"I'd offer you some, but they mine."

Thanks for Listening.

2011-03-10T13:22:00.003-06:00

For Clyde Squid

2011-03-05T16:37:00.005-06:00

Frank Gehry® Morph cuff links
at Tiffany & Co.

"I'm way more Kirk and way less Spock"

2011-02-24T14:08:00.001-06:00

String Theory by Jonathan Mann.

Better living through (bio)chemistry

2011-02-19T08:29:00.003-06:00

Evolutionary Psychiatry

Free the Animal

Gary Taubes

Gnolls.org

Mark's Daily Apple

The Paleolithic Diet Nutrition Page

PaleoHacks

PāNu

Robb Wolf

Herding Cats In Alabama

2011-02-17T15:13:00.003-06:00

I'm all for it: Secular Coalition of Alabama.

And remember, while one may have difficulty herding atheist cats, just point the pride to a wounded gazelle and they will all leap in unison. And our fair state is lousy with wounded gazelles.

Mr. Deity Meets Allah In The Dark Matter Showroom

2011-02-17T15:10:00.002-06:00

The sequel to the last episode features lots of blasphemy, inter-faith squabbling, and Star Wars puns.

Best...Zombie...Trailer...Ever!

2011-02-17T14:42:00.000-06:00

Atheists don't have no songs.

2011-02-17T11:38:00.001-06:00

Steve Martin. I love that guy.

Atheists Now Have A Hymn

2011-02-16T15:28:00.001-06:00

I take it this song will be on Frank Turner's new album coming out in the summer.

Mr. Deity Comes Up With A Way To Get Some Extra Bang

2011-02-16T10:58:00.002-06:00

Yeah Arcade Fire!

2011-02-14T06:40:00.007-06:00

They won a Grammy! Who knew they still gave those things out to talent?

My New Favorite Podcast Ever For Today

2011-02-10T22:32:00.004-06:00

I am now sickeningly addicted to the HPPodcraft, the HP Lovecraft literary podcast. It's free on iTunes, and I emphatically plea to any who have yet to concede their will to the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep: Hark, lest your clean, deluded mind be driven to unspeakable madness as you suffer to be eaten last!

Mid-Century X-Files

2011-02-10T22:04:00.007-06:00

The XCOM reboot game is by the same creators of Bioshock and Bioshock 2. And while those 2 brilliant games combined great (and disturbing) stories, memorable characters, salty language, and vile gore with glorious art deco, it looks like this time they are adding oily aliens and replacing the art deco with mid-century modernism and atomic age design. I can't wait.

Posted without comment

2011-02-07T20:53:00.002-06:00

My favorite Egyptian blogger

2011-02-03T09:36:00.004-06:00

Al Jazeera English has just reported that Sandmonkey has been arrested, but "escaped". His Blog has been suspended. I finally got on the Twit just to follow him.

Sandmonkey

Egypt

Micro-celebrity, Blogger, activist, New Media douchebag, Pain in the ass!
http://www.sandmonkey.org

With cool houses.

2011-01-18T21:39:00.004-06:00

Unhappy Hipsters.

After watching the Miley Cyrus bong scandal on television, he dove straight into his next get-rich-quick scheme: a backyard salvia farm.

Pee-wee's Back!

2011-01-16T09:42:00.000-06:00

It really was something different and special.

2011-01-12T10:49:00.008-06:00

Spot on.

The Onion Weighs In

2011-01-12T10:45:00.002-06:00

Thank You, Dick Winters

2011-01-10T12:50:00.003-06:00

Major Winters died Jan 2, but his memory and legacy will be cherished for generations.

Kneel Before Neil!

2011-01-07T11:09:00.005-06:00

After putting his unique, subversive spin on a debate between Bill O'Reilly and the president of the American Atheists (about the "scams" sign in Huntsville), Stephen Colbert is graced by a hilarious appearance by show favorite Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Bill O'Reilly Proves God's Existence - Neil deGrasse Tyson

www.colbertnation.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog</a>

March to Keep Fear Alive

While I do like to upset theists, I would prefer to do so positively. I much prefer the signs that have said, "Millions of Americans are good without gods." The Huntsville sign seems too reactionary to be anything other than counter-productive, unless pissed-off Christians is your desired product. But I have noticed that Christians don't seem to have much to say about the other religions being included (namely Islam), a solipsistic silence that speaks volumes.

