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

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!"

It Keeps Getting Better And Better

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

Ruling From The Living Tomb

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Outdated mores and bigotry are, once again, upheld and preserved by dated, ossified politicians.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...

"There Is Not Conclusive Evidence..."

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

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

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What Does This Even Mean?

Sharon Angle, the Republican running for Harry Reid's Senate seat, actually said the following:

I believe that God has been in this from the beginning and because of that when he has a plan and a purpose for your life and you fit into that, what he calls you to he always equipped you for.

Do these people even listen to what they say? And what religious monster hasn't said something similar? I bet if you search the rantings of Bin Laden, you'll find similar drivel.

The Industrial Revolution Has Slipped The Bitch On Evolution

...and prosperity via simpleton culture: the idiots are taking over.

It's Not Just Evolution They Want To Dismiss

David Barton is a Christian fundamentalist tool. He has no history bone fides, but he was lauded as a serious history scholar by the Texas Board of Education. He justifies his theocratic notions by waving around a letter by John Adams that he says proves that said Founder believed that the Holy Spirit supported...nay wrote...the Constitution. As John Adams was a Unitarian, such a supposition should be immediately and logically dismissed.

Glen Beck, however...

No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must be Administered by the Holy Ghost from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.

Distrust anything you hear from Fox News: they are all the infections that the sun sucks up.

These People...

Oh...My...Jefferson...

Read this: the commencement speech of a high school valedictorian after he (with the ACLU) fought and won a case prohibiting prayer at the ceremony.

Plan Jesus From Outer Biblevania

I can't wait to see this: Audience of One

Thanks to EP. Watching that trailer reminded me of this:

That's Stephen Baldwin after he (via a publicist) asked good Christian folk to send money to "restore" him. While it's on Funny or Die, it was originally a serious Christian proposal.

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How transparent does nonsense have to be? Or is it all a show? Or a scam? Or an Andy Kaufman-inspired joke? How could anyone judge? Except to say: it's funny and not true.

I admit that my disgust of the credulous has no credulous limits. But by the definition of credulity, how does one distinguish tragic irony from the bottomless credulity of the religious?

I [Heart] The 14th Amendment

Never do I want my loved ones or anybody else (including me) stripped of the guarantees of the US constitution based on the accusation of treason, terrorism, or anything else. I would just as well strip myself of them by walking down the street.

I have my rights. Any naturalized citizen has the same. Any potential mass murderer from another country has the same. The US constitution clearly distinguishes between "citizen" and "person," and here's the 14th:

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Our predecessors didn't fight Triple George, the Confederacy, and Nazi Germany so to coward at extremists. The ideals of an independent judiciary and of a democratic republic based on individual rights should not be so capriciously discarded just because someone could bomb a popular New York intersection.

If we are better than them, let's be better than them.

Hey, All Straight Conservative Founders Of Anti-gay Christian Groups Do That

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49th By The Grace Of...

I always say that Alabama's state motto is "49th by the grace of Mississippi." But now, we're 48th by the grace of Arizona. Seriously, this law is so sick that--should all the world be turned into a radioactive waste heap save Arizona--I will die of fire and cancer and starvation before I go there.

I'm sure police in Arizona don't have anything better to do than randomly search brown people for evidence of citizenship.

"Papers please, and sieg heil y'all!" What a bunch of fascist ass hats.

Still Funny, Sadly Still Relevant

I [heart] Tom Lehrer:

For When You Get Bored Looking At Walcreatues

Teabonics

Philip Pullman Has A New Book

And its title alone is making some people very upset.


Pullman addresses the controversy well:

The Ten Commandments Are A Poor Substitute For A Moral Code

Whenever I hear Christians, even the more reasonable ones I work with, extol the virtues of the Ten Commandments, I end up having a rather heated and strange argument with otherwise sensible folk who ignorantly maintain that morality--and our democratic republican government--is based on them.

My arguments are not received well by these people. To quote Ayn Rand, "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. " And any reasonable person can determine that virtually all of the first amendment to the constitution defies many of the Bible's top ten proscriptions.

Christopher Hitchens very deftly dissects the ten rules that will, in the end, purportedly determine whether any human is sent to an eternal torture chamber that makes Nazi concentration camps a comparative Disneyland. What is included, and what is left out, is telling of its origin. And nobody, and no court, and no governing body, needs them now.



Why has it never occurred to the religious that no society has made their Ten Commandments the law of the land and thrived or even survived?

I Think We All Called This One

We predicted that Tim Tebow's saccharine, garish religiosity would be seen as irksome and puerile by the NFL. And it's already started:

At the Scouting Combine, the Wonderlic exam is administered to players in groups. The 12-minute test is preceded by some brief instructions and comments from the person administering the test.

Per a league source, after the person administering the test to Tebow's group had finished, Tebow made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam.

Said one of the other players in response: "Shut the f--k up." Others players in the room then laughed.

Those were, I insist, the appropriate responses. By all means, let Tim murmer to whatever magical being he fancies. But to assume that everyone else in the room wanted to join him--and were sheepishly waiting for a righteous, brave Christian like Tebow to take the spiritual lead in the cosmically significant event of taking a standardized test--is as ostentatious as it is presumptuous and ridiculous.

And, as Christopher Hitchens says, rightly are the simple so called: Tebow scored a below-average 22 on the Wonderlic test. Seriously, that's pathetic. It's a test I could have aced in middle school.