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Jonathan Turley is troubled, in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, by how Supreme Court nominee John Roberts reportedly answered a question by Sen. Dick Durbin. Durbin is, like Roberts, a Catholic, but one who has no trouble ignoring his church’s teachings on abortion while he serves in the Senate.
Jeffrey Weiss of The Dallas Morning News offered an amazing package about Pete Seeger on Saturday and Sunday, including a Q&A about his nominal Unitarianism, another Q&A on his standing up to the House Un-American Activities Committee and his life as a happy lefty; and still another brief feature on his strawberry shortcake recipe.
Yesterday, Ted Kennedy . . . ah, you’ll never believe this one no matter how much I explain it. Let’s go to the AP:
That was the caption that got morning radio hosts Corey Deitz and Jay Hamilton suspended from the “Corey and Jay Show” in Little Rock, Arkansas. The pair had posted a cartoon on the show’s website. This AP story strongly hints that Clear Channel Communications, owner of the hosts’ station, did not take kindly to the gesture. They were kicked off the air for one day, which led National Review‘s Stanley Kurtz to ask, “Is nature our new religion, then? Or, to put the question in a slightly different way, can a woodpecker be the victim of hate speech?”
This is going to be a tough one. My assignment is to give some comment on Jeff Sharlet’s “here come the virgins” piece from the last issue of Rolling Stone, and I suddenly wish that magazine hadn’t taken this blog’s advice.
As Tom Cruise makes the media rounds to talk up both War of the Worlds and Scientology, it’s beginning to feel as though he’s reprising his role as Frank T.J. Mackey, the strutting rooster of a motivational speaker in Magnolia. By now it would be unremarkable for Cruise to order that his next befuddled interviewer “respect the Thetan.”
And now it is time for another episode of Barbara Nicolosi and James the New York Times reporter. Barbara is the leader of the Act One screenwriting workshops in Hollywood and one of the most witty, at times even snarky, former nuns one would ever want to meet. “Snarky” can be a good thing, right?
Ugh, not a good morning. Suffice it to say that the casa de Lott has woodpecker problems and I’m not laughing. Readers, how do you tell a woodpecker to get lost? Bear in mind that I can’t get a clean shot at him and I’ve already tried the “Hey, let’s try some knocking too to see how you like it!” trick. I think he thought he’d found a mate.
