- Richard Cohen on Rachel Maddow – Cohen is a “former gay” who is an advocate of so-called conversion therapy. Turns out he has ties to Uganda where a law that would punish gayness with the death penalty has been proposed.
- Kent Hovind’s doctoral dissertation – From Trevor.
- Colorado cow mutilations baffle ranchers, cops, UFO believer – From Mikey.
- Fighting the war on Christmas – A great response to one of those awful email forwards. From James K.Â
- Cute Animal Friday! An atheist LOLkitten from Glen. Cute endangered animals from Steve. And here’s a bunch of cute chicks.
Ha, I’d never seen that lolcat before. I love it.
That axolotl salamander is not cute at all. It is creepy due to neoteny. It even has the weird creepy gills and all. *shudder*
Oh, and that lolcat is just awesome. ^_^
@IBY: But it just wants your love!
I saw Cohen on Rachel, she pretty much ripped him a new one! U Go Grrrl!!!
Oh lordy… Tell me that dissertation is fake. It’s written so poorly. It could be in the simple english wiki site. Also, isn’t a doctoral dissertation supposed to be something fresh and new? From my skimming it, these are all the same arguments that are always used, and I mean verbatim. Though, thinking about it, this could just be because Hovind has enjoyed periods of popularity in Xian circles.
I love that “War on Christmasâ„¢” response. Particularly the ending. Very poignant. Really brings it home.
If I was an alien I’d totally want cow innards.
Hey there’s earth! Lets stop by for a quick bite. I’ll have one cow anus. What do you want? An ear? Ok lets go get some.
NOMNOMNOM.
Begin Threadjack: There’s a story on the front page of the NY Times about British libel laws (I saw it on the print version). No to time to read it. End Threadjack
In the skies o’er the Earth the stars were a-shining
and all o’er the nation fundies were whining:
“Surely, we’re victims of discrimination
if non-christians are allowed to live in our nation!
Why can’t they have the courtesy to belive as we do
Isn’t that right guaranteed by amendment one or two?”
(I may have diverged from the meter a bit)
“Cute chicks?” Hardly. A few of them look like they’ve been thru a weed whacker. Anyway, that’s not what I was hoping for. Those links can be so misleading. ;-)
Rachel Maddow, reading from Richard Cohen’s book: “Factors that contribute to homosexual desire: Divorce, death of a parent, adoption, religion, race.â€
Cohen: “Race? That’s not in there…â€
Maddow: “Yes it is, page 75 of your book, with your name on the cover…â€
WTF?
@Garrison22: My wife and I were laughin’ our asses off during the entire interview. ;D
Cohen: “You took that out of context!”
Maddow: “Yup.”
That was sublime. There’s no chance that anyone in Uganda would take passages “out of context” and… I dunno… draft a kill-the-gays law or something. Right?
Right?
@Garrison22: That was my favorite part of the interview. She’s reading right out of his book and he denies that it’s in there. You absolutely could not script a moment like that and have anyone believe it.
Inappropriate comment of objectification: I have a raging crush on Rachel Maddow and I don’t care who knows it, including my husband.
Concering the “war on christmas”, has anyone gotten an email about “How Jesus is better than Santa”?
Seeing the poem that was written, I bet the author could do a number with that email.
In the meantime, I wonder since when were ledgendary figures in competition with each other?
Jesus let himself get nailed to a cross by Romans. Santa by contrast, lives at the North Pole, a long way from the reach of crucifix-happy Romans. That means that Santa is smarter than Jesus at the very least.
@Tiki_Idyll:
PZ Myers has verified that dissertation as matching the one in the NCSE offices.
I never thought I’d say this, but Hovind’s writing makes the crap that Ray Comfort dribbles out look like the works of William Freakin’ Shakespeare.