have cemented her views on gay relationships. Carrie’s parents filed for divorce in 1988 and the divorce and custody fights went on for more than a decade — it was a divorce filled

Had a busy weekend, hardly any time for the internet, but I was on Twitter for awhile on Friday night, and came across a tweet by lesbifeminist of color Pam Spaudling of Pam’s House Blend: @Pam_Spaulding: – Iowa U.S. Senator Tom Harkin now supports marriage equality. http://bit.ly/ju4li || Suck it, fundies. I mean, wow. I had several things to say about the matter; here’s one: @Pam_Spaulding Imagine if we’d all