Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
Another year, another apology.
You see, as part of my plan to get into the movie reviewing businesss, I saw Avatar 3-D. And, like thousands of other moviegoers, I developed a severe case of the Avatar Blues, partly out of the realization that male-pattern baldness was going to preclude me from ever hair-bonding with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
I hate politics. The other people on my bus would probably be surprised to hear that, given how every morning they have to listen to me rant about how our weak-spined representatives can’t even stand up to the cosmetic surgery lobby, and every afternoon they have to listen to me rant about how Jane [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2009
Next time someone starts lecturing you on how “you can’t be good without god” (or on the similar “you can’t be moral without Mohammed,” “you can’t be ethical without Eos,” or “you can’t be virtuous without Vishnu”), you might want to let them know about Reverend Tim Jones:
Father Jones, 42, was discussing Mary and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2009
Many years and several jobs ago, I had a coworker named Beth. This was before the advent of “harassment laws” and “codes of conduct” and “HR departments,” and so our workplace banter encompassed then-controversial topics like Monica Lewinsky and John Wayne Bobbitt and Amy Fisher and Jeff Gillooly and religion.
One bright December morning, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2009
If you’re a conoisseur of religious propaganda like I am, you quickly notice certain tropes. One of my favorites is the “insert god into non-god-related current event as tortured theological metaphor” trick, which pops up all the time.
Today’s example is Beliefnet’s “Crashing God’s State Dinner,” which uses the antics of the party-crashing Salahis to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2009
When I was in fifth grade, those of us in the “gifted” program spent a couple of days learning about puppeteering. We created our own minarets (mine was called “Andy,” probably in honor of Andy Kaufman) and scripted a puppet show about the LA Summer Olympics and staged it for the “non-gifted” students, who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2009
A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband, had her hours at work cut, and moved into an apartment, says an image of Gallagher she sees on her iron has reassured her that “life is going to be good.”
Mary Jo Coady first noticed the image on Sunday when she walked into her daughter’s room.
The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009
There are too many laws these days. In some places you can’t cross the street without breaking the law. Other places you’re a criminal if you buy too much cold medicine. And there’s a global push for new laws against blasphemy.
Which is why I’m actually excited about the new religious push [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2009
After a lot of reflection, I’ve decided not to wade into the controversy over the Fort Hood Massacre. Sure, shooter Nidal Hasan appears to have been a devout Muslim who shouted “Allahu Akbar” while he was mowing down his colleagues and who had deep respect for Anwar al-Awlaki, the spiritual adviser to the 9/11 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2009
I apologize for not having posted in so long, but I’ve been working on a top secret project with NASA.
You see, thanks to a combination of disingenuous Mayans, misunderstandings involving the Temples of Syrinx, the teachings of self-styled “gurus” like “the guy who killed all those people in a sweat lodge to unleash [...]
