Shit. The Religious Right couldn’t have scripted this better: after voting down a draconian anti-abortion law and helping flip control of the Senate to Democrats this past November, South Dakotan voters are now seeing their stem-cell-lovin’ Democratic congressman struck down with “an intracerebral bleed caused by a congenital arteriovenous malformation”.
Senator Tim Johnson had surgery […]

On November 1 British medical journal The Lancet published a series of papers deconstructing global sexual and reproductive health issues, with an emphasis on the subjugation of developing nations to ideologically implacable American policies such as the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Gag Rule. As bleak as the outlook sometimes is, […]

Andrew Sullivan posted a hilarious clip of Richard Dawkins discussing evolution with an increasingly pissy Ted “The Pussyhound” Haggard. Watch as Haggard’s leathery face twists into a grinning mask of hatred and frustration when confronted with scientific facts. Snicker at Haggard’s bitchfit as a surprisingly subdued Dawkins pwns him. Marvel as Haggard takes four male […]

Schadenfreude alert: Richard Dawkins’s foaming atheo-fundie rant, “The God Delusion,” is getting some less-than-glowing reviews from *gasp* prominent liberal intellectuals. The Wired treatment is the most surprising - reporter Gary Wolf spends a couple thousand words trying, really hard, to just give in and throw his lot in with Dawkins & Co, since he (like, […]

Do you want to watch the World Series but find it difficult because you don’t give a rat’s ass who wins? Well, here’s some non-sporting incentive to pick sides: Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, who’s scheduled to start Game Four tonight, will appear in an ad to be televised during this evening’s contest urging voters to […]

The New York Times ran a head-scratcher of a piece on Tuesday about the massive tax breaks American Christian churches receive for traditionally secular properties. Basically faith-owned housing developments, gyms, museums, concert venues—anything that could even tenuously be deemed an organ of the ministry—have Congressional carte blanche to snub the IRS and give Joe Taxpayer […]

Coming fast on the heels of his recent non-apology apology, Pope Benedict issued another credibility-enhancing statement late last week, saying that he was considering pulling the plug on one of the Catholic Church’s ridiculous, antiquated, philosophically- and morally-specious doctrines. No, not celibacy for priests. Or fag-hatin’. No, the theological knot in P-Ben’s knickers is limbo: […]

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Harry Potter is THE DEVIL

UPDATE: That sad tome we saw approaching on the radar a few months ago is out, and the reviews are in. (Well, one, anyway.) The verdict? The author’s a smart dude, but the more he publicly obsesses about his bete noir, the closer he veers toward crazy-cat-lady territory.
Or, in simpler terms (via comparison to […]