The Washington state chapter of the Christian Coalition has come out in opposition to a proposed anti-bullying policy because it might–gasp–protect gay teenagers or children from being viciously harassed by classmates. God forbid. [Advocate.com]

The House International Relations Committee has approved a Democratic measure to amend the State Department authorization bill for 2002 which will overturn Bush’s re-imposition of the global gag rule. Thank God for Congressional Democrats finally getting something done against Bush’s Napoleonic Hundred Days.

The beautiful, but evil, Arianna Huffington has continued her tilt away from nouveau conservative pundit and towards the decidedly awesome with her column blasting the Bush administration’s vacuous attempts to appear environmental around Earth Day [Salon.com]. I’m remembering Pappy Bush’s declaration in the early 1990s that he would be the environmental President (which still makes me laugh today).