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It's about time:

Duh!

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

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

Maybe "The Archimedes" Would Have Been A Better Name

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?

Must...see...

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

My Adopted Senator

Religious Abuse Is Nothing New

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."

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

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

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

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