...Wow. I can't believe that the pope resigned. (Granted, I never thought that Pope Palpatine was doing a good job, but I didn't think that a pope could abdicate.)


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There are times I just don't even recognize the United States anymore. I am disgusted by these outrages.

First we've got this. GOP Congressional Candidate from Iowa asks: "I can microchip my dog so I can find it. Why can't I microchip an illegal?"

Yeah, because that doesn't imply that illegal immigrants are animals, property or things and deserve ( Read more... )

According to Rowling, Harry Potter is rife with Christian symbolism.

O RLY?

I guess she forgot about other things she said previously, in which she talked about what she was doing in her writing, in comparison to symbols and metaphors that other writers had used. Like this:

( In which Rowling contradicts herself a LOT. )

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I am deeply amused by this. I bet you didn't realise that Mary Sues and Gary Stus had been around for two thousand years...

Holy Mary-Sue

The Shrub now wants to know who goes to what church.

He wants church membership directories turned over to him.

Sound unbelievable? Read on.

( Bush Seeks Church Membership Data )

You need to go to penknife's LJ and check out her piece about the Marriage Affirmation Act in Virginia. It's at 818 posts so far and still growing.

In particular, you need to see casapazzo's snarky post on page 4 in response to a troll who...well, I think my Christian friends (all of whom are bright and snarky people) would say to him, "Don't be on my side! You ( Read more... )

I've thought of something that could mess up Bush's whole marriage amendment.

All it takes is one new religion.

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You know, every time I start thinking that there might be some remote point to religion, something like this happens:

Robertson's Divine Intervention on Bush

( Let me provide you with the gist of this )

The Bible--or at least the New Testament--has just been redone, and I cannot say that I have ever seen a tackier-looking Testament. It resembles an issue of Sassy or Seventeen, though the editors claim that they have given the Bible a "Cosmo look ( Read more... )