Christian Civic League of Maine

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Doom predictions

Gays into the crystal ball
Plenty of seemingly unemployable people manage to make decent livings even though they're consistently wrong.
By AL DIAMON | September 30, 2009

Politics and other mistakes
The state of Maine doesn’t give away money. Except for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Economic Development, and the state treasurer.
By AL DIAMON | September 25, 2008

On Friday, bigotry won’t be tolerated

Dyke March
When members of Maine’s GLBT community — specifically, lesbians and those who love them — take to the streets on Friday, June 20, it’ll be with pride, plus a little defiance.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 18, 2008

Study this

Politics and other mistakes
Politics and other mistakes
By AL DIAMON | May 21, 2008

Life in cartoon motion

Politics and ohter mistakes
Welcome to the Public Broadcasting System’s new show, What Were You Thinking, You Idiot?
By AL DIAMON | January 30, 2008

Extreme behavior

Politics and other mistakes
If you wanted to make the Maine Legislature look good, you’d compare it to the Portland School Committee.
By AL DIAMON | October 31, 2007

Maine’s most massive screw-ups in 2006

Stuff that just should never have happened
2006, we’re going to miss you.
By JEFF INGLIS AND SARA DONNELLY | December 20, 2006

King of the freaks

Politics and other mistakes
I’d like to honor the best of the recently deceased political campaigns. Unfortunately, “best” turned out to be in short supply this year, but there was a surplus of worst. And I have just the prize for that.
By AL DIAMON | November 08, 2006

Honky tonk blues

Politics and other mistakes
Where can I find a good bar?
By AL DIAMON | August 23, 2006

Fallout from the war

Talking Politics
I was just reading this distinguished political dissertation in which the Christian Civic League of Maine was described as “a mixture of monstrous chaos and genetic disaster, a phantasmagoric potpourri of crossbred animals, nomadic minerals, virtuous vegetables, aggravating extraterrestrials, and braggart beasts.”
By AL DIAMON | July 12, 2006

At war with the mystics

Politics and other mistakes
To disguise the fact I was too lazy to do any real work this week, I had to fill this space with a list of all the stupid things the Christian Civic League of Maine did lately.
By AL DIAMON | April 26, 2006

A promise you can’t keep

Politics and other mistakes
Republican state senator Chandler Woodcock of Farmington has made a remarkable promise. Or a desperate one.
By AL DIAMON | April 05, 2006