A $150,000 campaign donation from the Target Corporation that went to a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate led one shopper to make a video protest.
The woman, a mother and grandmother who says she has a gay relative, is upset because the candidate in question has, she says, connections to “anti-gay” groups.
The write-up for the ridiculous video that’s posted at YouTube claims that she made “repeated attempts to get to Target executives.” When those apparently failed (i.e., they didn’t stop payment on the check), she brought along a camera-wielding associate and went …

Here’s an update to my earlier post about anti-Earth Hour protestors banding together to do their part to keep the lights on rather than off for an hour this past weekend.
The Boston Globe posted a page that allows you to click on nighttime shots of cities around the world to see a before and after view of what those locations looked like at that appointed energy-saving hour.
Though some cities clearly went darker than others, it seems that Earth Hour was far more successful than one might have initially expected.
Have a …

I had no idea about this until it started popping up on Facebook, but tonight is the night that environmentalists concerned about the wasteful use of energy are encouraging people to turn off the lights for an hour.
So what’s an anti-environmental, global warming-hating, Earth Day opponent to do?
Simple: they’re encouraging their friends to turn on all of the lights in your home and brighten things up like it’s Christmas.
The person who posted the protest page on Facebook adds this:

I’ve gotten to a point where few things genuinely shock me, particularly when they come from politicians. But today, I was truly shocked by remarks attributed to Andre Bauer, South Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor.
Perhaps you’ve heard them by now.
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Greenville, on the topic of government assistance and parental responsibility, he essentially compared the poor to stray animals.

If you’ve reach the point of “disaster fatigue” and don’t want to hear anything tonight about the crisis in Haiti, tonight will be a good night to keep the television turned off.
That’s because a mammoth number of networks are airing Hope for Haiti Now, a global telethon designed to raise money for relief efforts.
You’ll find it at 8:00pm tonight on — ready for this list? —

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people — particularly the more outspoken right-wingers who’ve showed up at various tea parties not because they necessarily truly understand what those folks are fighting for but because it gives them a chance to shout — complain that they’re feeling disenfranchised.
They say that their voices aren’t being heard in Washington.
I’m just trying to figure out how this happened and where these people were hiding several years ago.
It was back in 1994 when America had its so-called Republican Revolution.  It was in 2006 when …

A reporter on CNN was interrupted by an unruly mob of protesters on Capital Hill during a live shot. These people say they’re being ignored by the media at every turn, yet when the media shows up to cover the fact that they’re there, they start shouting and chanting so loudly that the reporter can’t actually do a standup. Are they proud of themselves for acting like two-year-olds? (No offense to any well-behaved two-year-olds in my audience, of course.)

In last week’s edition of Monday’s Morals, I asked a question based on a situation I noted had actually happened to me.
The question was this:
“You see a co-worker out partying one evening and it is clear that this person is intoxicated well beyond any reasonable limit. You know that there is a designated driver who actually gets the person home. The next day, you have an opportunity to be alone with the person who was drunk. Would you say something about their drunkenness, even if you suspected that he or …

Over at Everyday Christian, there’s a new editorial about the town hall meetings that are turning into shouting matches. The editorial asks if town hall protests are un-American?
That’s quite a can of worms for a Christian website to get into. In our society, which was built on a foundation of the Separation of Church and State, what’s “American” may not always be 100% Christian, and vice versa.
But the post begins with this quote from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
These disruptions (citizens speaking up at town hall meetings about health …

In a Wall Street Journal Op/Ed entitled, “The Cronkite Tragedy,” James Taranto argues that journalistic icon Walter Cronkite will be remembered for two things: a six decades-long career and an editorial that had far-reaching consequences for the business he loved.
Taranto refers to the editorial aired at the end of a report on the Vietnam War, which aired on February 27, 1968. Cronkite had just returned from a trip to Vietnam, and added his own personal commentary to the end of the report. His assessment that a stalemate …

Sarah Palin made an appearance on NBC’s Today Show to talk about the economic situation in Alaska, and the conversation turned to a joke he made about Sarah Palin’s family.
Palin decided to complain about double standards.  Hey, I actually started to respect her for a moment.  Then, she conveniently came up with one of her own!
Letterman recently aired one of his trademark Top 10 Lists centered on the Palins, and one of the jokes suggesting that one of Palin’s daughters being impregnated by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during …

The beauty‘s in hot water again. This time, some racy photos have appeared showing Miss California contestant Carrie Prejean topless and/or semi-nude. Sources claim that the photos may have been taken when Prejean was underage, and that’s why you won’t find any of the photos — or links to them — here.
In any case, it is the latest in a string of developments in a story that shouldn’t have been a story to start with. But for the fact that so many people are talking about it that there …