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 »
Somebody Go Coddle the Children – They’re Making Noise Again
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Education, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on September 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
. . . 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 [...]
Who Counts, to the Washington Post
Posted in Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized on September 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Okay, so I commented once previously on the Washington Post‘s editorial standards, vis a’ vis whiney upper-class white guys and their entitlement to attention. The occasion was that a guy in one of the most affluent sections of Washington, DC (in the Northwest quadrant) got his tires slashed. The Post did 20 column inches on [...]
The Wingnut Looking-Glass
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on August 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
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, [...]
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 [...]
Perry vs. Obama
Posted in General, News & Current Events, Politics on August 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So it’s going to be Perry. I haven’t been paying real attention to the Republican primary run-up, because (a) it’s repulsive, and (b) whatever happens, happens – somebody will be the candidate, and then the real race begins. I see primaries as being largely just opportunities for people to make mistakes that can be used [...]
Conservatism in a Wingnutshell
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Surrender to the Center . . . Online
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics on July 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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