Mel Gibson wants us to "hammer God with prayers and hammer him hard." (Source). All this to keep Terry Schiavo alive. Now, I have many thoughts on the Schiavo case, but that’s for another day. My point here is that I don’t think we should be "hammering God" with prayers, the way Viagra companies hammer me with ads for penis … Read More
iPotato
One of the few times I was ahead of the culture curve was about two years ago when I bought my 40G iPod. This was waaaaay before the latest Apple advertising scheme, with silohuettes and U2 and wild dancing. That’s right — I (for once) was a trendsetter (and I still love my iPod). But apparently, I was outdone by … Read More
The Jury Is Still Out . . .
even though it has been eighty years since it came back. Look, folks. The Earth revolves around the sun. The Bible is wrong when it says otherwise. And evolution is real. The Bible is wrong if it says otherwise. It is time to face facts. If your belief in God is so shaky that you have to belief everything in … Read More
The Rise of the Religious Left?
Let’s hope so. From the Northeast Mississippt Daily Journal: This past week, leaders of five mainstream Protestant denominations came together to speak in one voice. Standing shoulder to shoulder, leaders of the Episcopal Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church together condemned the 2006 Federal budget proposed by President … Read More
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Movie Trailer
Here (Quicktime format).
My Country’s Representatives Embarrass Me Again
US Draws Jeers for Abortion Comments at UNFri Mar 4, 2005 08:35 PM ET By Deborah Zabarenko UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Jeers and catcalls greeted the top U.S. delegate to a global women’s conference on Friday as she stressed Washington’s opposition to abortion and support for sexual abstinence and fidelity. After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. … Read More
Kansas Attorney General – A Liar and a Wanker
Kevin Drum is right: Kansas AG Phill Kline claims he needs abortion records of teenage girls because he figures some of them were raped and he wants to track down the rapists. So why not get the records of teenage girls who actually give birth too? Mouse Words reports that Kline addressed that question today: I have stated that repeatedly; … Read More
Gods and Democrats
Reprinted from The American Street (PZ Myers): Amy Sullivan has a pet peeve: “the seemingly reckless way in which terms like ‘values’ and ‘religion’ and ‘morals’ are being tossed about in the press.” She’s an outspoken liberal Christian, and I’m an outspoken liberal atheist, and I have to say that I agree completely. I also somewhat agree with this comment, … Read More
The Ten Commandments Case
It’s been a long while since I got legal on yo’ ass, but I’m a lawyer and a Constitutional afficando, so it is high time I write something of substance on constitutional law. For a background on the Ten Commandments case being argued in the Supreme Court, read here. The case (at least the "Kentucky" part of it) involves the … Read More
Saving Children’s Delicate Ears From Private Ryan
So, I just read the FCC Opinion about why use of the F-word (and "shit" and other words) in ABC’s uncensored broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan" was not obscene. It is because when our boys stormed the beaches at Normandy, and a guy’s arm got blown off, he didn’t say, "Gosh darnnit! That hurts like the dickens!" No. He said, … Read More
Ned Flanders Rainy Day Fun
"It may seem a tad odd making Jesus out of a toilet paper roll, but I think the end result is quite nice," says this Christian site. Yes, it is quite nice. Still, it still is frightfully odd. But NOT as odd as this recipe from the same Christian website, which I reprint in full: This is really easy. No … Read More
Hot Journalism Chicks
You know Liz Marlantes, who is only 30 and (formerly) a great writer for the Christian Science Monitor and who is really cute as well as smart and not only because she looks like Claire Yasewicz who I went to high school with, but because she really is pretty and she went to Harvard, too? Well, ABC picked her up. … Read More
Why I Need To Read More
These are the 110 most banned books. The ones I have read (or mostly read) are in bold; the ones I have read excerpts of are in italics. #1 The Bible#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes#4 The Koran#5 Arabian Nights (any number of doubtless-abridged versions)#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan … Read More
Oscar Night
For the first time in many many many many many years, I really didn’t give a shit. I hadn’t seen most of the movies, except "Sideways" which was nice. I’m glad Morgan Freeman won. That was nice. But here’s the thing: does Chris Rock suck bigtime or what?
From the Producers of “The Swift Boat Veterans for *cough* Truth *cough*”…
… comes the latest in surreal conservative propaganda. And it is a doosy. AARP: Anti-military. Pro Gay. Therefore, we should privatize social security. This is a copy of the the ad being run by USANext, the conservative alternative to AARP (when you click the actual ad, you are taken to USANext‘s home page). There’s no article or argument as to … Read More