Aaah, you know what time it is. The Family Research Council (a homophobic organization in bed with the National Organization for Marriage and other fundamentalist dominionist Christian groups) had their head honcho post this piece of trash on CNN.com:

Apparently, Jesus was a free market supporter. Christ for Capitalism! WHEEE!!!

This is such a juicy ( Read more... )

This is NOT worksafe due to language.  A LOT of language.  This is a brilliantly and elegantly direct commentary on the Pope's defense (and feigned ignorance) of all the child-raping priests in the Catholic church.

If you're Catholic, and you want the church leadership to come clean, ferret out the child rapists, and have those child-abusing ( Read more... )

As some of you know, the Boobquake on Monday was the inadvertent brainchild of a college student from Indiana who responded with delightful tongue-in-cheek humor to that Iranian cleric who said that promiscuous women cause earthquakes.  So the natural, scientific way to test that assertion was to dress provocatively and then check the earthquake ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from cluegirl 's LJ, HERE:

During the course of the case, the CDCR, other related defendants, and the Assistant Attorneys General who represents them have argued before the court that Pagans are not deserving of equal civil rights as are provided adherents of the preferred faiths. In one of their first arguments to the court, the defendants ( Read more... )

Have you ever played with Google Trends? It takes one, two, or more topics, and graphs the amount of internet traffic on that topic over a span of time. Basically, you can compare trends to see if there are correlations between things. They can be totally random things, or closely related things.

Today, I decided to play with Google Trends, and ( Read more... )

Why is it that I seem to attract these people?  It's like flies to honey, or mosquitoes to a bug zapper ( Read more... )

When it comes to religion, there are certain things upon which we can all agree.   We all agree that there's a God.  We all trust him.  No decent American taxpayer would be offended by a "non-sectarian" prayer.  And, of course, we all know that's why "in God we trust" and "one nation, under God" are in the Constitution.

And if you've been paying ( Read more... )

Remember my anger over House Resolution 847?

That's nothing compared to THIS shit:
House Resolution 888.

No, it hasn't been passed.  However, the simple fact that this has even made it to the floor of the House of Representatives, and the grotesque amount of historical error and manipulation contained in this Resolution... it's enough to make me want ( Read more... )

I've launched upon a personal mission this year.  I'm investigating the ways in which the evangelical and fundamentalist Christians are taking over our government and its agencies, forcing their beliefs down the throats of our troops (whether they want it or not), gaining special privileges, and enacting prejudice and discrimination against those ( Read more... )