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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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Children flinging poo to get attention: dipshit College Republicans (there is no other kind) at UC Berkeley have been loudly touting their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” – a racist provocation that has been standard fare for campus right-wing groups for 10 years or more. The gag is simple: they offer cupcakes for sale with prices [...]

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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 [...]

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Paul Krugman has a good column up, noting that this year’s crop of GOP candidates is even crazier than usual – all of them, with the exception of doomed atavistic sane Republican John Huntsman, are creationist, anti-choice, and climate-change denialists. All of them, that is, make medical and scientific decisions on the basis of religion, [...]

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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 [...]

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It hardly needs to be pointed out, but here’s yet more proof that the budget and debt debate is, for conservatives, nothing but political grandstanding to score points. The economic fate of the nation is nothing to them but a tool for the betterment of the Republican party. Here’s William Kristol – the “serious” conservative [...]

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Thomas Friedman goes full-stupid again in today’s column. He starts by pointing out, rightly, that the Republican party is captive to idiotic extremists and has abandoned any notion of responsible exercise of power: DID I mention that I’ve signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political [...]

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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 [...]

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OK, so Derek Jeter got his 3,000th hit the other day, with a sweet home run that just made it all the better. A fan caught the ball and donated it back to Jeter, though many people speculated it could have been auctioned for as much as a quarter-million dollars. In return, the Yankees gave [...]

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Stephen Marche has a lovely thing in Esquire, so heartfelt and so crazed it’s a work of art: How Can We Not Love Obama? can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or [...]

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