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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Want Small Government? Eat Shit (Literally)
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Health, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Libertarian Problem Solving, Politics, Technology, Uncategorized on July 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been reading an interesting book lately: On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work, by Scott Huler. It’s an extensive examination of every aspect of urban infrastructure in an ordinary US metropolitan area – where the water comes from, how it’s treated, how the [...]
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 [...]
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
Medical Vengeance: Interminable Detention for Mental Patients
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Health, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Patti Davis – daughter of Ronald Reagan – has an opinion article in Time Magazine today, arguing against the release of John Hinckley from the psychiatric hospital where he was confined after attempting to assassinate Reagan 30 years ago this week, in the throes of a psychiatric obsession that led him to seek fame through [...]
Finally: Sexual Abuse of Women Officially Condemned
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on February 16, 2011 | 15 Comments »
There’s a lot of discussion on the Web today about the horrifying story from Egypt involving CBS reporter Lara Logan, who was apparently sexually assaulted by a crowd of men in Tahrir Square in Cairo while covering the events there. That by itself is saddening enough, but as Echidne of the Snakes notes, the story [...]
Chickens Come Home to Roost
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Libertarian Problem Solving, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Smackdown!, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on January 10, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Twenty shot including a US Congressmember; six dead including a federal judge; nutcase in custody. Shocking but in many ways sadly familiar. And the search for explanations becomes again sadly necessary. In this case, a clear pathway to tragedy may not be apparent, but the general climate that made this possible or inevitable is too [...]
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