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Damned Atheists (Continued)

Not that I haven’t mentioned the Atheist Bus Campaign before — twice — but I was delighted to hear that today the Toronto Transit Commission has approved a series of bus adverts identical to those popping up around the world:

I’m really happy to see this happening, though its genesis — heh — in England [...]

Pack Up Your Show Tunes and Leather Harnesses: It’s Over

From the Associated Press:

Vatican: ‘Homosexual behavior’ on decline

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Vatican office that evaluated U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries says the schools have made improvements in halting what they call “homosexual behavior” among students.

The Vatican also says seminaries are doing well in teaching about celibacy and are generally effective in screening candidates for the priesthood.

The [...]

ALL. ARE. EQUAL.

“…all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”
– President Barack Obama, 20 January 2009

The man gives good speech, that’s for damn sure.

History.

Hope.

And without giving us even an hour to grow cynical and jaded, within moments of President Obama’s swearing-in, WhiteHouse.gov posted this [...]

And on the Last Day…

A little bit of cathartic bile which conveniently side-steps the fact that its subject is merely a figurehead representing the frighteningly vast, vile, rotting, greedy, stupid, smug, stupid and stupid Christofascist right wing of American sociopolitical discourse.

Still, it’s sweet. And you’ll want to listen to this using headphones if you’re at work.

Audio NSFW.

Cupboards

Instruction Manual for Life:

(From TheraminTrees — whose catalog of videos is bracingly intellectual and downright clever — via RichardDawkins.net)

Insignificance

This spectacular photo, just one of the spectacular photos featured every day at Astronomy Photo of the Day, is a mosaic of photos taken by the Cassini Spacecraft while in the shadow of Saturn.

(Click image for bigger version, click here for biggerer version)

From APotD:

In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini [...]

Dear Bush/Cheney…

FFF
(Public Image Ltd., from Album (aka Compact Disc/Cassette, 1986))

Farewell my fairweather friend.
Senseless reasoning.
You believe what you want to believe.
Farewell my fairweather friend.
On you no one can depend.
Bad times, now they must end.
Whatever you want it to be, for you that’s what it will be.
Honesty to you is arbitrary.
Logic is lost [...]

A: A Desk

Q: What do you call that thing between the dick and the asshole?

Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter battle for The Biggest Bigot Award

Bigot Pride

Bigotry Wears a Wal-Mart Top

Two things caught my eye first thing this morning. First was the significant rise in the number of visitors to my Yes on 8 Endorsers page, a list of those folks who parted with hard-earned cash to take away the legal rights of same-sex couples in California.

And the other was [...]

Bus Route Expansion

With almost precision timing, fascinating correspondence with Sheepy — he of the intellectually- and artistically- (as well as spiritually-)motivated faith which also manages to make complete sense to me — arrived this morning (with material to which I cannot do justice until fully-digested) at almost exactly the same moment as news that Britain’s (previously-mentioned) [...]

Green on Thursday #82: Christmas Day Forecast — Hot Flurries

CNN weather guy Rob Marciano managed for a few weeks last year to become an icon for that particular corner of the American right wing which somehow feels global warming is more a political issue than environmental. Finding fault with a couple of Al Gore’s points in An Inconvenient Truth, Marciano provided knee-jerk know-nothings with [...]

Because Believing in Alien Overlords Is NOT Insane, Right?

Guess which building this charming truck is parked outside?

I’m kind of loving the Church of Scientology these days, and the reason is fairly obvious: they’re the thin wedge which reveals the wholesale ridiculousness of believing in anything without evidence. Think I’m kidding? They not only do violence to the scientific definition of evidence, but their [...]

Day Without Lies

Sure, it’s supposed to be Day Without a Gay but, for a variety of reasons — some of which I discussed here — I was at my exceedingly gay job at my exceedingly gay employer until I cut out to be exceedinly gay with my exceedingly gay boyfriend. We’re drinking exceedingly gay eggnoggs right now, [...]

Holy War

Due to this week’s illness, I’m a little late to the party, but not too late to comment on the rising furor over Marc Shaiman and a star-studded cast of pals’ clever and funny “Prop 8: The Musical”:

With lightning speed, the incredibly Village Peopley-looking “Dr.” Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission issued the [...]

San Francisco, Thirty Years Later

Harvey Milk, 1978

Thirty years ago today, Dan White, a former member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, emptied a handgun into Mayor George Moscone. White calmly left Moscone’s office, reloaded his weapon, walked to the Supervisors’ offices and pulled former colleague (and rival) Harvey Milk aside with a “Harvey, can I see you a minute?”

A [...]