I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
. . . You Won’t Go Back
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Education, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Marriage Equality, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Religion, Science on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The onward march of progress: Gallup reports today that overall US public approval of interracial marriage stands at an all-time high of 85% – up from 4% barely 50 years ago. What’s really striking is the almost linear trendline: Predictably, it slows during Republican administrations, and jumped dramatically during the Clinton years, but overall that’s [...]
Christianity in Action: Asshole Pastor Wants to Register Atheists Like Sex Offenders
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Flame Bait, General, Politics, Religion, Things That Suck on August 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Running true to a very tedious and familiar form, some nutcase makes waves to prove how Christian he is by proving how crazy he is: Brothers and Sisters , I have been seriously considering forming a ( Christian ) grassroots type of organization to be named “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” or something similar [...]
Special Rights for Pastafarians
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, News & Current Events, Religion, Satire on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Bowing to religious extremists who demand special exemptions from ordinary rules – such as providing clear identification photos on drivers’ licenses – Austria allows religious believers, only, the right to wear headcoverings in their ID photos. An Austrian Pastafarian has demanded that he be allowed to take his ID photo wearing headgear appropriate to his [...]
The Media We Deserve
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Religion, Science, Things That Suck on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Raw Story posted the following headline, lede, and second graf today: Texas police find children’s dismembered bodies in mass grave HOUSTON, Texas — Texas police, acting on a tip-off, Tuesday found a mass grave containing “a lot of bodies,” including the corpses of children, US media reported. UPDATE: Texas officials say no bodies found [...]
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, Marriage Equality, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy, Religion on March 22, 2011 | Comments Off
Utterly heart-breaking story in the NY Times today about the tragic plight of conservative Protestant pastors who spent their whole lives training to dispense the dogma of a patriarchal, sex-role-obsessed religion, and then find they can’t get jobs because they don’t conform to the dogma of their own patriarchal, sex-role-obsessed religion. This is a terrible [...]
Beware the Invasion of Reactionary Religious Zealots!
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Food & Cooking, Gender Issues, Holiday, Media, News & Current Events, Parody, Politics, Religion, Sour Grapes/Pouting/Whining, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
GatewayPundit breathlessly alerts us to the dangers of cranky and intolerant religious ranting: certain believers insist that those who do not profess their particular creed are subject to STDs, debt, rape, teenage pregnancies, abortion, raves, claiming God has a son, blasphemy, exploitation, promiscuity, night clubs, crime, paedophilia, paganism, domestic violence, homelessness, violence, vandalism, alcohol, drugs. [...]
Is it Wrong to Use the Right’s Offensive Tactics Against Them? Hypocrisy and Political Debate
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Libertarian Problem Solving, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on October 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about an ad that Democrat Jack Conway has been running against Libertarian loony Rand Paul in the Kentucky Senate race. The ad notes that Paul engaged in a lot of weird behavior while a member of a kind of Animal House club at his Baptist college, including humorous [...]
The Political is not Always the Personal
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Education, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Religion, Things That Suck on September 24, 2010 | 16 Comments »
In which I rise again to defend the validity of procedural fairness against those who find it convenient to use the levers of power to exercise their personal grievances, and are endorsed in so doing by the general mass that, too often, can think of no other use for power. And in thus expect my [...]
First You Say N*gger, N*gger. Then You Say Muslim, Muslim
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Politics on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The GOP built its power on the Southern Strategy. After the Democrats finally, a hundred year too late, did the right thing and removed the racists from their party, the GOP welcomed them with open arms. For the next forty years, the GOP used the power of racism to leverage themselves in power. That strategy [...]
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