Kick ass

2011-01-05T06:50:00.003-06:00

Real-Life Superhero Walks Streets, Fighting Crime

Police alerted to 'superheroes' patrolling Seattle

Real Life Superhero Manual

On Patrol With Phoenix Jones: Guardian of Seattle

Clone Wars Returns Friday

2011-01-03T11:55:00.003-06:00

And it looks very, very bizarre.

Why Didn't I Know About This?

2011-01-03T11:35:00.003-06:00

Bitter Feast, a Saw meets Top Chef horror movie with Mario Batali.

Neat Atheist Apps!

2011-01-03T11:09:00.003-06:00

Bomdigular Apps

Because They Work, Bitches.

2011-01-03T08:34:00.001-06:00

The "Indelible Stamp Of Its Lowly Origin"

2011-01-01T11:12:00.002-06:00

What we've lost

2010-12-28T09:52:00.004-06:00

The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead
(from the Cleveland Scene)

In November of 1974, a Browns fan and season ticket holder sent a letter to the team regarding his concern over fans throwing paper airplanes and implied the team might be sued.

The Cleveland Browns (specifically, their general counsel) sent back an absolutely epic response.

A apology, of sorts.

2010-12-22T14:09:00.001-06:00

I see your NY First Lady and raise you:

2010-12-22T10:45:00.005-06:00

a Rachel Ray Christmas CD

Finally

2010-12-22T09:41:00.002-06:00

Admiral Mullen and Secretary Gates deserve recognition, as does the "squeaky wheel gets the oil" organization Get Equal.

The Gallery Of Regrettable, Racially Insensitive Food: Sandra Lee Makes A Kwanzaa Cake

2010-12-21T09:48:00.004-06:00

Could this be more horrifying, disgusting, and yet oh-so delicious?

Case Study: Sawing Off The Branch You're Sitting On

2010-12-21T09:13:00.003-06:00

You HAVE to watch this and marvel at the 3-ring circus of oblivious stupidity required for a priest on Bizarro Foxy and Friends to reach a point he didn't mean to make.

Of course, you all know who I pray to, for all the good He does:

"I have no choice, Clyde Squid; I can't meet supplications of that magnitude!"

Improvement

2010-12-21T00:08:00.002-06:00

Pretty Mies

2010-12-09T10:01:00.002-06:00

Crown Hall, IIT

The Mies van der Rohe Society updated their website, and it's pretty.

Buying a Tiger

2010-12-05T09:47:00.001-06:00

So you can see it whenever you want:

Atheists Don't Have No Songs

2010-11-23T07:05:00.005-06:00

What a genius.

Hate Email, With Richard Dawkins

2010-11-21T16:02:00.002-06:00

Atheists are shrill, mean-spirited bullies whose heart is filled with nothing but hate. Or so we're told by theists whose only mastered skills are self-delusion and projection.

My New Favorite New Artist Ever For Right Now

2010-11-17T22:31:00.003-06:00

Beach House

Jon Klassen

Adventures of Ship

Atheist Cat

2010-11-10T06:04:00.002-06:00

FCKH8

2010-10-24T11:13:00.001-05:00

It's about time:

Duh!

2010-10-23T23:45:00.001-05:00

At least they're becoming self-aware:

Nearly three-quarters of Americans (72 percent) say religious messages about homosexuality contribute to "negative views" of gays and lesbians, and nearly two-thirds (65 percent) see a connection to higher rates of suicide among gay youths.

I Think We're Going To Like This A Lot

2010-10-18T22:03:00.003-05:00

IO9 reviews the first two episodes of AMC's The Walking Dead without spoilers. Short version: it's bloody, bloody awesome. And I loved Darabont's last film, also bloody awesome: The Mist.

It Breaks Your Heart

2010-10-14T22:39:00.000-05:00

Maybe "The Archimedes" Would Have Been A Better Name

2010-10-09T05:19:00.011-05:00

A new hotel at the City Center complex in Las Vegas has a problem: it's sexy incurvation is shooting out solar death rays!

So far, this fully armed and operation battle-resort is not targeting what's really important: the nearby stunning, gravity-defying Veer Towers by Helmut Jahn.

As great as they are, I still prefer Jahn's 600 North Fairbanks residential building in Chicago, which also seems to give the middle finger to Newton.

Sometimes, humans are cool.

Prospera?

2010-10-06T17:46:00.000-05:00

Must...see...

