Ken Schram from KOMO gave my name to a producer from Bill O'Reilly's show who was looking for someone to come on tonight and defend the sign put up by atheists near the nativity scene in the state capitol. The producer added that O'Reilly wanted to "broaden the discussion out to include observations about Washington being a very liberal state." Uh-huh. I declined and when the producer asked if I could suggest someone who might want to come on, I gave him your name Goldy.

O'Reilly shredded me when he had me on his show about my book, Skipping Toward Gomorrah, back in 2002. But that's not the reason I declined. I'd never watched the O'Reilly Factor before I went on, and I had no idea what I was in for. I have some idea now. And while game and braced for the occasional cable news shout fest—thanks in large part to that 2002 shredding—I'm not feeling it today. I also turned down an invite to come back on CNN this week for another go-round with a professional Christian hater.

I'm taking December off from cable news shout fests—'tis the season, peace on earth, good will toward men, and like that.

UPDATE: I will be on Michael Medved's radio show today to talk about gay people adopting children. Medved's producer tells me that Medved "comes down in the middle" on this issue. I'm don't see a "middle" to come down in with this issue. Either gay people can adopt or they can't. How do you split the difference? Gay people can only adopt half a child? Like a time-share condo? I'll find out today at 2 PM.