Remember that video “Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else”? (In case you don’t remember, here’s the link.) Today, at the Atheist Film Festival in San Francisco, she won an award for “Most Humorous YouTube Video.” Woo! Here’s her acceptance speech: The whole thing is entertaining but the last couple seconds are particularly sweet… [...]

Normally when I hear the name Regina Spektor, I think “my gorgeous future wife.” Maybe I have to reconsider the wife part. Her new album, Far, is being released today. The first single is called “Laughing With” and it is essentially saying that we may scoff at the notion of God, but when we’re put [...]

Thomas Kinkade (a.k.a. “Painter of Light”) is a born-again Christian artist whose prints appear everywhere. He runs the Thomas Kinkade Co. He just lost a big court case because of shady business dealings — he now owes $2,100,000 — but notice how he manipulated the other side (Kinkade Signature Gallery owners): At a week-long presentation [...]