Mature Themes
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pmMy faithful readers know that I can’t get enough of the game Rock Band. And who can blame me? The game’s designers, Harmonix, work tirelessly…
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Evangelical Christian Gays Looking For Long-Term Compatability are Now Covered Once They Fill Out That Weird Personality Test
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmYou probably know eHarmony.com. Their commercials are everywhere. They’re the dating service that promotes itself based on compatibility and long-term commitment. They’re also notorious for…
Idiocracy
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pmAfter deep introspection and soul searching, some of the torch bearers of the right have finally realized how Barack Obama won the presidency.
“Lots and…
Tom Brokaw Thinks We Suck
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 17th, 2008 at 11:24 amInterim Meet the Press host and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw loves generations. The World War II generation? They’re the greatest. The boomers?…
Smashing Pumpkins Public Service Annoucement
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pmI bought tickets to see the Smashing Pumpkins play a club on Halloween. The show was advertised as an acoustic reflection on the groups 20…
Conservative Paranoia
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 12th, 2008 at 10:42 amWith a Democratic legislature and a Democratic executive that can appoint a liberal judiciary, some conservatives are fearful of the changes that are going to…
Reason Number 842 to Hate Wal-Mart
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:30 amA lot of progressives don’t like Wal-Mart because they crush local business. Or because they offer laughably bad benefits. Or because of their record of…
A Special Night in Ohio
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:56 amWell, I finally figured out how to vote in Ohio without waiting in long lines. The trick was to apply for an absentee ballot (total…
Early Voting is Very Time-consuming
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmOn Friday I walked the two miles to my local early voting place in the heart of Columbus, Ohio. I figured that on a Friday…
Adventures on the Editorial Page
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 31st, 2008 at 10:29 amThe News-Leader is the hometown paper for the good people of Springfield, Missouri, population 150,000. Let’s all give its editors a big round of applause…
Why Couldn’t They Spend $15 Million Turning Them Into Food?
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 30th, 2008 at 11:49 amDue only to circumstance, I caught one segment on Wednesday’s edition of CBS’s The Early Show. How lucky for me that this one segment was…
Michelle Malkin Needs to Take a History Class
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pmNo one is arguing that hanging an effigy of a politician is an acceptable way to express one’s views. Yes, someone did that to an…
Double Standards
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 amCNN is reporting that John McCain has claimed that America’s enemies will be encouraged to attack us should we, the American electorate, elect Barack Obama…
Yes, Sarah Palin Supports the FMA. Who Cares?
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 21st, 2008 at 10:16 amYesterday, my beloved editor Jesse Singal wrote a post about Sarah Palin’s stance on the Federal Marriage Amendment. I’m obviously not surprised that a candidate…
The Journalists Should Inform the People, Not the Other Way Around
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 16th, 2008 at 9:54 amCapital punishment is not acceptable. There are no exceptions. If we capture Osama bin Laden, we should not execute him. If, in some wonderful hypothetical…
