Funny Headlines

“China’s Christianity Boom”

Isn’t that just great? It is to Sullivan. But it’s just more myth sucking to me.

 

Super Adventure Club

It really is ridiculous.

If they actually believed what they preached, they’d all be rotting in Hell and taking it up the hiney against their will.

 

So, I Was Talking To God Today…

…and He told me Joe-Not-Plumber’s crank actually had larger mass than his brain. Before I could get the obligatory “Wow!” out of my mouth, God added that no, Mr. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher had an average-sized crank.

See how this works?

Tip o’ the hat to John at Balloon Juice.

 

Palin Significance

Wow. The hits just keep pouring out of the candidate McCain didn’t bother to vet, so now is being vetted by the media and the blogosphere.

Her car wash business was shut down by Alaska’s division of corporate business and professional licensing.

The McCain camp said she was thoroughly vetted. Everyone else with an informed opinion doesn’t think so.

She was a sports reporter at one time, so is familiar with the idea of “running out the clock,” like with respect to the investigation she’s under for clearly inappropriate, though just as clearly SOP, political influencing.

The father of the Palin grandchild turns out to be a mature, intelligent, educated young man of superior values. I hope someone told him he’s got a wedding planned. And a kid coming. This could be funny to watch play out, but sadly I’m assuming he’ll do what he’s told. Doesn’t seem to have the stones to do otherwise. (Still, there’s hope: He’s a teenager.)

Here she is quoted with a reasonable and rational support of oil drilling, and the Iraq war. A thoughtful, strong woman indeed.

At least we know she’ll respect the “balance of powers” thing allegedly written into our Constitution.

I say the odds of her making it the distance are about 1-3. If she was a man, she’d have already been laughed off the national stage.

We are living in some awfully strange times. There is no way anyone will predict how this turns out with any confidence in my mind until Nov. 5.

Wow. Just, wow.

 

Think Of Him What You Will…

…but my man IOZ can write.

This one about those dirty Muslims, just to get your attention. (It’s about way more than that.)

Right on, IOZ. One of a few money quotes:

One of the curiousities of religionites of all sorts is their breathtaking failure to appreciate the extraordinary scope of their own claims.”

It is in fact hard to find a truly religious person humble about the premises on which they base their world view. From any sort of objective perspective, anyway, and I believe above all that if their is a God He/She is objective, if nothing else. The case religious people make is inevitably, as they say, a bit of a stretch from any fully rational and defensible debate.

I personally think there is a lot more we don’t know than we do. History is pretty clear on this. So, keeping that in mind, I don’t discount religion and God as a viable concept, it’s just that I think if we figure God out, it will be via math and science, and it won’t be as one-size-fits-all, black and white as we might guess using only intuition and indoctrination. And if it ever happens it will be, oh, a million years from now.

Update: 72 virgins? This one is near and dear to my heart since I work in Corporate America, where we predict the future down to dollars, which not only me but my boss laugh at on a regular basis. So, whaddaya mean “72?” I hear it is 73, and someone on the inside told me 71.

Uh, yeah. Whatever you say.

 

Atrios Under Performs His Own Special Brevity!

He’ll pay for this one in the conservative press.

He forgot to include Huck, who just recently compared gay people to people who prefer their sex with animals, and called for Constitutional Amendments (great thanks to Josh for the twofer) to bring us more in line with God, presumably the one Huckabee believes in.

Yo, Huck, just wait until the Catholics or *gasp* Hindus/Buddhists/Muslims take charge!  Way to think, “long term.”  Obviously, you’re a true visionary.

Since we know one of the other major religions will get a POTUS before a declared atheist does.