The General has discovered that one of the worst things you can do is to not listen to Laura Ingraham.

The following lyrics are in tribute to the abused id of a talk radio hostess: Attention must be paid to this woman!

Crying Radio Tears Blues
lyrics by mjs

the radio sits, alone in the dark
the dial unturned
no juice and no sparks
I am too busy, no time for my ears
it moans and it whimpers
crying radio tears
radio tears
radio tears

(chorus)
why don't you listen to me
why don't you turn me on
why won't you love me
just what has gone wrong
you're nobody special
but you raised my ire
if I can't preach it to you
I will preach to the choir
radio tears
I'm crying
radio tears
oh, doctor
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**(See Chicago Dyke's post here.)

Another stunning example emerges, of the Christian Right's version of "free to be me," which invariably involves making claims that the privileging of Christianity in various ways at various levels of governement is a constitionally protected claim to religious liberty.

A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. The religion (if any) of a second family in the lawsuit is not known, because they're suing as Jane and John Doe; they also fear retaliation. Both families are asking relief from "state-sponsored religion."

What might those two families mean by that phrase, "state-sponsored religion?" Read more…