Quote of the week

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." - A book to which modern Christians pay no attention

The Tea Party

I've commented before on the right's disdain for facts. Now we have yet another example that those who oppose the right are not necessarily better.

"Everyone knows" that the teabaggers, in addition to being lily-white, are poorer and less well educated than the country as a whole. Nonetheless, The New York Times, which can hardly be dismissed as having a pro-Tea-Party bias, has reported something quite different. Feel free to agree or disagree with the Tea Party's aims, but at least be factually correct.

Republicans and smaller government (2)

Gotta love that Republican commitment to smaller, less intrusive government. Not only did Bob Ehrlich earn a reputation for turning the Maryland State Police into the KGB, but also, The Washington Post reports that state government spending increased more under Ehrlich than under O'Malley. As conservatives love to say, but only when it suits them, "What happened happened, and what didn't happen didn't happen."

Quote of the week

"They would have been equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced." - Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Naked Guy

Jurors have given "Naked Guy" something resembling justice and have stood up to both the ever-expanding nanny state and Virginia state and local leaders' penchant for making this state a national laughingstock. Countdown until someone screams about unelected liberal activist jurors: Five, four, three ....

Oh, but I forget. Nanny statism isn't really nanny statism when social conservatives like the result, right?

Sancta iPad, ora pro nobis.

Apple fanboyism resembles a religion in more ways than just fervor. The fanboys use many of the same tactics as do religious apologists: willful ignorance, refusal even to look at counter-evidence, ignoring inconvenient questions, and just plain intellectual dishonesty in putting words into others' mouths.

Quote of the week

"We do not tell -- we show. We do not claim -- we prove. It is not your obedience that we seek to win, but your rational conviction." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.