Rick Perry Wants Us to Hand It Over to God

And speaking of crazy and the current crop of Republican presidential wannabes, as Justin Elliott notes at Salon today, Rick Perry wants us just to hand it all over to God to make it right.  Perry says,

Paul Krugman Calls Out the Media for Facilitating Crazy

In his inimitable way, Paul Krugman calls out the crazy-facilitators in the mainstream media who have shamelessly pandered to made one excuse after another for a Republican party that has long since gone off the deep end:

Herman Cain, Michael Irvin, and Debates about the Future of African-American Voting Patterns

South Carolina GOP Debate, May 2011

I had lunch today with two of my high-school classmates.  Well, actually, one of the two was a class ahead of the other two of us, I believe.  We try to get together as often as possible, and always have a great time when we do.

Cloyne Report Appears, and Commonweal Blog Discussion Develops

Pope Benedict with Bishop John Magee of Cloyne

 

The much-anticipated Cloyne report, the Irish government's report on its findings in its investigation of sexual abuse cases in the diocese of Cloyne, has now been released, and is gaining much attention.  Since I haven't yet read the report, I won't comment on it at any length now.  I plan to do so in the near future.

Peter Finnochiaro at Salon: Global-Warming Denial Concentrated in States Now Burning Up

The irony to which I pointed yesterday--namely, that the ongoing drought in the southern sector of the U.S. is occurring in states that now most fiercely defend the "right" of corporations to destroy the environment, states in which there are large numbers of climate-change deniers: that irony is not lost on Peter Finnochiaro, either.

News Coverage of Marcus Bachmann's Ex-Gay Therapy Accelerates

As Timothy Beauchamp points out at Americablog Gay today, citing Andy Towle at Towleroad, seven cable television shows have now given prominent coverage to Truth Wins Out's exposé of the "ex-gay" therapy being done by Marcus Bachmann's Minnesota clinic.  Beauchamp concludes that the story is huge.

Global Warming and the Drought of the Southern U.S.

I'm glad to see Peter Finnochiaro call the New York Times' hand re: its recent reporting on the horrific drought from Arizona to Florida.  Both in its article yesterday on the drought and its editorial today, the Times conspicuously omits any mention of global warming as a cause of the excessive heat and lack of rainfall across the southern tier of states, and suggests that La Niña is to blame.