The email I get from believers is generally pretty spectacularly bad. I used to blog it. Now I get so much of it that I just giggle and move on. But the comments I get from believers I’ve banned are so depressingly obsessed and/or just frighteningly inane, they make the emails I get look like the resuscitation of Oscar Wilde. Their comments never see the light of day, of course, but they keep submitting them anyway. They wind up in... Read more
The other day I was chatting with my dad when some movement on the deck caught my eye. It was two turkeys at the bird feeder (you know, for tiny birds) enjoying a Friendsmas feast. I took up my phone and sneaked around to a window in the kitchen to try and get a better picture. What he’s doing in this shot is pooping on the deck right before flying off. Ungrateful fucking fowl. Read more
An Indian woman, only seventeen years-old, has ended her life by ingesting poison. She decided to end her life in the wake of being pressured to marry one of the men who recently raped her. Inspector General Paramjit Singh Gill said that the teenager had been “running from pillar to post to get her case registered” but officers failed to open a formal inquiry. “One of the officers tried to convince her to withdraw the case,” Gill, the police chief... Read more
Patheos’ selling point is that they are all about the conversation between faiths. So far, I’m actually impressed with them. They seem to give their writers tenure immediately, with the freedom to criticize as we please. So, in keeping with that tradition, we have Patheos blogger Dwight Longenecker directing the conversation at people like yours truly with his post “Stupid Atheists”. It’s the next in a continuation of Catholics whining, right on the heels of Bill Donahue. He’s talking about... Read more
Dum dee dum…reading the news. While I’m doing that, here are a couple fun vids that got thrown my way yesterday. First, if you’ve watched any football the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen a couple commercials for Pepsi with an old guy named “Uncle Drew” playing basketball. It turns out there’s a story there. NBA rookie-of-the-year last year (and reportedly super nice guy) Kyrie Irving decided to troll a pick up game last summer. He wrote the lines and... Read more
So we’re headed toward the fiscal cliff and, while our legislators are hot on the job (or on vacation, either way), many Americans are wondering how we got here. Well, Benjamin Wiker over at The National Catholic Register has figured it out: it’s secularism. That we seem to be merrily rolling along toward a fiscal cliff is evident. Why is not as clear — at least not the deep why. Some of the depth of the problem can be plumbed... Read more
GOP financial backer (and world-class asshole) David Koch, is flexing his muscle with the GOP legislators, many of which he helped to get elected. He wants to stop federal relief funding to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The top deputy of Koch’s group, Americans for Prosperity, had this to say. New Jersey’s Americans for Prosperity State Director called on legislators to reject the bill, saying that aid would be a burden on the country’s taxpayers and would be misspent at... Read more
South Carolina resident, Ashley Miller, will love this one. After Jim DeMint resigned his senate seat in that state to take over a conservative think tank, governor Nikki Haley began the search for his replacement. The most likely person to fill that role is Tim Scott, and he’s a winner just like Charlie Sheen. He’s a Christian, who has come through tremendous persecution to get where he is. Over the last 17 years of public service, I have seen the... Read more
I asked Santa for an irony buffet, and he apparently delivered. Grover Norquist, whose most notable accomplishment has been getting a large number of Republican legislators to sign a pledge committing them to never raise taxes, under any circumstances, has a new gripe with the President: Obama is apparently not negotiating. This is an explosion of absurd irony. It’s like Ken Ham being pissed at PZ Myers for being a creationist nut. Of course, Obama has been negotiating. But for... Read more
At a university in Virginia, a volleyball coach is being fired for the crime of being gay. Just three days before Thanksgiving, one of the most loved and most successful coaches at Virginia Commonwealth University was fired — my friend Coach James Finley. After delivering a 25-6 winning season and graduating every one of his seniors, Coach Finley was unceremoniously shown the door — for no reason other than being unashamedly who he is…a gay man. When letting the team... Read more
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