Run, Sarah, Run! No, really.

Rah Rah Rah! Go Jeezis! And Exxon!

Sarah Palin is a lunatic. If she ever achieves a measurable level of political power, she'll be a dangerous lunatic. She's closely affiliated with a bat-shit crazy evangelical group plotting to take over the world for Jesus (using brilliant tactics like assigning Prayer Warriors to every street in Newark, [...]

Is the nightmare over yet?

In years past, when I visited the UK (which happens to be where I am now), I'd tell people where I was from, and they'd exclaim, "Alaska?!" as though they didn't realize you could actually get here from there, and then they'd ask one of a handful of questions:

Is it really like Northern Exposure?
Was it [...]

Wake up America! Palin/McCain are fucking AWFUL!

OK, enough of the Sarah Palin crap … Obama might have only been talking about McCain's policies when he said "lipstick on a pig," but I'm not. I'm talking about McCain's entire candidacy … and as far as I'm concerned, that's all Palin was: Lipstick for a pig of a presidential candidate. And it's not [...]

Logic : religious nuts :: Bowel control : babies?

What is it with the religious nuts this week?! From a completely apolitical, secular barter/trade email list being bombarded by the forces of righteousness, to a troll on an old post who took the 'debate' to email, all of a sudden the bizarro arguments are everywhere.
In response to the email list Bible Humpers who emailed [...]

Christian Nation?! I don't fucking think so.

OK, about a half-dozen posts ago, I said I was writing a more detailed post about America's status as a Christian Nation. Then real life smacked me upside the head, and long, involved posts got put on hold for a while. Finally, here we are.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT A FUCKING CHRISTIAN NATION*. [...]