… I just wish your name was anything but “Palin.”
Because the spotlight that shines on you — because of your name — is the same one that shines on two-headed kittens, and Jessica Simpson. The spotlight that says “Oh, look, all you people sitting there with really nothing better to do, and no mind to figure out what you might be doing, here’s something SUUWEEET!!!!”
Bristol Palin is now a blogger.
Yes, THAT Bristol Palin. Continue reading “Oh, Kid, I Wish You The Best …”
Man, the ads we get here at FtB. My understanding is that the service that places these things gets progressively better at targeting them to the reader audience over time. I continue to hope that’s true. If the whole thing works on nothing but keywords, and if atheist bloggers frequently mention worship and God and Jesus – in the making of jokes if nothing else – then readers here will have to grin and bear a LOT of ads that should rightly be targeted at the goddy. We’re like a Jewish site that deals with Holocaust issues getting ads from skinhead clubs because the words “swastika” and “Hitler” come up frequently. Continue reading “Madison Avenue Jesus”
Sigh.
One of my good, old friends from Texas sent me an email. If you’ve ever gotten one of those multiply-forwarded Christian thingies, you know what it looks like. Letters half and inch high on my screen. Every paragraph a different color. Comic Sans typeface. Yeah, like this: Continue reading “Jesus by Mail! (email, anyway)”
This has probably been out there for a while, but I’m pretty sure it’s the first time *I* have seen it.
The Vatican has a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel.
You can mouse around it. The navigation is weird, but if you work at it, you can see all of it. You can also zoom in and out with your mouse’s scroll wheel or the Shift and Ctrl keys.
A couple of thoughts: Continue reading “Tits and Ass and Weenies, Oh Myyyy”
One of our human failings is that there are plenty of things we can know intellectually without feeling them viscerally.
You can go to a dozen funerals, and not be very deeply touched by it all, until someone you really love dies. You can read or hear about the Holocaust in high school history class, and even see pictures of death camp inmates, and not really have any least idea about what the whole thing means until you walk through the Holocaust Museum, holding the card of a little kid who was sucked into the horrible maw of it, touring through the nightmare exhibits and waiting to see whether YOUR child lived or died. Continue reading “A Magnitude of Horror, Inhumanly High”
The National Day of … huugh … (sorry, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth) Prayer is this May 3.
Wikipedia explains the event this way:
The National Day of Prayer (36 U.S.C. § 119) is an annual day of observance held on the first Thursday of May, designated by the United States Congress, when people are asked “to turn to God in prayer and meditation”.
Fortunately — man, talk about your happy coincidence! — there’s also a National Day of Reason on the same day. I say fortunate not only because a federal judge declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional … Continue reading “May 3: National Day of This and That”
According to a BBC story, Great Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority concluded that a certain downloadable leaflet was misleading. Healing on the Streets (HOTS), the group distributing the misleading message, was banned from spreading it.
The claim?
God can heal you. Continue reading “Church Claims God Heals, Gov’t Heels God Claims”
KeeeRYST, now what?
It’s not enough that they want to keep us out of public office, or force us to touch Bibles in court, now they want to interfere with our tasty atheist snacks.
Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey (he of the snappy, cutting-edge web page) seems convinced that some food coming into his state contains portions of human fetuses. And he wants to ban it. He has introduced Senate Bill 1418, “An act relating to food; prohibiting the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses …” Continue reading “Shameless Attack on the Atheist Food Supply”
India is up in arms over a joke made by Jay Leno. Judge the heinousness of it yourself:
httpv://youtu.be/WfGlyjY5bJU
Right. In the midst of a very mild joke about Romney’s summer home, Leno flashed a brief image of the Temple of Amritsar, the “Golden Temple,” in the state of Punjab in northern India. Continue reading “Sikh sect sick over lame Leno lark”
