Category Archives: Culture War

Walking Down the Middle of the Road Only Gets You Run Over

Posted on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Keith

David Brooks, having woken up to find the Tea Party he went home with last night is in fact a giant rat king of cretinous lunatics, is attempting to climb out of bed quietly, and as per his usual “moderate” … Continue reading →

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Number Three is Going up Against a Sicilian When Death Is On The Line

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010 by Keith

It doesn’t help our claims that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t modern-day Crusades when the military is using firearms inscribed with Bible verses. In the great and infinite list of bad ideas, this one is pretty much number … Continue reading →

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Heretics of Dune (And Everywhere Else Too)

Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Keith

PZ Myers alerts us to the grasping straws of those dimwitted creationist nincompoops, who, having had their ass handed to them by real scientists, have turned their baleful glare on science fiction authors: Science fiction is intimately associated with Darwinian … Continue reading →

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Uncle Larry and the Thundersmurfs of Pandora

Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 by Keith

John Scalzi reviews Avatar and makes explicit what we already knew: Cameron has enough of a track record that even without seeing this film I pretty much know how it will be: Amazing visually and technically, with a story that … Continue reading →

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NFL to Rush: Do Not Want

Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 by Keith

It amuses me to no end that the NFL, a bunch of rich white men who buy and trade strapping black athletes for fun and profit, do not want to let Rush Limbaugh into their little club because he’s too … Continue reading →

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Brain Spill

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2009 by Keith

Here’s a bunch of links to stuff. I’m dumping them here, so I know where to find it all later. It doesn’t all fit together in any sort of meaningful way, unless it does. Buddha Machine – a little box … Continue reading →

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Not The Tom Payne of Tibet

Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 by Keith

It’s been a while since Obama did anything I could applaud. it’s just too bad this is so inconsequential: The Obama Administration may think its decision to cold shoulder the Dalai Lama on the Tibetan leader’s upcoming trip to Washington … Continue reading →

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Paranoia Suits Him Anyway

Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 by Keith

Bill Donohue doesn’t like, well, much of anything, and now it’s driven him paranoid: Catholic League President Bill Donohue presented a paranoid side of his personality to Fox News Monday morning, declaring that “militant, dogmatic” atheists are “out to get” … Continue reading →

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‘Scuse me While I Whip This Out

Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 by Keith

This has gotten way out of hand. The Birther nonsense was amusing at first, in a surrealist, after dinner game sort of a way. “The president is a secret Muslim from Kenya!” has Andre Breton’s fingerprints all over it. That … Continue reading →

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I Called It! I’m So Sad…

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 by Keith

This makes sense and that is the problem: Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This … Continue reading →

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