Update

Terry Jones is on trial this morning by a Michigan jury which is going to decide whether or not he can protest at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn without having paid a $100,000 “peace bond.”  If that makes you do a double-take and say “Whaa?” I’m right there with you. If it doesn’t, … Read more

Threadless photography

Here’s a video on how Threadless does their seemingly endless t-shirt photo shoots, featuring photographers Sean Dorgan and Sean Donohue. If you shop at Threadless (and I do, more than I should) you’re probably familiar with how they give each shirt a style of photography and setting to complement its design, and they’re often very … Read more

Tuesday links

New Hampshire Tea Partiers’ opinions of gay marriage range from apathetic to vaguely supportive.  I wonder how many of those people are members of the Free State Project.  Check out the guy at 42 seconds in. Iowa, Florida, and Minnesota are trying to ban covert photography of factory farm operations. I would’ve thought that unauthorized … Read more

Pouncing on privilege, smack talking in/on sports

A commenter at Dispatches From the Culture Wars remarks, in response to conversation about Kobe Bryant’s recent $100,000 fine for calling a referee a “fucking faggot”: Most people who fight for ‘equal rights’ do it because they, or people close to them, are members of the group being discriminated against. They fight – and this … Read more

What color is the skin in your world?

I realize that I could dedicate this entire blog to making fun of stupid things on Fox and Friends and have more than enough material every day. I don’t want to do that, because a) there are other things to talk about, and b) doing so would require actually watching more Fox and Friends. So I’m going to … Read more

Three Hindus in Switzerland acquitted of destroying holy texts

…but only because they didn’t actually go through with it: Three men who announced their intention to burn copies of the Koran and the Bible on Bern’s Parliament Square last November have been acquitted by a Swiss court. The book burnings never took place but the three, two Indians and a Swiss, were charged with violating … Read more

Glenn Beck vs. lady parts

When a man and a woman love each other very much, her happy pink ghost has grapes. Pretty sure this is how many right-wingers understand reproduction By the way…I’m a hooker who is planning on having 400 abortions. There, I’ve outed myself. Whew! It feels good to get that off my chest. Or out of my … Read more