You've probably heard the joke about the classic Jewish dilemma: free pork. Well, my father experienced something very much like that tonight. A coffee shop was giving away free bagels. On passover week. Free chumetz on Pesach. This is right up there with McDonald's line of tref bagels back in the 90s. Or was it Burger King? Anyway, they all ( Read more... )

Well, nothing that exciting. It's not the Red Hour or anything ( Read more... )

Pope Benedict XVI, Pontifex Maximus, Agnus Filii Dei, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam, ad astra per aspera, has rescinded his predecessor's excommunication of four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, an anti-Semitic reactionary group that rejects the Vatican II reforms ( Read more... )

Today in my local paper the top half of one of the interior pages was taken up with a story on the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. The bottom half was an advertisement for one of televangelist Pat Robertson's businesses. What more needs to be said, really?

Governor Palin has said that building a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Shore is God's work. How DARE she pretend to be God's personal spokesman on economic matters like that ( Read more... )

The next time someone talks about Islam being an inherently violent religion and cherry-picks evidence from the Koran to back up the claim, remember: there is no hymn that goes "Joshua facilitated the encounter group of Jericho, and the emotional walls came tumbling down."

Substitute teacher fired in Florida.

Bugs Bunny was right. We should have just sawed off Florida and pushed it towards South America.

Stumbled across this movie description browsing imdb ( Read more... )

An 11 year old girl in Wisconsin has died of diabetes-related complications. The condition was easily treatable, but the mother, a firm believer in prayer, refused to seek medical attention for her daughter, ignoring the pleas of relatives to get the kid treatment. She even tried to refuse an ambulance after the child slipped into a coma ( Read more... )

Thomas vs. ifornia, that is ( Read more... )