Frequently on a Sunday

One of the points Fred Clark frequently makes on the Slacktivist blog is that it’s easy to go too far left to be acceptable to the evangelical community (like World Vision taking flak because it said it would be open to gay employees). Case in point, conservative evangelicals Mat Staver and Matt Barber proclaiming Michelle Obama is evil because she visited a health center (not an abortion clinic) to encourage people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act. Because OMG abortion (which isn’t covered by the ACA and according to Clark isn’t offered at the center). Hitler! Dismembering babies! Obamacare is evil! And if Ms. Obama likes it, she’s evil! Despite which, they’re still considered respectable evangelicals.
Nor is anyone drumming out Franklin Graham, who equates gays adopting children with gays sexually molesting children (I could have sworn there was something in the Bible about bearing false witness against your neighbor. But obviously that’s not as important as Fighting Evil Gays).
•Consumerist, which blogs frequently about Comcast’s plans to merge with Time-Warner, says Comcast’s supposed efforts to provide Internet to the poor are a sham. Another post rips into a New York Times piece claiming the merger would be wonderful for everyone. Meanwhile, Verizon insists there’s no need to mandate net neutrality because competition will force Internet companies to provide it (as Consumerist has repeatedly pointed out, the range of competition in most areas is one company for broadband, period).
•Does having more credit/debit cards and less cash reduce crime?
•Right-wing pundit Jonah Goldberg claims the Koch Brothers (notorious billionaire backers of a variety of right-wing causes) obviously aren’t dabbling in politics because they’re so rich, they don’t need more money. But that hasn’t stopped other billionaires.
•Slashing taxes hasn’t helped Kansas’ economy, but it has cut lots of services.
•Federal judges are apparently very picky about how women attorneys dress. More here.
•The British prison system has banned prisoners from receiving books.
•Occasionally a bank executive does get busted for bad/stupid behavior.
•Hullabaloo looks at all the religious views on the right (God opposes the minimum wage! Jesus was anti-union!) that could be put into practice if the Hobby Lobby case allows corporations to exercise “sincere religious belief.”
•Up to 36 percent of Internet ad views may be by bots.