It Keeps Getting Better And Better

2010-10-01T00:05:00.004-05:00

Bishop Eddie Long is the gift that keeps on giving:

The ex-wife of the Atlanta mega-church pastor accused of sex abuse by four young men once claimed the exalted church leader had a "vicious and violent temper" and beat her while she was pregnant with his son.

Can this get better? Yes:

Wait, do I agree with her or am I disgusted by her too?

Richard Tillman On Real Time

2010-09-26T18:51:00.001-05:00

My Adopted Senator

2010-09-23T02:54:00.000-05:00

Religious Abuse Is Nothing New

2010-09-23T01:45:00.004-05:00

Given the new accusations regarding televangelist Bishop Eddie Long, I'm reminded that this meme is not new. Take my favorite 50's era subversive singer/song-writer, Tom Lehrer:

"That Was My Vietnam. And I Was In Vietnam."

2010-09-23T00:14:00.002-05:00

Modern Family makes me laugh until I hurt. In spite of the Emmy nominations and wins, Ed O'Neil is a fucking genius. And the second season is just as, if not more, brilliant than the first.

What Darwin Never Knew

2010-09-22T22:24:00.007-05:00

NOVA's What Darwin Never Knew should be shown in every elementary classroom across this country. I put it on to casually view what I already knew; instead, I got sucked in and watched it from middle to end.

Sean B. Carroll is, in my opinion, one of the greatest science educators of our time. His books, and his explanations in this documentary, are simple and sublime.

I think I'm going to have to buy this one.

The religious always get evolution wrong: evolutionary theory explains the changes in biodiversity we observe in the past through the present. Every new post-Darwinian scientific discovery--from the rediscovery of Mendelian genetics, to the discovery of DNA as the molecule of inheritance, to the modern understanding of developmental biology--had every chance of overturning Darwin's theory. Instead, each of those monumental scientific breakthroughs modified his theory to make it more accurate.

Evolution is a fact; the theory of evolution is, to date, incontrovertible. Gods are, to date, controvertible.

Ruling From The Living Tomb

2010-09-21T21:59:00.004-05:00

Republicans stopped the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Outdated mores and bigotry are, once again, upheld and preserved by dated, ossified politicians. My generation is being ruled from the living tomb, just like Jefferson warned...

Pesky Archives Beat Infallible Pope

2010-09-21T21:53:00.003-05:00

For someone with a direct psychic line to a being who knows everything, the pope sure does miss a lot. For instance, Captain Beard In The Sky didn't tell him that historians have archives with things like this:

Here's the translation:

Why is a Catholic obliged to vote for the parliamentary list of Adolf Hitler? Because in the National Socialist state intrinsically and through the Reichskonkordat

1. the Faith is protected,

2. peace with the Church is assured,

3. public morality is preserved,

4. Sunday is hallowed,

5. Catholic schools are maintained,

6. the Catholic conscience is no longer burdened,

7. a Catholic has equal rights before the law and in the life of the nation,

8. Catholic organisations and associations, insofar as they exclusively serve religious, charitable and cultural purposes, can operate freely.

Therefore a Catholic is obliged on 12 November [1933] to vote thus:

Referendum: yes

Parliamentary election: Adolf Hitler

I'll expect my apology in a century, when there are 5 Catholics left.

Being Mean To Children Is Funny

2010-09-21T19:19:00.000-05:00

"Joseph Ratzinger Is An Enemy Of Humanity."

2010-09-19T12:56:00.005-05:00

The horrid, reprobate little cur who heads the world's sickest international crime syndicate visited the UK last week. And the first thing he did was to blame atheists for all of the horrible things Nazi Catholics and Lutherans did.

No one need take such insolent, deceitful, vacuous bullshit from the likes of that wheezing octogenarian in his blood-soaked Versace mu-mu. Least of all Richard Dawkins, who gave a firebrand speech so electrifying and damning that it will make you cheer.

Crazy Obsession

2010-09-17T19:20:00.003-05:00

Andrew Shirvell is an assistant attorney general in Michigan. And he is CRAZY obsessed with the University of Michigan's student assembly president, who is gay. Watch this video; it's pretty clear what's going on here.

My New Favorite New Artist Ever For Right Now

2010-09-16T19:25:00.004-05:00

Winter Plant Composition I

Jennifer Scott McLaughlin

I gasp at every work.

