From the daily archives: Sunday, May 18, 2008
It turns out John McCain is actually kind of funny.
In this clip from last night’s Saturday Night Live he makes fun of his age and promises to cut wasteful spending on things like gaydar jamming devices…
“I don’t know if it’s anti-gay or pro-gay or if such a device would even work. I just know that jamming gaydar is not a federal responsibility. That’s something best left to state and local governments.”
Full Story... →Every time some righty, christofascist nutjob tries to argue that America was founded by Christians for Christians they always use the fact that U.S. coins contain the phrase “In God We Trust” to support their argument.
But this argument doesn’t hold up.
Congress didn’t pass legislation requiring the God-based motto to our coins until May 18, 1908- 120 years after the ratification of the Constitution.
President Teddy Roosevelt strongly disapproved of the idea, writing in 1907:
“My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to […]
Full Story... →On the way to Cincinnati yesterday I stopped at a truck stop and ran across a revised version of tic-tac-fruit – the “skill game” that, under HB177, became reclassified as a slot machine and was therefore outlawed under state law.
But this one was different.
In order to get around the revised state law, which says a machine can not give cash prizes and can not give a merchandise prize over $10, this machine awards winning players with a voucher for up to $10 in gas.
And just in case you wondered if this was legal- the machine […]
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