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Video: Pale Blue Films; Music: Mogwai

The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point [...]

Have I Mentioned How Much I Love Sarah Silverman? Because I Totally Do. Love Sarah Silverman, I Mean.

After witnessing dozens of people wiping handkerchiefs, staggeringly cheesy dimestore trinkets and, I do believe, their panties on The Stone of Unction in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, I can’t help but totally love the latest from the Hebrew Badgirl:

Video: Sarah Silverman, “Sell the Vatican, Feed the World”

I Can’t Unfriend You Because We’ve Never Actually Been Friends

Dear Evangelical Christians…

(Courtesy Glark – thanks, Dave!)

Dream Machine

Though I think religion is total horseshit, I deeply respect the religious experience.

By that I mean that we humans have a peculiar physiology and psychology which can lend itself to certain perceptions which we casually describe as “religious” and, because these perceptions and experiences have yet to be scientifically studied in any significant fashion, we’re [...]

So We Did Do The Pride Thing in Vancouver, After All

There really wasn’t much discussion about it.

Though Champ and I never really did The Pride Thing in Toronto — at least, not together, and not for the past few years — we didn’t need to really discuss whether (or not) we were going to take in Vancouver’s festivities . We just knew, y’know? I mean, [...]

Why Hasn’t God Destroyed Canada Yet?

Webcomic artist Patrick Farley nails the American same-sex marriage debate in graphical form:

Patrick Farley on America’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate

More evolved societies — the ones which considered the pink arguments somewhere between “wrong” and “ludicrous” before granting full marriage equality to gays and lesbians — must look at the U.S. flavour of this debate as [...]

Fingering Fox

Laying blame. Hard. Where it belongs.

Olbermann:

Video: Keith Olbermann Fingers Bill O’Reilly, Bernard Goldberg and Fox News as Terrorists

I can’t go near comments sections online today. The evil perpetrated by Dr. George Tiller’s murderer is eclipsed by the stupid, hateful, pig-ignorant, seething, antediluvian, subhuman christianists who climb over themselves to justify, rationalize and even applaud [...]

Say No to Same Same [sic] Sex Marraige [sic] (Sick)

Well, the lying idiots at Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage — the group which is, apparently, against more people marrying — has come out with another ad filled with lies, misrepresentations and, as an added bonus, a thinly-veiled appeal to race-based bigotry. But the level of intelligence operating behind these vile ads is laid [...]

Clown College

Hebiclens / WMxdesign has some fun with the scary clowns of the Republican party:

The Semi-Final Frontier

They’re all gonna laugh at you, Carrie.

This Week in Stupidity, after the jump (warning: SFW audio will auto-start)…

YVR2: Rank Amateurs

From Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living Survey:

Top 5 Cities (Wordwide, Quality of Life)

Vienna, Austria (1st)
Zurich, Switzerland (2nd)
Geneva, Switzerland (3rd )
Vancouver, Canada (tied 4th)
Auckland, New Zealand (tied 4th)

Top 5 Cities (Worldwide, Infrastructure)

Singapore, Singapore (1st)
Munich, Germany (2nd)
Copenhagen, Denmark (3rd)
Tsukuba, Japan (4th)
Yokohama, Japan (5th)

Top 5 Cities (North America, Quality of Life)

Vancouver, Canada (tied [...]

A Good Bye

I could’ve done with a little less goddiness — okay, a lot less — but it’s not like it came as a surprise. What surprised was how well they tied together elements from the past few seasons which seemed at the time to be overtly random. Little television comes close to perfection, but Battlestar Galactica [...]

Green on Thursday #88: Α Δ Φ

So, let’s say you’re walking down the street and you hear Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” blaring from a huge house. And let’s say you’re at a university. Say… the University of Chicago. And let’s say the big house is a frat house. And let’s say that as you walked by this big frat house [...]

Not Kosher

File under: The Unending Capacity of American Christianists to Trivialize Their Own Faith and, Not Uncoincidentally, Look Like Totally Retarded Idiots:

CRESAPTOWN, Md.  —  You’ve heard of kosher salt? Now there’s a Christian variety.

Retired barber Joe Godlewski of Cresaptown, Md., says he got tired of hearing television chefs recommend kosher salt, so he did something about [...]

Holyword or Bused

Man, when DeadRobot name-checks you and your favourite bodily function, you’d better pay attention:

Via Blamblog comes a little gadget that BStewart will pee his pants over… The Atheist Bus Sign Generator

(sign generated by DeadRobot)

(For the record, I totally did pee my pants.)

See also: this and this and this.

ADDENDUM:

(inspired by Rick)