Lux Americana

I’ve been meaning to showcase the awesome editorial cartoons of Terence Nowicki, Jr. on here for awhile – hunting through his archives today, I found one which truly needs no words:

Won’t you please check out his collection at This is Historic Times, so he doesn’t kill me for reblogging his cartoon?

Nate Silver, statistical genius at fivethirtyeight.com who correctly called nearly every last step of the 2008 election, has created this map of probable timelines for individual states legalizing gay marriage.
[via Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic]

This appears to mean that, by 2024, the Colbert Coalition will realize its worst fears.
“If all 50 states approve gay [...]

It seems that lately, any time the president or first lady of the United States touches anyone, the media has some kind of creepy seizure.
First, there was Michelle Obama touching the Queen!!  Oh dear heavens!
Then there was President Obama’s “servile, scraping” handshake/bow with the Saudi King.
If you’re sympathetic to Newt Gingrich, you were no doubt [...]

Finding themselves bereft of any new ideas or politically-savvy leadership, the conservative movement is now attempting to undermine President Obama’s post-partisan vision by reviving the culture wars.  After the recent passage of anti-gay marriage legislation in California with proposition 8, the “traditional marriage” crowd seems emboldened.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is currently running this [...]

In what has to be a first in American legal history, a Maryland court this week accepted a  stipulation as part of a plea agreement that charges against Ria Ramkissoon for the starvation of her son would be dropped once he was resurrected.
Ramkissoon is a member of a religious group, called 1 Mind Ministries, that [...]

Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” has been seeing a big resurgence in popularity in the last 18 months, surpassing even Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” on Amazon.com’s sales rank.
Initial increases in sales coincided with central banks slashing interest rates, and the Bank of England’s bailout of Northern Rock in September of 2007.  The [...]