The video below, in which Richard Dawkins interviews totally-not-gay-purchaser-but-not-user of-crystal-meth-from-studly-masseurs Ted Haggard, has been making the blogospheric rounds as evidence of Haggard’s looniness. (By the way, have you got your Pastor Ted T-shirt yet?) But while I essentially agree entirely with Dawkins on the substance of the argument here, I find myself reacting to the […]

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Some of the commentaries on the Ted Haggard scandal from the disgraced preacher’s co-religionists is illuminating. For instance: One of the most influential Christians on the planet has been accused of a lot and has admitted to some. If the purchase of drugs was all that happened then that’s bad enough. If drugs were taken […]

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Quick first thoughts on the Borat movie: I laughed a whole lot, but I’m not sure how funny it actually was. That is to say, while plenty of scenes were just straightforwardly hilarious, I think a fair amount of the laughter was more of the nervous-awkward sort, because so much of the humor involves exploiting […]

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Readers of The Weekly Standard will be familiar with its back-of-the-book “Parody” page (always prominently so labeled so you know it’s meant to be funny), which in their October 30 issue consisted of “Kids’ Letters to Barack Obama.” My eyes bulged ever so slightly at this knee-slapper: Dear Senator Obama, I’m a student here at […]

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My first instinct upon reading National Review Online‘s “libertarian” defense of Rick Santorum was that it had to be, at best, a “modest proposal” sort of put-on, and at worst an act of disingenuous desperation that even its own author couldn’t possibly believe sincerely. But then I noted that the author, in this case, was […]

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I was mildly surprised this ridiculous Kerry-gaffe story made news at all—I’m kind of blown away it’s actually stretched into a second day. And I’m into triple-takes at stories like this on how Democrats are joining the pile-on: Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said,” said Democratic Rep. Harold Ford […]

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