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 May Think It’s Cool…
Posted in Humor, I do too have a life on July 28, 2011 | Comments Off
…but Spock is not impressed. via the Internet’s own Wil Wheaton.
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 [...]
Trend-Setter
Posted in Culture, General, Humor, I do too have a life on June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
OK, not that I really care, but, honestly, I just don’t get any of this. As you may recall, the vaunted fashion weirdo John Galliano was video-cammed in a French restaurant a few months ago, drunk off his ass, starting a nasty anti-Semitic argument with some other patrons, declaring “I love Hitler” and using a [...]
Scientifically Documented! KTK is More Right Than Almost Everyone!
Posted in Flame Bait, General, Humor, I do too have a life on June 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So my test results came back. This is from a pseudo-scientific survey attached to a site promoting the new book Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us, by Palca & Lichtman. The test tells you how annoying you are. Which of course just means how much other people wish they could be like you. Your [...]
Ha! HuffPo’s Paywall Out of the New York Times
Posted in General, Humor, Media, News & Current Events, Satire on April 1, 2011 | Comments Off
Arianna Huffington has an hilarious piece at HuffPo today, announcing their new paid-subscription policy, modeled on the paywall established by the New York Times and applicable only to employees of the New York Times! Last week, we rolled out digital subscriptions to our readers in Winnipeg, Canada, which enabled us to fine-tune the customer experience. [...]
America’s Oldest Civil War Veteran Still Going Strong
Posted in General, Humor, News & Current Events, Politics on February 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Interesting story today about a man who’d lived a remarkable and admirable life: Frank Buckles lied about his age to get into the Army at 16, at the outbreak of WWI. He drove ambulances in the war, then served as a POW guard. After the war he took a job traveling to see the world, [...]
6 Good Reasons for Democracy
Posted in Culture, General, Humor on February 14, 2011 | Comments Off
200 years of inbreeding . . . what could go wrong?
Feelin’ Fly — Good Execution of Awful
Posted in Humor, NFL, Sports on January 25, 2011 | Comments Off
Yeah, it’s awful, but so’s the original they’re riffing off of: Don’t get it? See the original.
Larry Wilmore on Huck Finn
Posted in Culture, Humor, Race on January 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Apropos of posts by KTK and Kevin, The Daily Show has its own take, which is very much worth watching.
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