Archive for April 3rd, 2009


Links For Brains: 4/3/2009

- Mother who allowed a cult to starve her son to death and pack his body into a suitcase pleads guilty; plea agreement includes clause that absolves her of responsibility when if god resurrects him. (In the event of zombie baby, Bigfoot will be charged.)
-  Despite conspiracy nut claims to the contrary, proposed national service system doesn’t force people to stop attending church. (Attention psychiatrists; please consider adding Institutional Persecution Fantasy to DSM-V.)
- The Ten Commandments are fundamentally sectarian, and not actually that important to American law.  (Especially since covetousness is inherent to capitalism.)
- Bush administration FDA ignored science, abused approval process to serve religious ideals when it refused over-the-counter distribution of Plan B contraceptive. (Because you’re all whores, and the only way to stop you being whores is to give you babies to raise.)