Letter to An Administrator
You may be aware that PZ Myers has come to the attention of the Catholic League (“For Religious and Civil Rights”), for lightheartedly offering to “desecrate” a communion wafer, if someone would send...
View ArticleIs John McCain (Maxwell) Smart?
I don’t know why I haven’t heard more about the “Cone of Silence.” I chuckle every time I think of John McCain sitting under it in a room by himself. It brings to mind THIS. I can just all-too-easily...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Radioactive Girl
Good things are happening right now: The news media has finally, finally, FINALLY grown a set, and is asking the McCain and Palin camp some hard questions, and demanding answers. For Palin, the shit...
View ArticleThe Rumor Starts Here
I’m starting the rumor that President Bush plans to go back to Crawford, Texas and open a tire store, “Presidential Tires — Where the Rubber Meets the Rode” (sic), or possibly a small roadside barbecue...
View ArticleThoughts on Bush’s Farewell Address
Bye, Mr. Bush. . . . . . . . Don’t let the White House door hit you in the ass on your way out. . . . . . . .
View ArticleCode Blue!!!!!!
I’m chuckling, but in a grim way. I get these emails from something called Worldview Weekend, a Christianist organization that sees a plot to murder God – and white people – in every shadow. I signed...
View ArticleBe Alert … because the world needs more lerts
I somehow got onto a right-wing Christian mailing list. Without fail, EVERY email they send me is both amusing and disturbing. That they’re so wrong, but so earnest, is funny. That they’re enticing...
View ArticleBeta Culture: Dealing With Conservatives
Had a little epiphany today about the sense of humor, and why ultra-conservatives don’t seem to have much of it. Humor requires a certain flexibility of mind, a capacity to quickly change mental...
View ArticleShort Stack #24
Just sent in my application to the United Nations for the Pig Latin interpreter post. I think my chances are good. I’ve been speaking it since the third grade. ————————– One bad shower can scar you for...
View ArticlePetition the Veep: Stop Evil-lution in Schools!
Ooh, sign me up! A petition addressed to VP-elect Mike Pence asks for (drum roll, clash of cymbals!) … A NATIONWIDE MORATORIUM ON THE TEACHING OF EVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS (A “moratorium.” Just until we can...
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