(Photograph courtesy of Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.) As of this writing, the Oscars still do not have a host, but Hart is campaigning to get the job back. His first step was to sit down with Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime talk show for an interview. Appearing with one of the most ...read more

Rick Santorum doesn’t accept evolution or human-caused climate change, and he’s an anti-gay bigot. So why does CNN pay him of all people to give opinions? Lest it be viewed as the “Clinton News Network,” CNN has array of conservative pundits who presently have one job: to defend ...read more

My late colleague Chez Pazienza wrote about liberal fury directed at Maher in the last essay he ever published. He referred to it as a "circular firing squad" that saw the left cannibalizing itself over outrage directed at the wrong person. Just over a year late, here we are ...read more

Alleged pedophile Roy Moore is still refusing to concede the Alabama Senate election to Doug Jones. "In this race, we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots," Moore told his followers in a defiant video posted to YouTube. "This has been a ...read more

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Twitter given it seems to encourage vapid shouting matches between outsized egos trying to insult each other with as few words as possible. But I do use the medium and appreciate those who have managed to refine Twitter takedowns to an art form. ...read more

Republican House of Representative Steve Scalise was a disgusting racist prior to being shot on a baseball field in an incident that nearly claimed his life. His political career up until that point has been a predictable brand of right-wing conservatism that aimed to inflict as ...read more

Donald Trump is the cancer that keeps on spreading. He has normalized hate and bigotry to the point that we now have white supremacists sending out robocalls to accuse Trump's opponent of being a "closet homosexual": A white-nationalist supporter of Donald Trump has launched a ...read more

You have to give it to Republicans -- literally any opportunity to attack the most vulnerable people in society, and they'll take it.  In response to the Dallas police shooting, presidential flop and Donald Trump supporter Dr. Ben Carson thought it provided a unique time to do ...read more

Yahoo News reported yesterday that Republicans in Utah have adopted an amendment to their draft platform that called pornography “a public health crisis”, taking their fears of human sexuality even further: Republican delegates unanimously adopted an amendment to their draft ...read more

The Westboro Baptist Church appears to be switching tactics in their lifelong mission to stop gayness in America and has finally found the true perpetrator of all things homosexual: the National Weather Service: In case you are wondering how homosexuality and the National ...read more

Behold Murica, this is what freedom looks like: What could be more Christian than discriminating against gays, breaking the law and spending time in prison? Kim Davies is a true American/Christian hero! And those tears - a martyr too! Kim Davies is just like Jesus. Except ...read more

A shocking video recently shot by Russian YouTube prank artists ChebuRussiaTV reveals what it really means to be gay in Russia. Two of the pranksters secretly filmed themselves walking hand-in-hand through Moscow, while their cameraman walked ahead filming them secretly. What ...read more

(Pic: Pastor David Berzins, wearer of mixed fabrics and hater of gays) Apparently, when Jesus stated that "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," he actually meant that you should stone people to death if you don't agree with their lifestyle. Or so said Pastor Steven ...read more

It's day 290 in the ongoing "Duck Dynasty: America's IQ Held Hostage" saga. You'll remember that just last week bearded, duck-calling Godfather Phil Robertson once again saw fit to grace us with his special brand of scripture-based backwater wisdom -- this time on the subject ...read more

We can safely call it "The Summit of Stupid." To celebrate the Labor Day weekend, the Duck Dynasty cast traveled to Alaska for a very special cook-out with Sarah Palin and her family. Naturally, when such a gathering of unrivaled brain-power occurs, it only makes sense to ...read more

Former Montana Governor and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Brian Schweitzer has clearly been wearing his trademark bolo tie a little too tightly. In a profile in the National Journal, Schweitzer said the following about Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA): “If you were ...read more

Scott Esk, a tea party Republican, is running for the Oklahoma state House. In addition to fancying himself a libertarian, a position that's all about preserving and exercising unfettered individual liberty, Esk also believes gay people should be stoned to death, per Leviticus ...read more

Oliver Green is a modern life burnout/angeraholic living in Bali, Indonesia and writing about life instead of making things worse by having one. [WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART/SALON READERS] F A G S God hates fags. Fact. It’s written in that book of love and acceptance ...read more

There's a paleoconservative extremist on the radio who's very likely the dictionary definition of a wingnut. His name is Bryan Fischer, a director for issues analysis the American Family Association (yes, "analysis" is part of his job title), and he's gaining quite a bit of ...read more

A&E has some serious nerve putting Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson on "indefinite suspension" following a series of unbelievably homophobic comments he made during a newly published GQ interview. I don't say this because I think what Robertson said was acceptable or ...read more

I've always been on the fence when it comes to the paparazzi. On the one hand, if you're famous enough to where people want desperately to take your picture, shut the fuck up and console yourself with the giant pile of money you very likely sleep on every night. On the other ...read more

“Just as nuclear weapons are banned so that planet Earth does not perish, so we must ban technologies that destroy… the natural ways to give birth,”  - - Russian lawmaker and anti gay activist Elena Mizulina Elena Mizulina, author of the 'Gay Propaganda' bill that punishes ...read more

When I tell you that hack celebrity chef and douchebag Rosetta Stone Guy Fieri (née: just plain old Guy Ferry) got into a very public fight with his hairdresser, the correct response is -- well, yeah, that makes sense. But when you actually see that fight -- in which ...read more

In response to his daughter disowning her son for being gay, an anonymous Grandfather disowned his daughter in a hand written letter for being "hurtful, narrow-minded and backward". While the whole debacle is kind of sad, the letter, published on the Facebook page of the pro gay ...read more

American politicians listen up: if you want to know how to deal with specious homophobic religious arguments, look to your Australian cousins for some advice. During a recent Q & A session on ABC News, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was asked by Pastor Matt Prater how he ...read more

The Supreme Court may or may not be ready to endorse same sex marriage but the country is.  This week, Senator Lisa Murkowski joined fellow GOP Senators Mark Kirk and Rob Portman and expressed her support for same sex marriage.  I have organized a comedy fundraiser to benefit ...read more

Dr. Ben Carson, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins was penciled in to deliver the commencement speech at the Hopkins School of Medicine last month. After going on Fox News and equating pedophilia and bestiality with homosexuality, students at the university ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Earlier this month, I wrote an article in which I suggested that liberals stop hectoring people of faith and simply focus on religious groups and leaders who attempt to undermine or replace secular law with biblical dogma. But wow, they really, really make it ...read more