Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:41:11 pm
A Catholic preschool in Boulder Colorado has refused to admit a child with gay parents. What can you even say about an appalling story like this? Punishing the innocent doesn’t seem like something Jesus would have approved of. BOULDER, Colo. — A preschooler is caught in the middle of a fight ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:52:32 pm
Does this qualify as a mild form of child abuse: teaching children to distrust science and believe lies? I think it does. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to try to stop these parents (through legislation) from destroying their children’s ability to think critically, but it’s not hard to make a case ...

Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:02:51 pm
Here we go again, with yet another horrifying child sex abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church — this time in Germany: German Catholic schools at center of abuse scandal. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they ...

Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:56:50 pm
Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the Web ...

Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:56:19 pm
So far this week, we’ve filed 31 emails in the “Abuse” folder, and here are a few of the most vitriolic and/or inadvertently funny ones. Profanities and pathetic grammar left intact for full effect. First up, we have a reader in New York City who followed a link from a Google ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:40:02 pm
Following up on yesterday’s post about our shocking (albeit unintentional) abuse of the bit.ly API, I emailed my contact at bit.ly and let him know about the changes in the LGF Blog code, and got this reply: Thanks! The number of /shorten requests from your account has fallen dramatically. You’re ...

Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am
Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.” Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:29:49 pm
Redstate.com, home to some of the most extreme far right bloggers on the web, the site whose CEO infamously called Justice Souter a “goat-f*cking child molester,” has announced that they will be in charge of vetting and approving the bloggers for this year’s CPAC, which seems completely appropriate: We’ve got ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:19:51 pm
Ten American Baptists are in jail in Haiti for attempting to smuggle 33 “orphans” out of the country — and many of the children aren’t even orphans at all: Road From Haiti Was Paved With Good Intentions, American Baptists Say. And one of the pastors involved has denounced “the accusations of ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:08:59 pm
The religious right’s paragons of virtue are terribly concerned about children as long as they’re still in the womb. But as soon as they’re born, they’re on their own: Georgia’s Christian right comes out against bill aimed at child prostitution. The weight of the state’s Christian right movement just came ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:13:01 am
Security guy Bruce Schneier has a cautionary piece at CNN on the rush by many democratic governments around the world to grant new surveillance powers to police forces, often requiring large web services such as Gmail to have “back door” access systems — back doors that are being exploited by ...

Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:37:26 pm
After the New York Times Magazine article a lot of wingnut blogs are coming up with imaginative new smears tonight, but I’m grateful for the positive words from Alan Colmes: Little Green Footballs’s Charles Johnson And The Right-Wing Flame War. Charles Johnson is a true original, his knowledge of code ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:47:02 pm
So much of the news from Haiti is bad, but here’s a little bit of good news from one of the field hospitals set up by Israeli medical teams: Haiti Earthquake: Mother Delivers Baby In Disaster Zone. By Sunday afternoon, Moritz received the first few hopeful e-mail messages from Besser ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:57:13 pm
A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child’s drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:52:28 am
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...

Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:10:17 am
Here’s RedState.com’s head wingnut, Erick Erickson, confronted by Stephen Colbert with just a few of the weird extremist statements he’s made; for example, that “Justice Souter is a goat-f*cking child molester,” and “I didn’t realize the Nobel Prize committee had an affirmative action quota.” Erickson says the former statement “wasn’t his ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:07:11 am
Here’s the disgusting religious right story of the day, as the New York Times reports on a visit by three US evangelical leaders to Uganda that helped trigger the full scale persecution of homosexuals: After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays. KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:43:47 am
Hateblogger Jim Hoft replies to my post pointing out that he linked to an antisemitic, anti-America Bulgarian conspiracy website, by lashing out and accusing me of “supporting child porn:” A New Low… Charles Johnson Now Supporting Child Porn in Classrooms & Fisting Kits at School Functions. Please note, Mr. Hoft: Eugene ...