LOLZ: Chuck Norris vs. the Secular Student Alliance
I still can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that Chuck Norris has somehow become a “cultural commentator”. Seriously? Chuck frakking Norris? This dude? He’s morphed from an ass-kickin’ action “star” (and “Action Jeans” spokesman!) into a creationist Tea-Partier. His rambling, cranky, and hyper-Christian posts at WorldNetDaily are always hilariously awful, but today’s is [...]
Girl power!
Yesterday, Australia elected their first female prime minister. Yay! I don’t know enough about Australian politics to make any sort of substantive comments about the election (I should know more- I’m working on that), but I do know that this quote makes me happy: “I think if there’s one girl who looks at the TV [...]
Not one, not two, but THREE Helen Lovejoys!
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you examples #570246279347, #570246279348, and #570246279349 of religious individuals attempting to reframe even the mildest and gentlest criticism of their beliefs into something extremely offensive, aggressive, and hostile. The Freedom From Religion Foundation recently started running a lighthearted and non-confrontational advertisement on Chicago city buses: The ads are fun and [...]
Cringeworthy hyperbole
Comedy Central is currently developing a show called JC, which they describe as: A half-hour animated show about JC (Jesus Christ) wanting to escape his father’s enormous shadow and to live life in NYC as a regular guy. A lot has changed in 2000 years and he is the ultimate fish out of water. Meanwhile [...]
If you’ll pardon me for saying so, sir, it seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncopated 5/4 time signature
Bertie and Jeeves ponder “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: Bertie: This Irving Berlin fellow seems to have come a bit of a cropper here, Jeeves. Jeeves: Sir? Bertie: This new song of his. Too many words, not enough notes. Jeeves: If you’ll pardon me for saying so, sir, it seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncopated [...]
Donohue + Palin = Total BFFs!
Oh GOODIE! Look who has just shown her gosh darn folksy support for Bill Donohue’s Mother Teresa/Empire State Building “WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN OF DOOOOM!”: Now I’m picturing Donohue and Palin as the heads of a new Legion of Doom. Perhaps they could recruit Zombie Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, Ann Coulter, [...]
Sex and the City = FAIL
I don’t throw the word “loathe” around lightly. But I loathe all things Sex and the City. Perhaps that’s because there are few things I find more boring or unpleasant than shopping, an activity that the show’s characters seem to find endlessly thrilling and fulfilling. Or perhaps it’s because, as exemplified by Carrie’s columns and [...]
Fred Flintstone and I have something in common!
Little things can sometimes be really cheering. For example, squeezable grape jelly!: I hadn’t seen squeezable jelly until a few days ago, although I imagine it’s been around for a while. Fun! & Apparently, Fred Flintstone shares my fondness for grape jelly (Welch’s even!): (From 1963) Fred’s REALLY hitting that jelly hard! Whoa! Slow down, [...]
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