Five Films to Watch With(out) Mom this Mother’s Day Weekend


I was writing out my Mother’s Day card, and suddenly I was thinking back to Mother’s Day 2004. That year, I took mom to see Kill Bill: Vol. 2 at the movie theater. She loved it (she had already seen and enjoyed Vol. 1). My mother’s taste in movies is probably not typical for a lady her age–she has adventurous taste. Although it might seem like an odd choice for the holiday (murder, revenge, kungfu), one of Kill Bill‘s major themes (especially in Vol. 2 is motherhood. Continue reading →

People Are Scared of Gays and Their Marriages

Like a good fascist I was listening to NPR yesterday and heard either the funniest or most horrifying caller on Talk of the Nation. The subject is President Obama’s newly announced support for gay marriage and Troy from Iowa doesn’t like this one bit. Listen for yourself after the jump. Continue reading →

Zombie Thomas Jefferson Points Out Hypocrisy in Social Issues Debate

Jim Daly, evangelist and president of Christian shout-group, Focus on the Family, has some thoughts about this whole marriage issue, as you can well imagine. But nothing surprised us more than hearing the words of Thomas Jefferson in relation to Jim’s thoughts on what should constitute marriage and family in this country. So we’ve rolled up our sleeves and said an incantation or two and dragged old Thomas out of the crypt so he can respond in kind. Continue reading →