I'm doing some cutting and pasting and -- ugh -- Microsoft Word formatting, and I hope too soon have available, via Amazon, Volume 1 of a kinda sorta book-like version of the Left Behind series. This will need a title and a cover. And that's where you come in. Read more
"NoSavesies" in Philly? Here's a better goat simulator than the one you had been using. Blah blah blah Christians must be either right -wing or quiescent blah blah blah. Washington slept there. Plus dilophosaurs, anti-vaxxers, Southern Baptists and other small-brained creatures doomed for extinction. Read more
This bill is the epitome of the recent effort to redefine "religious liberty" as a way of enshrining the privileges of the privileged. It is an attempt to, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, secure a "monopoly on worldly honors and emoluments." The thing about monopolies, of course, is that unlike liberties, they can't be enjoyed by everyone -- only by the select chosen few. Read more
Episode of "House" helps save a real-life patient; a 500-year old song from a painting of a demonic butt-tattoo in Hell; correcting myths about the book of Revelation; Brent Bozell is the first of the ghostwriting president/founders to fall. Read more
"Card-playing and wine-drinking were the business at his parties, and he had more of such company Sundays than on any other day. I do not mention this as showing, in my estimation, his anti-Christian character, so much as the bare fact of being a slaveholder." Read more
The perpetual catechizing by tribal gatekeepers; 2014 Pat Robertson denounces evil, socialist 2008 Pat Robertson; lots of free pizza in the pipeline for Fracksylvania; the twilight of the haters. Read more
Richard Feynman answers questions from the audience at the Creation Museum (with some help from Buzzfeed and Zen Pencils). Read more
On the rare occasion that Patrick Henry College is known or referred to outside of its own constricted, incestuous circle, it's usually dismissed as "Homeschool U." or just "that crazy right-wing place ... no, not Bob Jones ... no, not Hillsdale ... the other one." To the extent that anyone knows of it, it's not as "God's Harvard" but as a refuge for the kind of people who think Liberty has gotten too liberal since Jerry Falwell died. Read more
Somehow this little fringe sect "marked by strict literal interpretations of the Bible" doesn't cancel all debt every six years. They are neither pacifists nor genocidal conquerors (both of which -- unfortunately for those who would be literal inerrantists -- are commanded in various places in the Bible). They do not practice Jubilee, or Sotah, or requiring the one with two tunics to give to the one who has none. Like all who claim such a "strict literal interpretation," they leave a vast amount of the Bible unacknowledged and seemingly unnoticed. Read more
Snake-handlers' weird, idiosyncratic distortion of the Bible produces an impressive display of commitment, but to what end? They've developed a form of religion that's all about putting faith to the test without ever putting it to use. It's a sign that doesn't signify anything other than itself, which is to say it's not a sign at all. Read more
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