Stick A Pitchfork In Her

I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar and I didn’t know it. I mean, there was a little blood there and stuff like that. We went to …

Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses?

Wow, you know the Teabagger crazy train has really run off the rails when Karl Rove gets in a fight with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh over his dissing of their party’s candidate for a critical senate seat. Rove told a devastated Hannity, who has been singing senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell‘s praises, that she doesn’t evidence basic character traits like “rectitude, …

Squirrley Islamophobia & The Rapture Rupture (Update)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Islamophobiapalooza www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Here’s a couple of clips from last night’s Daily Show that capture the absurdities of the current wave of Isalmophobia sweeping the US, and the desire among both Christians and Muslims for bringing this sorry world to an …

Gozer Gingrich v. The Kenyan Anticolonialist

Ghostbuster’s Gozer the Traveller taking the form of the dreaded Gangrene Gingrich Not much time for writing today, so forgive this extensive cut and paste job, which pretty much covers the arguments surrounding 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s latest lurch to the right to capture what’s left of the party’s base, aka the Teabaggers. HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the headline …

Afutilestan (IX) XI

On the ninth anniversary of 9/11 (the day that America became unhinged and ushered in a lucrative national security state), we remember the innocent victims and the heroes who lost their lives trying to save them and others. Seven thousand miles away, a hundred thousand American troops and another hundred thousand plus private contractors and NATO troops are supposedly fighting …

Turning Back The Hands Of Time

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Weekend at Burnies www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Debating the nuances of evolutionary religion While the context is the Mad Pastor Terry Jones‘ proposed  burning of the Quran this Saturday, Jon Stewart and John Oliver take a peek under the hood of  what The …

Open Cordoba House (Update)

Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain If I were to write a script that pitted a protagonist who spent his life building bridges between peoples of diverse faiths and cultures against  a hate filled, bigoted antagonist dedicated to tearing them down,  I couldn’t find a better ‘ripped from the headlines’ duo to base it on than Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf …