Kobe Bryant on defense. During a heated game with the San Antonio Spurs, the LA Lakers superstar was caught on camera mouthing a couple of offensive F words toward the ref who had just slammed him with a technical foul.  GLAAD quickly went on offense and NBA Commissioner fined him $100,000. Bryant is appealing the…

Donald Trump talks about Koran’s “negative vibe.” Of course, he’s apparently running for president so he may just be trying to quash those “Donald Trump is secretly Muslim” rumors. Meanwhile… Mitt Romney has a suggestion for Trump: Lay off the “birther” issue. He says even if (for sake of argument) President Obama was born in…

Bill Maher’s politically-incorrect assessment of Islam. The Real Time host (who’s no fan of religion in general) says “There is one religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them.” He also laments that there aren’t more moderate Muslims standing up to the crazy killers amongst them. POINT 1: There’s something to…

My recent assertion that the Fox TV show Glee is not about tolerance brought some reader response, some in basic agreement, some in respectful disagreement, some in somewhat less-respectful disagreement. Here a sampling, along with my responses: Jeff wrote: I totally dis-agree with your comments. Glee doesn’t pull any punches and neither did Nip Tuck!…

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