Tuesday’s Links: War Games

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* A compromise for Justice Scalia.

* Unless you’re playing cards, war isn’t a game.

* Put this in your baby scrapbook, space nerds!

* Think your privacy is violated now? Just you wait.

* Invest in this U.S. export and you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.

* Re-enacting a Sex Pistols interview as Amish folk is exactly as hilarious as it sounds.

* Sure, you see them on the internet all the time, but what is the science behind them?

5 Great Same-Sex Marriage Moments in Comedy

Patton Oswalt took on same-sex marriage long before the Supreme Court ever did.

Click through for same-sex marriage hilarity from Garfunkel & Oates, Eugene Mirman and more.

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It’s a big week at the Supreme Court, as the justices hear arguments about whether gays should be allowed to ruin marriage for the rest of us (by booking all the good wedding caterers) or if California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, should be allowed to stand.
The anti-gay Family Research Council isn’t taking any chances. They’ve unveiled a new strategy just in time for Tuesday’s argument: pray that God turn pro-equality lawyers into blathering idiots. Here’s the recommended text for the FRC’s “prayer teams:”

May those arguing on behalf of same-sex “marriage” present their arguments in an inept, confusing and unconvincing way. May they fail to gain traction in the minds of the Justices. May the right of Californians to amend their state constitution to protect marriage be confirmed by the Court, and may the Defense of Marriage Act be ruled constitutional (Lev 20:all; 1 Sam 2:8-10; 2 Chr 14:11; 20:12-27; Pr 22:28; 24:21; Is 8:18-20; Dan 7:25-27; 2 Cor 2:5)

This is so frustrating. Been looking at my copy of the U.S. Constitution for hours and still can’t find any of those sections they footnoted.
Photo by Max Whittaker/Getty Images News/Getty Images

It’s a big week at the Supreme Court, as the justices hear arguments about whether gays should be allowed to ruin marriage for the rest of us (by booking all the good wedding caterers) or if California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, should be allowed to stand.

The anti-gay Family Research Council isn’t taking any chances. They’ve unveiled a new strategy just in time for Tuesday’s argument: pray that God turn pro-equality lawyers into blathering idiots. Here’s the recommended text for the FRC’s “prayer teams:”

May those arguing on behalf of same-sex “marriage” present their arguments in an inept, confusing and unconvincing way. May they fail to gain traction in the minds of the Justices. May the right of Californians to amend their state constitution to protect marriage be confirmed by the Court, and may the Defense of Marriage Act be ruled constitutional (Lev 20:all; 1 Sam 2:8-10; 2 Chr 14:11; 20:12-27; Pr 22:28; 24:21; Is 8:18-20; Dan 7:25-27; 2 Cor 2:5)

This is so frustrating. Been looking at my copy of the U.S. Constitution for hours and still can’t find any of those sections they footnoted.

Photo by Max Whittaker/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Meet Packy, the little health care law that could.
It’s another Indecision storybook, right this way.

Meet Packy, the little health care law that could.

It’s another Indecision storybook, right this way.