Commentary: Open your minds, America – CNN.com

GoneGator    Uncategorized    

You must read Commentary: Open your minds, America – CNN.com. My favorite line from the essay: “The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.” Ergo, the argument for secularism over orthodoxy in government.

Tebow Mania getting a bit cultish

GoneGator    Florida Gators     Jesus Christ, Tim Tebow

I’m looking forward to the start of college football season so actual games can distract us from all this Tim Tebow worship. It’s all getting a bit cultish … sort of like that other cult, Christianity. Need proof? Watch this video tribute. Tebow, Jesus. Jesus, Tebow. They’re slowly merging into one, don’t you think? But I have to admit that this other Tebow video is funny as shit.

This Is Going in Your Permanent Record, Young Man!

Lev Davidovich Wuerffel    Uncategorized     Fuck, Republican Douchebaggery, Virginia

Remember when some teacher said that shit to you in middle school, and you were like, “Fuck off, granny, nobody’s gonna give a shit in 20 years that I said your ass smells like sausage and gravy from Skeeter’s (inside, old-timey Gainesville reference!). Well, you were probably right if, like me, your greatest career aspiration is having a shot at assistant manager at Sonic, but slick, patrician Repub Robert McDonnell is learning that that shit can happen.

Twenty years ago, as a 34-year-old grad student at Pat Robertson’s farm for churning out fundie nutbags, Regent University, McDonnell wrote a master’s thesis charmingly titled “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade” (those grad students, they sure love them some colons in their paper titles!). In it he trumpeted all the tired hash those hacks always go on about: contraceptives shouldn’t be legal for unmarried people, women should be in the homes raising kids (seriously, no shit!), gays should have no legal rights, blah, blah, blah.

Unfortunately for him, Virginia’s pretty purply these days, and he’s been trying to appear kind of moderate, but this ain’t gonna help. To be fair to him, it sounds like he’s come a few steps out of the 4th century, considering one of his daughters fought in Iraq and both have master’s degrees, but the article I read didn’t say nothing about whether they have JOBS or anything.

Anyway, he’s already put the smooth spin on this, trying to turn it around on his democratic challenger, some guy named Creigh Deeds, but we’ll see how it goes for him. The other guy who posts here probably ought to say something about this, since he lives in that state and all.