Given the damage that religion has wreaked in our modern world—and no religion is exempt—one would think that in attempting to rehabilitate the role of religion in modern life, one would seek to avoid association with violence.
But instead, with “The Book of Eli,” that is what we get: Violence. Post-apocalyptic violence justified by the Bible. [...]

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The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that they will stop using the term “swine flu” to refer to the current influenza outbreak, in favor of the more technical term, influenza-A (H1N1). This was primarily in response to the Egyptian government—a government so profoundly stupid that there are no words in any language to properly [...]

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I’m not sure where to start. Journalism is simply out the window these days and inflammatory language is all the rage.

Obama gown-maker ‘designs transvestite dolls’
The designer who created Michelle Obama’s inauguration ballgown is better known for making dolls in the image of famous transvestites.
Wu was perhaps best known for creating a range of RuPaul dolls [...]

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Defining marriage as “one man and one woman” may seem an appropriate boundary for society to define. But in the process, defining marriage serves to re-define family, or at least re-defining the legal protections available to a family.

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I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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For those of you who are still having a hard time wrapping your head around the nature of the circus-freak that is Sarah Palin, here’s a brief primer.
Who votes for Sarah Palin? The McCain campaign has been pushing the idea—in fact counting on it—that Palin would draw disaffected Hillary Clinton voters to the Republican ticket. [...]

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Of pigs and pit bulls:

Lipstick wars: McCain claims sexism
The McCain campaign quickly posted a mischievous video charging that the “lipstick on a pig” quote by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was a sexist reference to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Seems to me that Sarah Palin is the one that put the lipstick joke out there in the [...]

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Usually, the letters to the editor in the Rocky Mountain News are of a relatively vapid quality. And then, on occasion, we get crap like this:

Nightmare for Dems
Jim Schwartz, Centennial
The Democrats’ worst presidential election nightmare has occurred: They have been im-Palin-ed with John McCain’s vice presidential choice.

What the fuck?
Who on the Rocky’s editorial staff thinks [...]

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Hand in hand with the lunacy that God uses weather to smite the sinful is the lunacy that by thinking hard enough, the invisible man in the clouds will read your thoughts and do your bidding. So we get what we had here a couple weeks ago, which is Focus on the Family praying for torrential rain of “biblical proportions” during Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday.

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