Follow Warren and you, too, can end up like this.
Today is the big launch of Pastor Rick Warren’s “multimedia platform.” A new web site, www.purposedriven.com, new magazine, “Purpose Driven Connection,” an online community, DVDs, you name it, thanks to Readers Digest, Rick is CASHING IN, BABY.

RDA President-CEO Mary Berner said Purpose Driven Connection is much [...]

Now here’s a site that’s fun and useful. Paste Magazine is providing a wonderful utility. Just upload your pic and instantly “Obama-icon” it. You can even add your own caption, or choose one of those provided: hope, progress, change, etc. The registration part’s a bit of a pain but the results are well worth it.

Mica and his quite natural-looking rug
Floridians don’t expect much from Rep. John Mica (R-Winter Park). After all, this is the guy who pitched a tantrum and stormed out of the room when he realized he couldn’t sit in the big chairman’s chair anymore. It was 2006 and the Democrats had taken control of the House, [...]

I was looking for a postable trailer for the upcoming HBO documentary on Ted Haggard when I found this clip from before the primaries. Bill Maher and Craig Ferguson (and some other guy who never says anything) have a good time with religion generally, the cult of Mormonism specifically and Carly Fiorina (who defends Mitt [...]

“We have nothing to hide here,” Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Proposition 8, said to the Los Angeles Times, apparently without irony. “We are really trying to protect the privacy of people.”
The real reason for this lawsuit may be nothing but old fashioned greed.
Schubert, who has a gay sister but who nonetheless commissioned Prop 8’s [...]

We see why this card was on the Top 5 list at someecards.com, whose motto is “When you care enough to hit send.” It sums up our feelings exactly.

New York’s next senator
The Senate’s gain might be the House’s loss. By selecting Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to replace Hillary Clinton, New York Gov. David Paterson might have given Republicans a new House seat.
Gillibrand — an odd mix of gun control foe and gay rights advocate, anti amnesty for immigrants and pro alternative energy [...]

It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we’ll prevail in this.
— Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), quoted by the Associated Press, comparing his impeachment to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

I’m on the mailing list of the National Jewish Democratic Council because sometimes they put out statements and position papers that are just a hoot. Today, however, they sent the following statement that caused me to do a double-take:
Ira N. Forman, Executive Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), released the following statement:
The National [...]

At a time when newspapers are imploding, whole newspaper chains are going unsold on the market and the news media are casting about to understand how to serve their audiences in a rapidly changing communications environment, it might not seem the most prudent thing in the world to start up a news organization. But if [...]