News 9/02/10

(Corrado Giaquinto's painting of God and the Devil having a little chat):

Satan: "Where do you want to eat tonight?"
The Lord: "Oh, I don't know..."
Satan: "We could go to that little Italian place near my house."
The Lord: "They've got a great wine list but the service sucks. Besides, we ate in Hell last night."
Satan: "Fine. Where do YOU want to eat?"

(And so on unto eternity...)

• Yet another reason Obama's opposition to marriage equality is so very galling: California GOP senate candidate Carly Fiorina explains that she opposes gay marriage, just like the President. Her opponent, senator Barbara Boxer supports marriage equality and narrowly leads in recent polling. Mr. President, your refusal to speak out for equal protection and due process gives comfort to the forces of evil. Shame on you.

• Guest blogger Adam Serwer over at Washington Post's Plum Line has an interesting summary of recent Republican movement towards greater acceptance of gay rights and what this means to the Democrats. In short the Dems. are falling behind at their peril.

• Via Joe My God: Australian homophobe MP caught watching forty nine billion hours worth of nasty, nasty porn on his government computer. Reverend Fred Nile claims that it was one of his assistants who viewed porn for a few seconds for "research purposes." Claims no one on his staff was "sitting there perving."

• Joe Miller needs a shave and thinks Obama is "bad for America." Miller defeated Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska primary this week and opposes the "entitlement state." Um, how much money do Alaskans receive from their government each year?