Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

Perception is Reality

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Via Dogwood Tales, I came across I-Spot Annoying Fanboys. It’s a “humorous” look at the people you know who are a little too deep into their lifestyle choices. I put “humorous” in quotation marks only because it’s quite uneven. Some jokes work; others miss completely. They’re equally spotty on their facts. [...]

Pick Up Some Meat At Fudd’s

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

I’m making stew tonight, but we’re low on ingredients. Could you do me a favor and pick up some meat at Fudd’s on the way home?

(From Suicide Food)

(BTW, This picture makes me think that we should be worshipping Bugs Bunny instead of Jesus. That way we wouldn’t need to rely on transubstantiation [...]

The Great Textbook War

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

I heard a great documentary on public (read: socialist) radio tonight. It’s called “The Great Textbook War”. It’s about a controversy in Kanawha County, West Virginia in 1974 about some new school textbooks. You can find the documentary’s download link in the sidebar of their website.
The whole thing sounds eerily contemporary. [...]

One Guideline for Modesty

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

We’ve been ignoring BJ from the American Decency Association for a little too long, so I decided to check up on him. It turns out he decided to let somebody else say something stupid for him this week. He refers us to the blog of a Christian publisher named Michael Hyatt, who wrote [...]

Here Today, Gonorrhea Tomorrow

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

(Image by ecastro)
I actually swiped the title of today’s post from Tony Perkins of the Fundie Research Council. It may be the first thing he has ever written that I actually approve of. Just the title, that is. The article itself is nothing to clap about. He writes:
According to the most [...]

Bad Fundies!

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

(Image from Comically Vintage)
I’ve spent the last hour looking for a good fundie “news” article to rip apart. I’ve come up empty-handed. This is happening to me more and more often. Everything they’re writing these days is so derivative. It’s all the same old crap.
“Contraception is abortion!”
“America was founded by and [...]

San Francisco Green Festival

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Last Saturday, I went to the San Francisco Green Festival. This is my story.
The experience actually began as I was walking from BART to the Concourse Exhibition Center. I saw this spray-painted onto an overpass support:

Why do people do that? Is their message so important that they have to deface public property? [...]

Keep the Government Out of Our Lives! Keep Marijuana Illegal!

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Fundie-run anti-government “news” site OneNeuronNow has published another one of their fair and balanced articles, this one telling us that an initiative to legalize marijuana in California has qualified for the November ballot.
It’s comical to see OneNeuronNow run an article about teabaggers screaming about protecting personal freedoms, and then the very next article talks about [...]