This is difficult to watch.  I enjoy the made up words almost as much as I enjoy the looks on the faces of some of the contestants as they try to figure out what the most correct thing to say is.  Most of them fail in that task pretty miserably.

“Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America — not in China or North Korea,” he said. “In those countries, government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what the very definition of ‘family’ and ‘marriage’ means.”

Archbishop Timothy Dolan, demonstrating just how irrelevant the Catholic Church has become
Artifacts from the field:  A poster for a Christian-themed fundraiser hangs in my building at curent.  I enjoy the fact that the three bands that will be playing all have names that involve some derivation of “Youth”.  I confess, I don’t know what the significance is, but I feel like the effort required by attendees to keep them straight will be hilarious.

Artifacts from the field:  A poster for a Christian-themed fundraiser hangs in my building at curent.  I enjoy the fact that the three bands that will be playing all have names that involve some derivation of “Youth”.  I confess, I don’t know what the significance is, but I feel like the effort required by attendees to keep them straight will be hilarious.

I just caught this on the DVR.  A brilliant line.  For the record, I have known for a long time that Peter King is a dick.  Well before he became my congressman.   brooklynmutt: Reza Aslan: And by the way, I would just like Peter King to give me one set of data, one research, one statistic that actually proves Muslims aren’t actually cooperating. All he keeps saying is that, “I hear it from people.” Well then, I heard from people that Peter King is a dick. I don’t know it. I don’t have any data. I don’t have any proof. I don’t have any research. I just feel it. I feel it. I feel it’s true.  Stephen Colbert: You know what. Lets hold some hearings. 

I just caught this on the DVR.  A brilliant line.  For the record, I have known for a long time that Peter King is a dick.  Well before he became my congressman.  

brooklynmutt:

Reza Aslan: And by the way, I would just like Peter King to give me one set of data, one research, one statistic that actually proves Muslims aren’t actually cooperating. All he keeps saying is that, “I hear it from people.” Well then, I heard from people that Peter King is a dick. I don’t know it. I don’t have any data. I don’t have any proof. I don’t have any research. I just feel it. I feel it. I feel it’s true. 

Stephen Colbert: You know what. Lets hold some hearings. 

(via brooklynmutt)

“I don’t think we came from monkeys. I think that’s ridiculous. I haven’t seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.”

An example of the kind of comment that would get a broadcaster fired from MY news network.

Kentucky has to be the only state in the union where the Democrat can go after the Republican for a perceived lack of faith.

You have to be a pretty big douche to make me sympathize with Rand Paul. 

Oh, Kentucky, you have a real wealth of options for senate this electoral season!

Highlights From The Nastiest Debate of 2010 (via tpmtv)

I am apparently more religious than 93% of you.

We spend a lot of time in my current grad class talking about religion in education.  Tonight, a student inquired what holiday’s were celebrated by atheists and was somewhat interested when I told her that we celebrate them all.  I further observed that in my experience, the typical atheist that I hang around with knows more than the typical religious person of any particular stripe.  

As if to prove my contention, a student from the class posted a link to the following Pew survey on Religious Knowledge, as given to the general American Public.

14 out of 15 right (PS-  Go fuck yourself, Jonathan Edwards).

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NSFW!

Thankfully, the same free speech that allows racist fuckwits to burn books, also allows hilarious parody ads saying as much!

BURN A QURAN (A Terry Jones/Fred Phelps MOCK Ad by DC Douglas) (via lancebaxter)

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A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.

“The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve,” he said.

“My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that ‘wouldn’t they all be inbred’?”

“But the teacher replied that DNA wasn’t invented then.”

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Second-hand report of a 10-year-old child whupping a Creationist in an argument.

Creationists hijack lessons and teach schoolkids man and dinosaurs walked together | News.com.au