Mike Tidmus

Keith Olbermann mops the floor with former President George W Bush (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) A picture is worth a thousand words. So are these two words: George W Bush’s Mission Accomplished speech was delivered on 1 May 2003 (photo: AP via Wikipedia) (tip: Digby, Hullabaloo)

I’m not really sure who comes across as the more desperate character: former congressman Newt Gingrich or his personal Igor, Pastor Jim Garlow, who is currently running Newt’s Renewing American Leadership. Gingrich Wants Ground Zero Declared a National Battlefiled Memorial to Stop Park 51 Right Wing Watch Gingrich came on to discuss his recent column [...]

This ought to put an appreciable twist in the theists’ knickers. Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe BBC News There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new [...]

Glee’s Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) from Rolling Stone’s series on TV’s Best Characters and Most Memorable Scene-Stealers (photo: Rolling Stone)

“A handful of pencil-necked, metrosexual socialists in Washington can’t possibly defeat a nation of red-blooded, God-fearing patriots. … The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well in Honduras — especially in Honduras, where their Marxist just tried to tamper with their constitution, and guess what happened? The Honduran military took that socialist dictator wannabe [...]

“Let me be clear: I don’t want the GOP to pick up gay votes and I have no intention of voting Republican myself. Ever, ever, ever. But if Dems are worried about gay and lesbian progressives sitting out this election and the GOP managing to pick up the votes gay conservatives idiots, well, here’s how [...]

Christian pastor’s Ground Zero stunt garners negative attention (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) An infinitesimally small amount of negative media coverage of his attempt at garnering headlines, sent Pastor Bill Keller into make believe, full metal Poor Oppressed Christian™ mode: Press Supports Mosque but Condemns 9-11 Christian Center ~ Christian Newswire ST PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. [...]

“Here in America we’ve had what maybe three known real big terrorist attacks on our nation. But every day our young people especially, all of us, but our young people especially are in a sense bombarded with the message that homosexuality is normal and natural.” — Sally Kern, Oklahoma state legislator and Christian, following up [...]

“You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists [...]

Say Cheese! Glee ‘Vogue’ Flash Mob At Sydney QVB (video: RockYourBox at YouTube) This world needs two things: more gay kiss-ins and more flash mobs. Click here to watch lots more of each.

NPR has a piece up on Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, who talks about his encounter with the author of Uganda’s infamous exterminate-the-gays bill, Christian MP David Bahati: “Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that [...]

NOM-funded mailers are flooding DC with BS (graphic: The National Organization for Marriage) The National Organization for Marriage’s modus operandi is spending oodles of mystery manna from their Mormon and Catholic financiers while blitzkrieging from state to state, meddling in local political affairs, targeting gay-friendly politicians, suing state-level election ethics boards, and influencing elections with [...]

Takedown of NOM’s Lies About Prop 8 (video: stop8org at YouTube) Well done, Matt. Over at http://stop8.org, we see a lot of silly claims about Prop 8, but the new radio ad put out by the National Organization for Marriage last week is just out-and-out deceitful. It’s packed full of lies and misrepresentations, so we [...]

No, Alveda King, Our Founders Did Not Put “God” On Our Money (video: ChrisRodda2 at YouTube) “They [the founders] had enough sense to put on the back of that money ‘In God We Trust.’ You can’t eat a piece of bread in America without remembering that you have to trust God to get it.” — [...]

“There is a strong conservative case to be made in favor of gay marriage. Marriage is an institution that strengthens and stabilizes society. It is an institution that has the capacity to bring profound joy and happiness to people and it is a matter of equality and keeping faith of one of the charters of [...]