Disney tells J D Worley (photo) he cannot go to Disney World looking like that. He must shave, because Santa is a Disney character! Moonbattery. My opinion? This guy should be busy with his elves in the North Pole two weeks before Christmas, and not hanging out with all of the fat Americans at Tinsley World. (Image borrowed from Moonbattery)
What happened to the bird flu scare? An update. (h/t, Junk Science)
Update on the unraveling of the Episcopalians. Is this really all about homosexuality? I doubt it. NYT. I suspect that was just the final straw.
YouTube and copyright laws. It all sounds fuzzy, but one probably shouldn't post copyrighted stuff on YouTube.
This year's war on Christmas. From a piece by Steyn:
Seattle Airport could certainly put up a menorah. And maybe a commemoration of Eid, and Kwanzaa, and something for solstice worshippers, and perhaps something for litigious atheists. But to do that is to turn society into a kind of greater airport departure lounge -- to say it's no more than an assemblage of whoever happens to be in it at any particular time. Successful societies (unlike plastic trees) have deep roots: Nobody should be obliged to believe Jesus is the son of God, but likewise nobody should take such umbrage at trees and tinsel and instrumental versions of "Silent Night" that he would deny the reality of the land he lives in to the vast majority of his fellow citizens. Because the logic of that leads not to a diverse secular society but to an atomized ersatz non-society. And, as those other touchy types the Islamists well understand, once you put reality up for grabs, all kinds of pathologies suddenly become viable.
On which note, God rest ye merry. It's tougher than you'd think.
From a piece by Fjordman on Alexander Boot's book, How the West was Lost:
Is Islam compatible with democracy? This is a question I address elsewhere. We also have to ask ourselves, however, whether the conditions needed for a properly functioning democratic system are currently present even in the West. I’m not always sure about that. In a functioning democratic state, the state passes laws in accordance with the wishes of the people, and also strives to uphold these laws. In Western Europe in particular, the state does neither, as most laws are passed by unelected EU bureaucrats and not elected national parliaments, and as the streets are increasingly ruled by gangs and criminals.
