Good Old Neon

After much practice and trial and error (and sweating), I have mastered the art of reading while exercising on a stationary bike (provided the book, unlike its owner, is slim enough to fit into the little book holder thingy attached to the

Or that, if you really feel the need to point that sort of thing out.

Happy Birthday, Kim Gordon (if that really is you, and let

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The proliferation of such threads - the fact that you continue entering into them against your own will (?) or all of the above? (With all due respect) I ask only because though I agree this could have been posted in the

With all due respect.....

Richard Dawkins, atheist extraordinaire has tried to spark an Atheists for Jesus campaign - I could get behind that. Dawkins: I am no memetic engineer, and I have very little idea how to increase the numbers of the super nice and spread their memes through the meme pool. The best I can offer is what I hope may be a catchy slogan. 'Atheists for Jesus' would grace a T-shirt. There is no strong reason to choose Jesus as icon, rather than some other role model from the ranks of the super nice such as Mahatma Gandhi (not the odiously self-righteous Mother Teresa, heavens no). I think we owe Je

Says the woman who was quite cozy with a secessionist party - I mean, it

You betcha I do!

Indeed I did, and the results are, as we speak, being peer reviewed. Pending approval, which, duh - they will, I assure you, be published, post haste, in the very next available journal of the AAAS. Thanks for asking. And, I appreciate your willingness to consider me as a possible candidate for the role of the next all knowing deity. If, at some point in the future, I have a change of heart, and decide to seek such a post, please rest assured that I will be a most kind and benevolent leader.

Thanks for posting that, Tam - it's heartening to know there are still some reasonable voices out there.

It does sound crazy, but not because of what I said, but because it is the truth.

Yes, I am, I am legitimately concerned that a young earth creationist end times rapture wishing let

Given that one of them is now dangerously close to holding the most powerful position on the planet, it

Yeah, would it be too much to ask to like, urge our leaders to not rely on a work of 2000 year old fiction to govern the fucking country already for christsakes goddamit motherfuck?

Dennis Hotchkiss and his Crossroads congregation are not a bunch of old stiffs. They gather in a high school auditorium with no religious "icons," to call the spirit of the Lord through Christian rock 'n' roll, a reaching up of arms, waving of flags, spontaneous utterances (speaking in tongues), and a sermon that included cheerleading for "our Sarah" and assurances to one another, "You are righteous." The pastor, a handsome, silver-haired man who preaches in a sport shirt untucked over jeans, was eager to educate us. We asked him. "If Sarah Palin becomes vice-president, would she be the mos

Assuming Palin agrees with or believes this bullshit, would it be ok for us to carry on with the fear mongering? From Salon: The Word from Wasilla Sarah Palin's Pentecostal supporters in Alaska hail her debate performance and her rise to the national stage as the work of God. Oct. 3, 2008 | Sarah Palin appeared transformed in last night's debate. There may be an unearthly reason. If God is listening, he cannot be missing the passion that evangelical voters are investing in her. Only a few days before her first and only command performance before the voters, we stood with over 100

From CNN: Did God Want You to Get That Mortgage? http://www.time.com/time/business/article/...00.html?cnn=yes

The Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_...alin-debat.html

Keeping in mind Andrew Sullivan is a conservative, you would have done well to include the rest of that piece: "I should just add that I have a pretty good idea of what Obama believes and who he is. Very few candidates in American history have been as candid about both as Obama. I don't agree with all of it, but I see the sense of much of it. Even I see the pragmatism of raising taxes on the successful to Clinton era levels just to keep the government minimaly solvent. And if you don't see the urgency for change from the insane Republicanism of the last eight years, then I'm at a loss to kn

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