Archive for April, 2008

Book Burning 2.0 »

Have you been feeling the urge to get together with some of your best friends and burn literature that you know is an abomination before the Lord your God?  Do you really want to stick it to Steinbeck in the old fashioned Fahrenheit 451 way, but your city council refuses to give you a permit […]

Dems Debate Bullshit, Pass on the Science »

So the Chaplain has found out that Obama and Clinton have declined to participate in Science Debate 2008, preferring to attend a debate about faith and religion.  I could probably complain long and loudly about this disappointing development, but the Chaplain does a much better job.
So check out his blog and read the post.  Both […]

Taking Your Right Wing Politics Too Literally »

Evidently there is a gentleman running for the Senate in Idaho who has legally changed his name to Pro-Life.  Please take a moment to let the enormity of this man’s idiocy sink in.  Here I thought that the Midwest had the market cornered on fundamentalist nutjobs, and that the Pacific coast would be free of […]

Moral Relativism is the Root of All Society’s Problems! »

Some third grade students in Georgia were allegedly conspiring to kill or seriously harm their teacher, and the plot was blown open yesterday.  I’d place the blame for an incident like this squarely on the little brats and the parents that raised them as little brats, but Christian media wanks know who the real culprit […]

The Bible Literacy Project is Thinly Veiled Proselytizing »

In my particular corner of the Bible Belt there are billboards that have sprung up like weeds claiming “An educated person knows the Bible” and directing drivers to the Bible Literacy Project.  I never understood why projects like this always seem to spring up in the Bible Belt where they’re already preaching to the converted.  […]