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National Day Of Wasted Breath

May 1st, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

Dear Little Bald Bastard,
How are you going to celebrate the national day of Prayer?
- Belief/relief

Dear Belief/relief,
In the classic Christian tradition of co-opting other people’s holidays (and crotch-punching the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause), U.S. evangelicals have managed to shove poor, neglected May Day 2008 aside in favor of a federally sponsored day for people of faith to beseech their favorite deity. This putatively ecumenical event has been entirely hijacked by evangelical Christians, led by Focus on The Family’s Shirley Dobson. Dobson heads the National Day of Prayer Task Force, and requires all of her coordinators to sign a statement explicitly stating belief that Jesus was both a ghost AND a zombie.

I’m going to spend my day like I spend any other. I’ll be angry that the rights of those who opt out of the supernatural aren’t as important as those of believers. I’ll be appalled at how tolerance of diverse faiths doesn’t apply to people who place their faith in the natural rather than the fantastic. I’ll be aghast at this country’s sad, greasy slide toward outright theocracy. Most of all, I’ll wish I was surprised by any of it.

[x-posted from Ask The Little Bald Bastard]

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Links For Brains: 7/31/2008

July 31st, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy
  • Six years after being pulled from the market by the FDA, Nicotine Water is back in stores. (The new line includes a homeopathic version, consisting of a bottle of water that was in the same room with a pack of cigarettes for about five minutes.)
  • A Federal Court has ruled that, no matter how hard they believe it, Presidential aids don’t have blanket immunity from Congressional subpoenas. (Apparently it takes 93 pages to say IMMUNITY: NOT YOURS. Claims of blanket immunity from cooties are still unverified.)
  • I’m going to use another bullet to point out that this ruling is three licks from the center of useless. It only addresses (and rejects) the assertion of across-the-board immunity for Presidential advisers. It avoids analysis of any specific claims of immunity that the defendants, Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten, might assert. 93 pages, to essentially tell the White House to try again with a different strategy.
  • New “exercise pills” mimic the effects of genetically enhanced health in mice. (In the future, being stranded on a desert island and eating your friends to survive won’t go straight to your hips.)
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I’m Praying for YOU! (Part I)

August 1st, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

“I’m praying for you,” or “you and your family are in my prayers.” They’ve become the all-too familiar refrain of people who want to do or say something meaningful to someone in crisis, but don’t have the desire or the knowledge to actually do anything.

Admittedly, when one faces a deadly disease (or sees someone close to them go through it), there isn’t much you can actively do to get well. You can follow doctor’s orders, you can try to enjoy life, you can do any number of things to take your mind off of the impact that the disease is having, and will have on the rest of your life. For those who don’t know how to do anything else, there’s prayer.

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My class participation grade is REALLY going to suck.

My class participation grade is REALLY going to suck.

October 30th, 2008

Take THAT, inanimate object!

Take THAT, inanimate object!

January 12th, 2009

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