The Funniest Will & Grace Moment Ever

2010-09-15T21:44:00.002-05:00

I've been recording Will & Grace to watch when I get bored. I forgot how much I hated Will and Grace (who were truly awful characters), but loved Jack and Karen. And here is the funniest Karen ever:

Great Old Spice

2010-09-15T14:50:00.000-05:00

Swamp People

2010-09-15T06:22:00.003-05:00

Love this show. Cajuns hunting alligators during the one-month season. Troy is simply awesome. Swamp People at History.com Videos

And the story of Bruce and his dog Tyler is great:

Just When You Thought She Hit Stupid Bottom...

2010-09-14T18:56:00.005-05:00

...the dope shows us her stupid underground garage.

This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies.

Sarah Palin

________________________________________________

Did I mention it's a multilevel stupid underground garage?

I tell my parents all the time there is no better gift that they could have given me than besides such an appreciation for family and for faith and patriotism, it's been an upbringing in America in this most perfect state in America - Alaska, where we are independent and we have the pioneering spirit that more of America should hopefully get to look into the state and understand and really try to emulate because it's that pioneering spirit that America needs more of.

I get more coherent sentences out of the illegal immigrants around here.

My New Favorite Picture Ever

2010-09-13T20:06:00.000-05:00

The Wicker Tree

2010-09-13T19:58:00.001-05:00

From the makers of the original (real) Wicker Man, and starring Christopher Lee:

Hey Tobermory, We Gotta Get In A Fight

2010-09-13T09:55:00.001-05:00

Nancy Grace's new show: Swift Justice.

We need these books

2010-09-10T22:04:00.003-05:00

At Reason: Heeding the Sage of Baltimore

A new edition of H.L. Mencken’s Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best

On William Jennings Bryan:
“Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.”

Still In My Top 5

2010-09-09T01:31:00.003-05:00

Jets To Brazil's Orange Rhyming Dictionary is still one of my top 5 albums ever. I just listened to it all the way through, twice. I forgot how crazy fun it is.

RIP Glen Shadix

2010-09-08T23:15:00.005-05:00

Alabama native Glen Shadix died.

Glen was put through "gay reparative therapy." It failed. And his story is horrifying:

But Glen survived, and we will miss him. Here's 2 musical tributes for Glen!

From Beetle Juice, for being the great Otho:

And from The Nightmare Before Christmas, for being Halloween Town's Mayor:

And, less famously, he was the preacher in the, "I love my dead gay son," scene in Heathers.

I love my dead gay Glen!

The Dignity Of Reason

2010-09-08T21:38:00.006-05:00

"Well, I'm dying, since you asked," Hitchens replied. "So are you, but I'm doing it faster and in more rich and fecund detail."

Christopher Hitchens, on his battle with cancer. I recommend the whole article: Hitchens--even in his poisoned, withered state--is as sharp as always.

A dignified death is hard to come by, but we must all strive for it. My sci-fi hero did:

Courtesy of Neal Boortz

2010-09-02T10:05:00.003-05:00

Adult language: NSFW

DON'T MESS WITH EPIC BEARD MAN

PZ Makes My Argument Better

2010-09-02T00:27:00.005-05:00

"I don't like the Manhattan mosque, but they've got the right — as long as I've got the right to point and laugh"

Naturally, I dislike the idea of constructing religious buildings anywhere, since they are a colossal waste of community resources, typically represent unproductive holes in the tax base, and promote stupid thinking — but guess what? Those aren't legal cause to interfere with people's right to waste their time and money. Also, if we accept the privilege of individual autonomy and personal freedom, we don't have moral cause to interfere.

I get spooked out by any religion claiming "insensitivity." It's a building, nothing more, nothing less. Let's not add to what it is until those who occupy it do so. Then, we can point and laugh, or rally and protest, or let the government raid it for terrorism.

The first amendment is hard, and insensitivities are not its standard.

Still Too Hilarious

2010-09-01T22:54:00.002-05:00

Kids in the Hall's "Death Comes To Town" is everything you missed about them.

Don't go to bonluxat.com, M. Squid

2010-08-30T15:01:00.004-05:00

Salvador Dali Leda Chair

And they don't have furniture by FLLW, Eames, Herman Miller ....

Yeah Eric Stonestreet!

2010-08-30T08:48:00.000-05:00

Religion Is Evil; And Your Shit Stinks As Bad As Theirs, So SHUT THE FUCK UP

2010-08-27T22:51:00.012-05:00

Thank you, authoritarian Christian nationalists, for compromising our national security. We now have video for al Queda' recruiting propaganda:

When I joined the protest of "Draw a Mohammad Day," I didn't do so to bully a religious class. I did so to stand up against an assertion that religious sentiments trumped free speech (and could do so with threats of violence).

