Media: April 2007
Out of Oregon
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 25, 2007 6:23 PM |In the great state of Oregon, a state rep. denounced that state's attempt to pass civil rights legislation this year as the equivalent of the Virginia Tech shooting. From Loaded Orygun:A Tragic Week in Review This past week has been...Read More
Stephen Bennett's up to it again
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 24, 2007 6:51 PM |I catch flack from time to time in the comments about my use of the phrase "heterosexual supremacy". I personally think it gets right to the point - these people think that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities and...Read More
WBC cancels Virginia Tech protest in exchange for radio time
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2007 1:47 PM |From one of their press releases yesterday:Westboro Baptist Church hereby cancels all pending pickets, and agrees not to schedule future pickets, related to The Virginia Tech Massacre, on the following terms and conditions; to wit: In consideration for 3 hours...Read More
Does it make me a bad person to laugh at this?
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2007 10:10 AM |Ah, yes, the gay experience. This is pretty much my life in a nutshell: You can give their comments some love here. (h/t Good As You)...Read More
Disgracing Eric Alva
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2007 1:12 PM |If, for some reason, you feel like having an "ugh" moment, Pam found a bunch of comments from freerepublic.com about Eric Alva, the first servicemember injured in Iraq who is also gay. Apparently for many conservatives "Support the Troops" refers...Read More
Westboro Baptist "Church" odds and ends
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 18, 2007 11:45 PM |Well, you've probably heard by now that our good friends at the Phelps Klan have decided to protest the funerals of the Virginia Tech victims. This is one of those, you've gotta be kidding me moments. They have been protesting...Read More
Jesus loves me, but he can't stand you
Filed by Bil Browning | April 13, 2007 6:41 AM |Don't you just love home movies? Sing a-longs? Here for your Friday enjoyment is the lovely Fred Phelps clan with their first music video, "God Hates the World." Yes, it's set to "We Are the World." No, I'm not gonna...Read More
Yep, they're still boycotting Ford, and a bit on the the far right's echo chamber
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 11, 2007 11:26 PM |Well, some homophobes are a bit ticked off that respectable journalists aren't giving their Ford boycott the attention that it needs to become a real, grown-up boycott. They even put out a study about the lack of media attention on...Read More
Fire Imus
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | April 10, 2007 7:03 PM |I wanted to let the rage die back so I could write rationally. It hasn't. Call me Herodias if you like but I want the man's head on a platter -- at least figuratively. A two-week suspension after his career...Read More
On Don Imus
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 10, 2007 1:22 PM |Gwen Ifill has an op-ed at the New York Times today about Don Imus's comments last week. Here's a bit:It is about the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. That game had to be the biggest moment of their lives, and the outcome...Read More
"Most men are sexually attracted to young women"
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2007 5:26 PM |This is from a straight male judge sentencing a guy who was found with a bunch of porn involving kids under the age of ten: "These kinds of offenses are problems with impulse control," said Carson City District Judge Bill...Read More
The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing the Myths
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2007 9:44 AM |Here's something that's kinda old, but since I mentioned it in comments last night I thought that I'd give this link some love that Technorati and Google would care about. Jim Burroway of boxturtlebulletin.com put together a booklet about heterosexuality...Read More
Fred Phelps does Sweden
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2007 6:07 PM |Not to give them any more attention than they deserve, the Phelps clan has been sending hate faxes to the Swedish royal family:A spokesman for Sweden's royals has confirmed that American preacher Rev Fred Phelps has been faxing hate messages...Read More
