Oh look, another reason not to patronize Chick-fil-A

They’re suing a t-shirt artist for having the nerve to market shirts that say “Eat more kale”: A folk artist expanding his home business built around the words “eat more kale” says he’s ready to fight root-to-feather to protect his phrase from what he sees as an assault by Chick-fil-A, which holds the trademark to … Read more

#heblowsalot update: the fallout

Both the principal, Karl Krawitz, and Emma Sullivan are receiving all kinds of negative attention as result of the Brownback apology affair. Krawitz has apparently received some death threats from different parts of the country, while Sullivan is being bullied by peers who call her an attention whore, or just a whore, and demand that … Read more

#heblowsalot

Ah, the power of Twitter. It can help organize protests, keep people in contact in the midst of tragedy, spread news like wildfire, and allow governors to become aware of the fact that teenagers are saying mean things about them. And then take action! Emma Sullivan is an eighteen year old student at Shawnee Mission East … Read more

Quote of the day

From Dr. X, discussing whether using “crazy” as a pejorative should be considered offensive to people with mental illnesses and therefore be stricken from the lexicon of a considerate person: Political correctness most certainly is about passing tests of radicals who are more interested in group identity signifiers than substance and true decency. P.C is … Read more

“Muscular Christianity” and the Penn State scandal

Cross-posted from State of Formation. University of Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown prayed on behalf of his football team and that of Penn State prior to their game on November 12th, in the wake of the latter university’s scandal regarding former head coach Joe Paterno. Which you already know about if you haven’t been living under a … Read more

Pareidolia of the day: Cliff’s note

This time on a cliff in Ireland, by a pilot called (appropriately) Sandra Clifford: Clifford, a pilot fron San Francisco, spotted the figure recently while visiting the famous Cliffs of Moher in County Clare with her friend, Fiona Fay.  The two saw what Clifford thought looked like the image of Jesus on the side of one of the … Read more

My favorite quote right now

TheTweetofGod is the Twitter account of David Javerbaum, author of The Last Testament: A Memoir By God. I follow it because somebody retweeted something hilarious he said one day and I decided that my day could do with some more ongoing hilarity. But he also makes some interesting observations, such as the one above. It … Read more

LGBT news today

1. Lesbians sent to “forced confinement” clinics in Equador are being tortured. Change.org has a petition to the Ecuadorian Minister of Health to stop the practice. 2. The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality’s (NARTH) annual conference this weekend will feature a speaker advocating for the imprisonment of gays around the world. 3. The Family Research Council is apoplectic about … Read more