Politics

Could Pat Robertson get any more out of touch with reality?

Yes­ter­day Pat Robert­son made another one of his trade­mark idi­otic state­ments. In response to Maine pro­vid­ing homo­sex­ual cou­ples the right to marry, Mr. Robert­son went on CBN and opened his mouth to let this shit dribble out:

Here is a tran­script, snagged from Think Progress:
HOST: Mean­while, the New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­ture has also voted in favor of […]


On “religious freedom” in the workplace…

With the Obama admin­is­tra­tion look­ing like they will be rolling back Bush era poli­cies allow­ing doc­tors to refuse to per­form cer­tain pro­ce­dures and/or refuse to pre­scribe or sell cer­tain med­ica­tions (let’s say RU-486 for exam­ple) the Internet’s polit­i­cal debate hotspots have erupted as expected. Over at the Some­thing Awful forums I saw a great […]


Billy Corgan has the right idea, but in the wrong direction.

Accord­ing to CNET, Billy Cor­gan (of Smash­ing Pump­kins fame) went in front of Con­gress to argue against the exemp­tion that allows ter­res­trial radio broad­cast­ers to only pay song­writ­ers and pub­lish­ers, but not artists, for the right to play their music. Satel­lite and inter­net broad­cast­ers by com­par­i­son must pay all three.
I’m 100% in favor of making […]


Blasphemy Day International 2009

PZ over at Pharyn­gula linked to this Face­book group, so I had to share. Blas­phemy Day Inter­na­tional 2009.


What I Want For Christmas

I’m not the first to post this today, but it’s cer­tainly worth the read. The fol­low­ing is from Robert Ingersoll’s “What I Want For Christ­mas.”
If I had the power to pro­duce exactly what I want for next Christ­mas, I would have all the kings and emper­ors resign and allow the peo­ple to gov­ern them­selves.
I […]


Happy 75th, legal booze!

Today is the 75th anniver­sary of the repeal of Pro­hi­bi­tion.  As a fan of alco­hol in all its forms, I fig­ured I’d write up a bit of his­tory and my thoughts on the lessons of Pro­hi­bi­tion.
The roots of Pro­hi­bi­tion can be traced to the mid-1800s when cer­tain Chris­t­ian groups, par­tic­u­larly Methodists and later Bap­tists.  Many […]


Pharyngula: What word is missing in this story?

Pharyn­gula: What word is miss­ing in this story?.
A very inter­est­ing point by PZ Mey­ers, why is it that white Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives are exempt from the label “ter­ror­ist”?
Hell, I’m a white Amer­i­can and I’ve been told I’m sup­port­ing “the ter­ror­ists” because I’m against the PATRIOT act.  I guess being nutty on the con­ser­v­a­tive side of the […]


Focus on the Family prove their idiocy once again

Those fun­da­men­tal­ist idiots are at it again, this time try­ing to rile up the red states with an exag­ger­ated let­ter writ­ten from the per­spec­tive of an evan­gel­i­cal in 2012 under an Obama admin­is­tra­tion (PDF).
I hes­i­tate to start on this post because it’s already 11 PM and I have to work tomor­row, but I’ve been thinking […]