So, I'm beginning the process of getting myself a passport so that I might go down to the uninhabitable wasteland of Arizona in order to visit my brother (coincidentally also named David). He and I actually haven't seen one another in seven years now, since I took the unbearable and astonishingly eye-opening two day bus journey from my home here in ( Read more... )

Today, I discovered a delightful site called "America Speaking Out"; a website created by the American Republican party, putatively for the purposes of creating an online forum where Americans can let the Republican party leadership know what they're thinking about. The structure is a simple one: Anyone can join, free of charge, with a very quick ( Read more... )

I’ve pointed out a time or three that one of the central tenets of modern christianity is that their god, Yahweh, is an absolutely inept communicator, incapable of making himself understood or speaking and a coherent or comprehensible way; the bible is about 90% stuff that you’re apparently not supposed to take literally, or indeed observe at all, ( Read more... )

The other day, US president Barack Obama, in his good-will tour of the far east, committed the ( Read more... )

This morning, Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, took part in the Armistice Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, France. This is the first time a German Chancellor has done so since the practice began after WW2. France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, called this an "historic act", and indeed it was.


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More solid gold from The Onion

I don't know if The Onion has recently hired some new writers or something, but a lot of their recent stuff has been awesomely cockpunching. Like a return to their glory days.

...but this guy has got to be the funniest of the batshit insane Obama haters.

EDIT! I managed to find a Youtube of the full video! Huzzah!

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Apparently this guy - this Reverend Manning - has gone on on this topic at some very considerable length, over and over again, but this video seems to be kind of the summation and aggregation of all of his crazy ( Read more... )

The Onion can be a little hit and miss, but when they hit, they hit hard. This made me laugh really, really hard.


New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

It seems that the other day, it somehow made the news that some US serviceman out there somewhere had bought into the tired old "fake birth certificate" meme that has been floating around in the American right-wing media for the past year or so and referred to President Obama as a "Usurper". While this would not under ordinary circumstances be of ( Read more... )