Category: Head-Explodes

Misc. links to things that will expand your mind

I used to enjoy Christopher Hitchens

…but over the last few years this has become less and less true. I’m a pretty rabid atheist, but when someone makes Dawkins look like a moderate on religion, they might have gone a bit too far, you know? And ever since he went pro-war on Iraq, his writings on foreign policy have taken on a continually more defensive and… Read more →

This stuff is deadly and it is spreading

You are about to hear Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern (sallykern@okhouse.gov) speaking when she thought that only 50 highly-targeted people were listening. Every time I start feeling good about humanity, something like this comes along to remind me that we’re basically ten minutes away from hitting each other with sticks. How can people this hateful still manage to exist in… Read more →

Religion Bashing For Thursday

OK, let’s close some tabs. First off, let’s start with our old friend, the head Inquisitioner, Pope Benedict. It appears he’s been a naughty fellow. A BBC documentary has exposed that Pope Benedict XVI, aka Cardinal Ratzinger, played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests. In 2001, while he was a cardinal,… Read more →

Can Not Process Data

You know those hoary old SF stories where the hero defeats the robot/intelligent energy matrix/computer/whatever by giving it information that can not be logically processed–isn’t “Is the following statement true? ‘This statement is false.’” the classic one?–and thus causing the super-powerful processing of the robot/intelligent energy matrix/computer/whatever to burn out, usually accompanied by a nice visual of electrical explosions? Well,… Read more →

Exceeding Expectations: Republicans and The Crazy

Seriously? I mean, seriously? Republicans picked Huckabee? Even in crazy Jesusland, isn’t “I won’t sign this bill because calling a tornado an ‘act of God’ makes God look bad” crazy enough to make someone unelectable? I expected some ludicrousness from Americans, especially Republicans, but my expectations have been exceeded. And I thought the TSA facecrime thing would be the dumbest… Read more →

Canadians: Did You Call Jim Prentice Today?

I did. Don’t know who Jim Prentice is? Why he’s the Minister of Industry in Harper’s evil regime. And why should you have called him today? Well, that’s a long one. The short version is that he’s spearheading a really, really, REALLY bad law–essentially a Canadian version of the American’s dire DMCA–and since he’s been either dodging any questions from… Read more →

He’s Out To Get Me

And in recent Catholic Church news, possibly relevant to the ongoing discussion between my friend Biff and I in another post’s comments, we have the current Pope lashing out at… atheists: Pope Benedict, in a new encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” in history. … The… Read more →

Coincidence

Bush hits record disapproval ratings on the same day that oil gets within spitting distance of $100 a barrel? Sure, he can fake a country into a war, run a torture prison, admit that he tortures people, run a special program to extradite people for torture, remove all civil rights, spy on citizens without any warrants, arrange massive scams to… Read more →

Apparently I need to move back to Ontario…

… just to slap argue some sense into some people. Look at this: Creationism raised as Ont. election issue TORONTO — Publicly-funded religious schools would be allowed to teach creationism and other theories, says Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory. Speaking to reporters at the a Jewish day school in Thornhill, Ont., on Wednesday, Mr. Tory defended his plan to bring… Read more →

Roman Catholic Church Traveling Backwards In Time

So, did you see the things emanating from the new Pope this week? Wednesday he officially declared that there is no such thing as a Protestant “church”, and that at best Protestants can be “ecclesial communities”. Apparently this is based on his analysis that “because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood”, Protestant organizations had not “preserved the genuine and… Read more →

Q.O.T.D.

“I pretty much started believing they’ll try anything they can get away with once it was confirmed that they really have instituted a series of secret prisons around the world and that they reserve the right to kidnap anyone on the planet, hold them forever without trial, and torture them to death.” Read more →

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