The same applies to my support of the "Ground Zero Mosque;" or, as I like to call it, the "Ground Zero YMMA." I will not accept crazy, non-realist arguments ("this slaps the 9/11 victims in the face"), nor the insistence that tolerance has a radius.

The first amendment to our Constitution is hard; it's not for the weak of mind, but it protects us from them. And I am weary of Christians throwing bibles in glass houses.

Forget about Ground Zero and use your noggin to think back to the bloodiest event in American history. Was it the Confederacy of Muslims, Atheists, and Homosexuals whose bloodthirsty hordes converged on the goodly Christian Yankee Army of the Union North at Antietam and Gettysburg?

I am the first to say that Islam is a wicked religion: but they all are. And our great republic doesn't win by pretending that the arguments that work in theocracies apply here. Or by pretending that sentiments trump rights.

I am deeply disturbed by this rhetorical Jabberwocky. What do you think will happen when some Muslim Americans go to the completed Ground Zero Memorial, pull out their prayer rugs, and pray that the families of the victims have an iota of grief lifted off of them; and that Muslims around the world will unite against those who would commit violence against our republic?

Now, we all know what will happen: they will likely be castigated and harassed, if not beaten and kicked and spit upon.

We are better than that, and I won't have it any other way.

I'll defer to another Alabama graduate:

Roll Tide Joe! Were the Republican Party as decent, and thoughtful, and principled, and grown up as you.

It Would Be Uninteresting If It Weren't David Fincher

2010-08-27T21:39:00.002-05:00

And the musicians who beat Richard Cheese for the best cover of Radiohead's "Creep?" Scala and the Kolancy Brothers, which is apparently a Belgian girls choir.

I don't think I'll skip this one.

But I Want It Now!

2010-08-26T20:50:00.000-05:00

Episodes will alternate between universes.

How I Got My Camp

2010-08-21T22:28:00.003-05:00

"People, They're No Fun"

2010-08-18T22:04:00.003-05:00

"Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" is transcendentally hilarious. But before that, back when I was in college, a great punk musician wrote a song that covered the same topic.

I'd forgotten how much I love his work

2010-08-17T11:48:00.004-05:00

Helping the Ennis House

Doing the mural at the Atlanta Aquarium

AND appearing at Dragon Con this year!

Strangely (In)Appropriate

2010-08-17T09:55:00.007-05:00

This is a bad bit of boobala pop, but the subject and a slap near the end are worth it (from Upright Citizens Brigade).

Per aspera ad astra

2010-08-17T00:08:00.005-05:00

Ray Bradbury hates big government: 'Our country is in need of a revolution'

Ray Bradbury is mad at President Obama, but it's not about the economy, the war or the plan to a construct a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City.

“He should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,” says the iconic author, whose 90th birthday on Aug. 22 will be marked in Los Angeles with more than week's worth of Bradbury film and TV screenings, tributes and other events. “We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever."

and from Reason hit & run:

Ray Bradbury Hysterical Theater: We Got Too Much Gummint, Too Many Internets, But Not Enough Moon Colonies!

So Much Better Than The Movies

2010-08-13T19:22:00.001-05:00

Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3

My Life Will Soon Be Very Unproductive

2010-08-12T20:11:00.006-05:00

Force Unleashed 2 trailer:

Bioshock Infinite trailer:

Put your thinking tuques on

2010-08-11T13:24:00.003-05:00

Inception theory du jour of the day

I have always thought the name Ariadne to be lovely & have used it in various games. When I realized it was Ellen Page's character's name I was intrigued: Why pick a name from Greek antiquity? Ah, Christopher Nolan, you scamp, you are truly a thinking man's director.

Ariadne helped Theseus get out of the Minotaur's labyrinth by trailing string. Obviously this can refer to Inception's Ariadne's abilities as a dream architect, but can it also be a sly way of Christopher Nolan telling us what really happened to Cobb?

That's all the thinking I can do today. Now, back the to The Sims.

"There Is Not Conclusive Evidence..."

2010-08-11T01:37:00.004-05:00

David Boies makes homophobic ass-hat evangelical Tony Perkins his bitch.

