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April 20th, 2006

I think Josh is probably right, that part of the reason there isn’t going to be any “new blood” in the White House is that no one actually wants to join the team. Eschaton  

April 17th, 2006

As a practicing Catholic (which is to say I need a lot of practice) I believe that Christ never was or claimed to be a Nietzchean ubermensch bent on faith-based genocide. Nor do I believe for a second that he’s going to rapture the Baptist-Evangelical-Pentecostals’ hate-mongering, willfully ignorant, terminally intolerant, gun-toting, gay-bashing, race-baiting, blame-the-poor-for-poverty, I’m-saved-and-you’re-not asses up to heaven. The Blog | Tony Hendra: The Christian Right? Their Christ Is No Christian | The Huffington Post  

What makes the last few years so strange is that this administration has essentially been losing its campaigns, at home and abroad, to nobody. TomDispatch - Tomgram: History Ambushes the Bush Administration  

Via Pharyngula, these tryouts for Stan Lee’s new superhero reality show remind me of nothing so much as the hero recruitment drive in Mystery Men. Arcane Gazebo: Life imitates art: superhero tryouts  

Remember when you pee-peed in the grass? Just do that, Spiderman. mimi smartypants  

For instance, I keep seeing books with titles like French Women Don’t Get Fat or Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat or The Jesus Diet of Bitter Herbs or You Fucking American Fatass, Why Don’t You Eat More Chickpeas and Olives? Diablo Cody - Pussy Ranch - Stop Hating Yourself  

April 16th, 2006

but we’re still allowed to talk freely about the quite legal invasion of foreign countries, right? UK terror legislation hits website owners: boagworld  

April 12th, 2006

I hereby join the parade of those who say, “Enough.” tompeters!  

April 11th, 2006

I wonder if they have a bunny card for Glen Close? the cool hunter - CLUELESS IN THE KITCHEN  

April 10th, 2006

NOTE: It is an open question as to whether Safety Frog is related to the apocryphal Smackie the Frog. Improbable Research » Blog Archive » Safety frog  

April 9th, 2006

When I looked up from the table, I peered through a haze to see six teachers and a hundred and fifty fourth graders giving me horrified stares. Cool. Nice Shoes, Wanna Fock?: Twelve words I didn’t think I’d be saying tonight  

April 6th, 2006

I’ve just gotta say that I keep hearing Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” song all the time on the radio and I can’t get over the bad advice it gives. All I’m saying is that if you ever hit a sheet of black ice, don’t let go of the wheel. I don’t care how religious you are, Jesus does not suddenly grab your steering wheel when you let go of it. I know because I’ve let go of the wheel a number of time to test that out. Even the pope in his pope mobile on black ice wouldn’t throw up his hands and be like, “Hey, Why don’t you take this one?” especially not if he had a baby in the back seat. Sure I know the larger message of the song, but everytime I hear her hitting a sheet of ice and her letting go of the wheel, I keep thinking man she should have stayed in Driver’s Ed a little bit longer. blog.myspace.com/27069206  

Intelligent Design is much easier to explain and it only takes one day out of the curriculum, which means all that time saved can be used to teach kids more important things like how to use a cash register for when they get a job at Wal-Mart. Jon Swift: Intelligent Design  

Despite mounting geological evidence, the liberal academic elite has continually scoffed at my years of scholarship concerning the reality of the so-called “fairy tale” of Little Red Riding Hood. Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding: THE TRUTH OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD  

Once you know the triggers you can code and these blobs of sweetness just dribble down the page. Sometimes I think I hear harps playing in the background. Snippets 0.01