Archives September 2008

CNN Missing the Point on Pulpit Initiative

Background: the
Alliance Defense Fund,
a right-wing religious group, is backing the
Pulpit Initiative,
in which, on Sep. 28, 2008, a bunch of pastors will give sermons
directly endorsing specific political candidates. They’re hoping to be
sued, and to use the suit to overturn the law against churches
directly endorsing candidates.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez hosted a “he-said, he-said” exchange about this:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vsNx5ooBU&hl=en&fs=1]

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An Ethical Question

The Daily Show’s already mostly made the same point, so I may as well put out here something that’s been rattling around my brain for a while.

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Friday Playlist

Waiting for
Hanna to hit edition.

  1. Gabriel Yared, Des orages pour la nuit
  2. Rush, The Way the Wind Blows
  3. The Doors, Riders on the Storm
  4. Assemblage 23, Let the Wind Erase Me
  5. Duran Duran, Hold Back the Rain
  6. Eurythmics, Here Comes the Rain Again
  7. Assemblage 23, I Am the Rain
  8. XTC, 1000 Umbrellas
  9. Deep Purple, Stormbringer
  10. Neil Young, Like a Hurricane
  11. Scorpions, Rock You Like a Hurricane
  12. KMFDM, Sturm & Drang
  13. Jimi Hendrix, Still Raining, Still Dreaming
  14. They Might Be Giants, Stormy Pinkness
  15. Peter Gabriel, Here Comes the Flood
  16. Nitzer Ebb, Floodwater
Webster Cook Removed from Office

Webster Cook, the University of Central Florida student who
precipitated
Crackergate
by failing to eat[1]
a piece of bread he was given, has been
removed from his post on the SGA,
the university’s newspaper reports.

[1] Since Cook’s “crime” was that of not eating, I’m
amused at the fact that the UCF Associate Campus Minister’s name is Swallows.

The only thing that could make this better would be if his colleague’s
name were Spitz.