~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more… A half-dozen slurpable stories for your consumption. All titles are links. Eat up!  Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Jobs Funeral Yes, apparently the most hateful, vicious, mean-spirited group of “religious” wingnuts, who made famous the “God Hates Fags” slogan, will be picketing [...]

Greetings from CPAC! Former Vice President Dick Cheney got a heck of a greeting at CPAC, the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference where conservatives of all stripes come together to wallow in varying degrees of narrow-mindedness, religious zeal, military might, fiscal conservatism, and social backwardness. There are usually some internal squabbles about things like LGBT [...]

Do you want to wish someone a Muddy Christmas and a Bloggy New Year? I got an email from Newt Gingrich’s “Human Events Newsletter” that told me all about what I could buy those special conservatives on my Christmas List. The list ranged from Glenn Beck’s book “The Christmas Sweater” (I get itchy just thinking [...]

I’d been trying to find a copy of this ad, and finally did.  This is the ad that Tiffany & Co., put in the October issue of the trade magazine National Jeweler. The text reads: PLEASE ASK YOURSELF WHY WOULD TIFFANY & CO. WHOSE LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON MINING, BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE PEBBLE MINE AND [...]

The world’s most famous jeweler, Tiffany & Co. is leading the charge of jewelers against the Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska, which threatens to put a huge open pit gold mine smack in the middle of the largest wild salmon fishery in the world.  Obviously Tiffany & Co. likes gold, and certainly isn’t opposed [...]