Quick Hitts

Christian apologist Josh McDowell is angry about the Internet. He claims it destroys faith: “The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have… whether you like it or not.” He’s absolutely [...]

The night after 9/11 I was too pissed and upset to sleep, so I got out of bed and made this, my response to the vile assholes who created this tragedy. Click to Enlarge We responded to the attack by eliminating a substantial portion of our bill of rights. It took us nearly a decade [...]

Alternate Title: Shark Lessons “The funniest thing to a great white shark must be a wounded seal trying to swim to shore, because, where does he think he’s going?”     — Jack Handey It’s fun to mess with Jehovah’s Witnesses who knock on your door, but most people find it difficult to throw them off [...]

This article takes the time to carefully debunk these claims by a fundy anti-choice group. I saw it when some skeptic friends posted it on some social network sites.  They were upeset at the nonsense the fundies were spewing. I look at it a quite differently. This kind of hyperbole is a powerfully good thing. Think about the [...]

We’re always lectured that it’s wrong to celebrate anyone’s death, even the death of evil people.  I disagree.  The world is far better off without him, and that’s worth celebrating. I predict Muslims all over the world will riot over this.  I also predict Seattle will get a lot of rain this summer and Paris [...]

I had some good friends visiting, a couple I truly loved.  I told them, “You can eat anything in the house, anything at all, except the apples in the fridge.”  Then I left them alone for a while. I came back to find they’d eaten the apples, and were hiding from me in my wife’s [...]

It’s time to put the blame for the threatened Quran burning squarely where it belongs: on the media. The “pastor” at the center of this nonsense has a congregation of about 50 people.  No one had paid much attention to him before this, although there is documentation proving he’s a worthless whack job.  The appropriate [...]