5 right-wing talking points flamed in 15 seconds...is that a record?

Stephen Colbert - 2006 Knox College Commencement Address:

And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-poorest borders. Now I know you’re all going to say, “Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America.” Yes, but here’s the thing—it’s built now. I think it was finished in the mid-70s sometime. At this point it’s a touch-up and repair job. But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spansih, the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools.

i feel this way every year...

I am eternally surprised by the fact that the "winter" sport of hockey has its finals 10 days away from the start of summer, months after the last vestiges of snow and ice are off the bulk of the country.  I know the reason (its cheaper to compete for air time and fan attention with baseball than it is to compete with football) but still - they wonder why by the time June rolls around, nobody gives a shit, then maybe they should keep the winter sports in the winter where they belong.

Basketball?  Screw June - College's system works for the money and attention - go with an all-or-nothing tournament - create a May Madness (the hype around March is over as is the hype of baseball's opening in April), refresh everybody's attention rather than reminding us that you have 4 teams playing a max of 15 games over the course of 5 weeks by which time its taken so long we're just eternally sick of the whole damn enterprise.

Hockey should start 3 months earlier and end 3 months earlier, while we still "feel" cold.  Basketball should end with a rousing free-for-all rather than this dragged down day-after-day of the same 10 names being repeated as if they mean something after this long.

bleh.

I'm just getting sick of these asshats.

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Weakest Argument Against Gay Marriage:

If it walks like a bigot and talks like a bigot, it's a legal scholar fighting a noble crusade to protect our children from the heathens. -- "Capt Rational", comment #3.

This was in response to Princeton U Professor Robert George: "if homosexual marriage is legalized, individuals who believe in traditional marriage could be treated as bigots and their religious views on homosexual marriage could be subject to attack -- and possibly even prosecution."

in other words, bigots might be treated like bigots, but that's a slippery slope (and a fallacy) to the repression of free speech for those who want to take away our free speech.

Any "scholar" who trounces out such an obviously bogus slippery-slope argument needs to get his fucking ass back into school as a student, 'cause it shows he didn't learn a fucking thing.

btw, this ignorant wing-nut is one of the two authors of the proposed marriage amendment.  the other: Robert Bork.

you'd think we'd learned to ignore shitheads like those by now.