Has anybody been killed this year?

My grinchy heart just grew two sizes.

The holiday season frightens me. It is the time of year our homeless kids are most likely to attempt suicide. Kids who have been cast out of their homes suffer badly during a season that celebrates and idealizes family togetherness. Yesterday I met with a group of kids at our drop-in center in Chelsea. They were all out in the …

Within moments of Newt Gingrich’s relatively kind words about immigrant families, right wing debate watchers were predicting that his words will end his campaign. After watching the recent GOP presidential debate on CNN, William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), believes Gingrich could see his poll numbers drop significantly for calling for a “humane” immigration policy — …

“I cannot begin to describe how much you have done to protect marriage from being destroyed in America. If not for you, the anti-marriage radicals — with their rich Hollywood friends and their campaigns of violence and intimidation* — would have won a long time ago. Thanks to you, not only are we standing up to them, we are winning. …

“If it looks the same, HOW will people know I upgraded?”

From the same folks that brought you OWS.

British Columbia’s Supreme Court has upheld Canada’s ban on polygamy. Which will surely disappoint anti-gay activists in America. In a 335-page decision released on Wednesday, Chief Justice Robert Bauman ruled in favour of the section of the Criminal Code outlawing polygamous unions. In his ruling, Bauman said while the law does infringe on religious freedom, it is justified given the …

My pal Homer points us to the product tags on Michele Bachmann’s new book. Snork!

1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis starring Judy Garland.

Last night David Letterman made some cracks about Michele Bachmann which included jabs at Ladybird: “And if you’re a homosexual, her husband will take care of ya. He’s got a thing, a camp or a clinic or something. And if you’re a homosexual and you feel you’re in the need of some special treatment or counseling, he’ll take care of …

“In the larger picture, the homosexual activists are trying to have their ideology become dominant not only in the most liberal segments of society, like academia, but in the most conservative institutions, such as the military, the church, and now in sports. Liberals attack conservatives for the idea of legislating morality, but this is exactly what’s happening when one of …

Michele Bachmann isn’t satisfied with an apology from Jimmy Fallon, she wants his network to apologize too. “I think the point is,” she told Fox News’s America’s Newsroom, “if that had been Michelle Obama who had come out on the stage, and if that song had been played for Michelle Obama, I have no doubt that NBC would have apologized …

Virulently anti-gay Christian groups figure prominently in the Pew Forum’s ranking of spending for religious advocacy. Roll Call notes that NOM more than doubled its spending the year after the passage of Prop 8. Keep in mind that all of the above groups maintain separate arms for “political advocacy” and other spending. For example, the total 2010 expenditure for Focus …

AFP reports: In a little-noticed decision at the end of October, a court allowed the small National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) party to register two symbols. One was the Celtic cross, used by far-right movements internationally, while the other was a stylized illustration of gay sex with a bar through it. The NOP trumpeted the court ruling on its website …

And forcing gay kids to act less gay will save their lives.

Think Progress reports that wingnut blogs are going apeshit over the just-released estimate on police overtime and other costs related to OWS. The above chart provides some perspective.

NOM’s Ruth Institute announced yesterday that it had canned the blogger who suggested spitting on the women who tried to buy a wedding cake in Iowa. Because that kind of “sarcasm” is over the line. Yeah, right. Sarcasm. That’s what it was.