This is why he won:

'No Evidence of Harm' from Same Sex Marriage. Watch more top selected videos about: Face the Nation

_________________________

The video might not work, but I strongly encourage you to follow the link and watch this video. It is AMAZING!!!

"The witness stand is a lonely place to lie."

My Lament, Put To Song

2010-08-10T23:20:00.006-05:00

When we look at the debase sprawl that engulfs our living space, we should all be held responsible for its horrifying banality:

They heard me singing and they told me to stop,
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock.

Modernism is dead. Long live the age of the dummies and their politics of failure and resignation...

I guess we're stuck on this decaying rock, doomed to perish.

Album Review: Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

2010-08-10T22:41:00.005-05:00

Arcade Fire's Funeral was inspired, and Neon Bible was brilliant (and both were suggestively atheistic). But their new album, The Suburbs, is exquisite.

I don't understand people who don't own and love Arcade Fire's albums. You might as well worship some god....

My Hero

2010-08-10T08:11:00.001-05:00

From CNN:

A flight attendant cursed out passengers, grabbed a beer then triggered an emergency chute Monday at a JFK Airport terminal, authorities say.

When the police arrived, he was having sex with his boyfriend.

"Do I Disappoint You, In Just Being Human?"

2010-08-06T00:31:00.002-05:00

Fully Processed

2010-08-05T22:34:00.003-05:00

Inception is now one of my top 3 movies ever.

Tim Minchin Explains Donnie Darko

2010-08-05T22:12:00.000-05:00

I Knew I Knew Where Mal Lived

2010-08-05T21:30:00.004-05:00

The buildings from Inception's purgatory reminded me of some mid-century modernist building, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.

At lunch today, I was perusing a book on modernist architecture, and I found it:

The Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles

Am I wrong?

And yes, I bought the book.

Must...Buy...

2010-08-05T20:32:00.002-05:00

Holy shit on a Jesus cracker with brie!

I love Picnic!

Somebody Smack This Has-Been

2010-08-04T22:34:00.003-05:00

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich called the decision "an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution"...

"Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy," Gingrich said in a statement .

For Newt, marriage has been between 1 man and 3 women. Not at the same time, of course; that would be too traditional.

Prop 8 Overturned, 14th Amendment Next

2010-08-04T19:44:00.011-05:00

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (a gay, libertarian conservative first nominated to the bench by known socialist and butt-cancer survivor, Ronald Reagan) overturned California's Prop 8, stating that,

The freedom to marry is recognized as a fundamental right protected by the Due Process Clause. See, for example, Turner v Safely, 482 US 78, 95 (1987)...

Uh oh, it's the Republican/Tea Party's new worst enemy: Amendment XIV!!! But what about "traditional marriage" in the US?

The evidence shows that the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles reflects an evolution in the understanding of gender rather than a change in marriage. The evidence did not show any historical purpose for excluding same-sex couples from marriage, as states have never required spouses to have an ability or willingness to procreate in order to marry. FF 21. Rather, the exclusion exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed.

Don't tell that to the fussbudgets over at Concerned Women for America. Those pious, submitting broads might rend their maternity aprons and stomp on them in disgust with their bare feet.

After going on about how the government must have a very compelling reason to restrict rights of a group of people--or some communist French nonsense like that--up comes my favorite part (which is a header, no less):

PROPOSITION 8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT DENIES PLAINTIFFS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT WITHOUT A LEGITIMATE (MUCH LESS COMPELLING) REASON

The whole thing is a scathing page-turner. Early in the ruling, Chief Judge Walker describes how the defendants only called two witnesses, one of whom was not qualified to enter expert testimony. It's as riotous as dry legalese can get, and it reminds me of Judge Jone's ruling in Kitzmiller vs. Dover.

Cheers to Gov. Schwarzenegger for refusing to defend Prop 8. And cheers to Chief Judge Walker for including this nugget:

That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, as “fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.” West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette...

Cue "activist."

Road Trip!!

2010-08-03T10:57:00.003-05:00

Go here

Inception Infographic

2010-08-01T18:41:00.002-05:00

at Giant Freaking Robot

I love the Internet: Inception/TS3 Trailer Smashup (no spoilers)

2010-07-30T08:52:00.002-05:00

Still One Of The Best Endings Ever

2010-07-27T21:04:00.006-05:00

Six Feet Under had one of the best endings of any series ever, transcending from a modern show exploring death to a sci-fi celebration of our inevitable end.

I cry every time I watch it...