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“ One evening’s visit, all became clear. She gestured at the blaring TV set. The excruciating grandma-volume was even more excruciating than usual, because she was visiting with her best TV friend. She told me how much she adored Bill O’Reilly.

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Brilliant piece decrying the effect that mad dog O’Reilly has on the world.

FOX: time to fight back | Campaign for America’s Future

“In teh beginning, Invisible Man make univerz. Invisible Earth wuz invisible.
Invisible Man say, “I can has light.” Gots light. Light iz good, iz not
dark. Invisible Man can has day and nite. It be furst.”

via ulc.net

“ The hard work of one does more than the prayers of millions

— Friendly Atheist » Atheist Slogans

“ Fundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns. “Moderate” believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5. “Moderate” atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended. “Militant” atheists: “Oh for pity’s sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?

— The Primate Diaries: Today’s Math Lesson

“ In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.

— “Is Christianity Good for the World?” | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

“ Religion makes you nuts. It makes ordinary people identify with invisible spirits, it turns them into caterwauling flibbertigibbet idiots at any slight to a magic man who has never done a thing for them, and it makes them center their lives around head-dunkings and cracker-eating and gibbering chants to an unheeding phantasm.

— Pharyngula: In which the obnoxious atheist addresses his critics, and makes a polite suggestion to his fellow bloggers

“ The kabuki correction: A non-correction by a member of the pundit class in which the pundit engages in an elaborate dance around the facts of his false reportage and never actually touches on those facts or even admits their existence, and winds up accusing his critics of bad-faith behavior in turn. The dance involves an acknowledgement only of lesser wrongdoing, typically involving a distortion of the original offense, accompanied by assurances of moral superiority on the part of the pundit, and finishes with a bullying turnabout in which the accuser becomes the accused. It usually is performed by a major pundit whose power within the media framework is such that their peers, as well as lesser media figures, are inclined to overlook the offense and accept the “correction” at face value.

— Orcinus

Jesus’ Dickheads (Whatever)

» The Nietzsche Family Circus

“ I also reject the concept of limbo, and I send my kudos to the Vatican for finally changing its dogma that unbaptized infants can’t go to heaven because someone didn’t sprinkle water over their heads. This change truly epitomizes the Roman Catholic Church’s commitment to dealing with humankind’s most important problems. I am sure that every lunatic who actually believed in a deity cruel enough to deny his presence to sinless infants will be greatly relieved by the Church’s change of heart.
— Susan Jacoby

— On Faith: Susan Jacoby: Enough of Heaven and Hell