Markos Moulitsas will be on Meet the Press today, with the DLC’s own Harold Ford. Could be fun. I’ll be in a zendo most of the morning and will miss it, but feel free to comment.
See also this op ed by Susan Gardner and Markos in yesterday’s Washington Post.
In religion news, David Neiwert reports that Rep. Bill Sali has recanted and says he didn’t mean to say that there shouldn’t be Muslims serving in Congress. David also posts more evidence that the Founding Fathers explicitly intended to include Islam in the protections of religious liberty.
Fundies are, apparently, still hollering about a Hindu prayer in Congress, because Hindus are (on the surface, anyway) polytheists. Hindu scholars might argue that Hindus were really the first monotheists, since all gods and beings are manifestations of Brahman, the One, but never mind. Once again, I give you Thomas Jefferson:
“But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.â€
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
Now, is that so hard?
See also: Digby on the unrelenting creepiness of what fundies call “Christian love.” Logan Murphy at Crooks and Liars for more on the megachurch that canceled a memorial service for a veteran of the Gulf War when they found out the deceased was gay. Max Blumenthal on fundie proselytizing in the military.
Ya can’t go wrong quoting TJ.
Who would Jesus drag?
Please pardon me for interrupting the ongoing topic matter. I just quickly want to invite all Mahablog participants to sample my new progressive Internet show, Topical HeatWave. The accompanying Press Release should answer most of your questions. Since I’ll have no phones for a couple of months, I very much invite your e-mail participation describing issues of interest to you. Thank you for allowing me this time. If you enjoy the show, tell your friends.
Press Release:
INVITATION TO ALL MAHABLOG PROGRESSIVES
It’s been a tough new millennium. Progressives have been bullied into irrelevance by the PNAC administration and their corporate media henchmen. I know; I was fired as a talk show host twice in recent years; once by Clear Channel and once by Cumulus. My sin? Criticizing the Bush administration.
A recent analysis of 257 news/talk radio stations owned by the top five commercial station owners (including Clear Channel and Cumulus) found 2,570 hours of conservative talk radio each weekday compared to 254 hours of progressive talk. Those are numbers you’d expect in a fascist state, not a democracy.
But I won’t curl up in the basement and shut up forever. I’m going to keep talking.
My next venue is Internet radio – no bosses and no censors. My show is Topical HeatWave. It runs 24/7 with a new two hour show added every weekday at about 3:00 PM. That show then cycles in two-hour increments until the next day’s effort. At first there will be no phones. My subject matter will be driven by current events, progressive sites and blogs and most especially, your E-mails.
I’ll also lighten things up occasionally – all Bush, all the time, tends to get depressing.
You can join me by going to http://www.live365.com. Under ‘genres’ click on talk (the last one). At the talk site, type in topical heatwave…click on go and follow the prompts. You can make subsequent access easier by making my station a preset.
My e-mail is [email protected].
Dennis Shreefer
Host, Topical HeatWave