Mike Tidmus

The fine folks at Americans United have assembled a list of religious freedom issues for President-Elect Obama’s incoming team to address. It’s high time they put the radical religious right in its proper place — and be sure to tightly close the lid. 2009 will be the year America finally begins to undo the damage that eight [...]

This is ironic because, when the President-Elect picked pop-pastor Rick Warren to handle the in-God-we-trust bit at the inauguration, I was outraged — as you might have gathered if you’ve been reading along. At the time, I said to a friend that Mr Obama could have made a wiser and less divisive choice … [several expletives deleted] … [...]

I have to admit that I nearly fell on the floor last week when the divine Ms Maddow described the power struggle for leadership of the Republican National Committee as “a sack full of angry squirrels” going at it. Sarah Posner, writing for the American Prospect in her regular column, The Fundamentalist, has some thoughts on the [...]

Yes-on-H8 bigwig signatures on their letter extorting cash and support from one of many No on Prop 8 donors who received the letter Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate has a pretty good idea about just who might be behind that lawsuit to hide the Yes-on-H8 campaign donor names from the public. From Californians Against Hate: Who is [...]

Wasting gas for Jesus? How about feeding the poor?  (Photo: mine, 10 January, San Diego) So what do call two dirty old men who cross state lines in a filthy pick-up truck, tricked out with huge photos and plastered with anti-queer clichés, who lurk around trying to get the media’s attention during an anti-DOMA rally and [...]