Now I’m Outraged!

Just kidding.  But Time‘s blogger Tim McGirk thinks I am, or should be. Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie,”King Kong”, whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he [...]

So I’m Dropping Out of the Seminary…

They found Jesus’ bones.  And those of his wife–Mary Magdalene, just like Dan Brown said!  And his son’s.  Now I can give up all this religious nonsense and get a job where I’ll actually make some money. Well, not really.  Do you realize that these boxes of bones have been lying in storage for twenty-seven [...]

16 Horsepower Lenten Meditation

[I'm going to be gone for a few days, but I thought this song by 16 Horsepower was a fitting meditation for Lent.] The devil’s brand is on my bones An from inside the holy ghost groans Sure as shootin’ the undertaker knows He lays the headstones in endless rows Ye one an all we [...]

H+S

There is nothing better than a little Horn+Swoggled to wake ye up in the morning, boy! Timotheos

Marked for Burial

I commend to you Pastor Petersen on Ash Wednesday. Timotheos

Merck Gives Up Lobbying

Merck has decided to stop lobbying for mandatory administration to little girls of its HPV vaccine.  (My original comment is here.)  Conservative groups opposed the campaign, saying it would encourage premarital sex, and parents’ rights groups said it interfered with their control over their children. At the very least, we could talk about conflict of [...]

Why Can’t the Church Evolve Like Everyone Else?

I’ve never read anything by Rob Bell, but I guess he’s popular.  Astrid Storm thinks his new book God Sex [?] is “kind of fun,” but, as hip as Bell is, he just can’t shake free of that ol’ time relijun.  (This review is eerily similar to another one Storm wrote for the same SoMA [...]

Sharing Genitalia? That’s fine. Sharing Gum? Eeewww!!!

The Rockville Pregnancy Center in Maryland has been kicked out of Montgomery County schools after a parent complained that the group was using a “gum game” to illustrate its talks on sexually transmitted diseases and abstinence.  While the Washington Post article doesn’t actually say, I believe this game involves passing a piece of gum around [...]

Happy Darwin Day!…Now Die

David Klinghoffer writes about the “happy” consequences of evolutionary theory. As of 2007, it is exactly a century since the key turning point in the Darwin-inspired American eugenic movement. In 1907, the state of Indiana achieved the distinction of becoming the world’s first government entity to enforce sterilization of institutionalized “idiots,” “imbeciles,” and other individuals [...]

Follow the Trail of Death

There was lots of talk in Missouri last year about Constitutional Amendment 2, which amended the state constitution so that embryonic stem cell research could never be outlawed in the state.  (If you remember, it takes a simple majority to amend the constitution, but a 2/3 majority to un-amend it.)  There’s always lots of shrill [...]