It’s Only Words’ Sexiest Man Alive Award, 2009
People Magazine has named Johnny Depp as its "Sexiest Man Alive" for the second time. Are you freaking kidding me? With so many delicious choices, they're trotting out Depp for a second go-round?

Some Open Questions For Conservatives
A controversy arose last night on Twitter, revolving around someone's assertion that a person cannot be both gay and conservative, presumably because a gay person would favor legalizing gay marriage.

Mere Coincidence Or Divine Retribution?
If you live in King County, Washington, you may have seen that some Metro buses are carrying a very special Christmas message. Just as they did last year, with their obnoxious display at the State Capitol, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has chosen a sort of oafish insensitivity over reason as a means to make their statement of faith. Why else would they choose to paraphrase much-loved defense of the faith and joy inherent in the Christmas season, if not to offend Christians?

Because People Don’t Kill People; Guns Kill People
LALALAND - A teen was killed in a shooting Saturday afternoon outside a local mall, officials said. The gun remains at large, but A police spokesman said investigators anticipated identifying it soon.

A Staggering Ignorance
I guess I should have expected this from the Los Angeles Times, but I'll admit to being just a bit shocked all the same. Reporting on the GOP alternative health care proposal, Janet Hook writes, "Unlike the Democrats' strategy of trying to provide near-universal coverage and force other major changes to the insurance system, the Republican approach is an incremental one that would do far less to reduce the ranks of the uninsured. It would instead give priority to controlling healthcare costs."