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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most of You Are Literally Morons*
Posted in Bloggin, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on July 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An observation: I was startled to notice how often I qualify factual statements with the word “literally” (see my previous post). I don’t use it the mindless way many people do (my recent favorite: a co-worker who arrived at the office complaining about being delayed by a subway slowdown that “literally took forever!” – but [...]
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 [...]
Ben Stein: Former Hack, now Class-War Misogynist Hack
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on May 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Holy shit. The ludicrous Ben Stein goes completely off the rails with this loathsome commentary on the IMF rape case. Stein is a jackass of the first water, and given to weird conspiracy theories (global warming, evolution theory, and the welfare state are all secret movements designed to undermine freedom), but he likes to position [...]
Johnny Tremain Mnemonic
Posted in Culture, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on May 4, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Matt Yglesias has a post up of a bunch of kids on Twitter asking “Who’s Osama bin Laden?” Hard to know if they’re all serious, but at any rate, one of the commenters asks the question “”what’s the earliest national/international huge deal you can remember?”. That’s a good question, if a harsh one: it both [...]
Our Rights Rest in the Hands of an Scatology- & Animal-Porn Director – Which is a Lucky Thing
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Legal Issues, Media, News & Current Events, Religion, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on April 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Startlingly clear-headed, absolutely right-on interview at Salon with Ira Isaacs, the defendant in a long-running censorship trial, about the absurdity of the obscenity doctrine and the stupidity of the government’s prosecution. Trigger Warning: censorship
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