Weekend TLC Blogging

Here are the first few posts for my weekend TLC blog roundup. More coming as the weekend progresses.

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Echidne sums up NY Times David Brooks's assessment of poverty as follows: "In other words, the more accurate view is that the poor are poor because they are lazy, drunk and unable to control their sexuality. This is the conservative theory on poverty: anybody can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and if they fail in this, well, the bootstraps will make a handy noose." That's a "compassionate conservative" for you.

Mustang Bobby posted an article from Al Hunt from the WSJ on Rep. Barney Frank. Frank, as expected, takes gay and lesbian issues out of the cesspool that Bush has tried to place them, with the way he (Bush) has tried to turn gay marriage into a political wedge issue. Frank sees the big picture - the social landscape that is changing. Just read the article. I can't do it justice here.

Stop by Left Is Right's Friday Fun and make sure you stop by the archives.

And Then... posted some scary news about Roy Moore, the Georgia judge with the Ten Commandments fetish. Well, not only has he decided to run for President, he's against the Gay Marriage Amendment. He said "I don't think you can make a constitutional amendment for every moral problem created by courts that don't follow the law of their states [...] If you do, you pretend to do what God has already done and make it subject to the courts. I think it's a problem to establish morality by constitutional amendments made by men when the morality of our country is plainly illustrated -- in Supreme Court precedent and in state-law precedent and in the common law -- as coming from an acknowledgement of God." As Scout said, "when our President is more Conservative than Roy Moore, you know we're totally fucked."

Speaking of the Ten Commandments, Kick the Leftist links to an article asking if the Tennessee should allow the Ten Commandments on license plates. One problem - which Ten Commandments? There are several. If they pick the one from Exodus 34, and if I lived in Tennessee, I'd want "Thou shalt not seeth a kid in it's mother's milk" on my license plate. Peter also links to a Newsday article that says that 12 years ago, Roe was closer to being overturned than we think

From The Gamer's Nook: The Mona Lisa as Jocelyn Wildenstein and Amanda Lepore. [When you're done with those links, go to the Awful Plastic Surgery site.

BlogAmy has some calm and reasoned commentary about Ann Coulter's equally calm and reasoned recent commentary. In related news, monkeys will fly out your butt.