hell’s handmaiden

… an “Assume the Position DVD“. Offer ends at midnight.

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I’ll eventually get back to writing posts of my own, but for now Things I’m Getting Tired Of Hearing from Spanish Inquisitor.

First: Atheism Is A Religion.

No it’s not.

Things I’m Getting Tired Of Hearing

The Inquisitor needn’t go further than that quip as a minimum effort at actually thinking pretty much closes the case. But the Inquisitor does continue, perhaps realizing as I have that ‘a minimum effort at actually thinking’ is asking quite a lot. The rabidly faithful need things spelled out.

Second: Righteous

Random Thoughts, Notes, & Incidents: Carnival of the Decline of Democracy - Edition 2.22

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Greta Christina has the latest Carnival of the Godless. She writes:

So you thought you’d take an innocent visit to the Carnival of the Godless? See the godless sights, ride the godless rides, make yourself pleasantly sick on godless cotton candy?

Your visit is about to take a ghastly turn. Hand in your tickets, step through these gates, and abandon all hope. You are about to enter…

Carnival of the Godless #78: Haunted House Edition

hmmmm… godless cotton candy…

Browse the rest of Greta Christina’s blog while you are there. It is really very good. Hope you aren’t bashful though.

I don’t have the time to generate a post of my own– with any substance, anyway– but that doesn’t mean I can’t pass along something fun.

It’s important to note somewhere that right-wing rhetoric has gotten more snarly and bloodthirsty over the past few weeks, especially about the rapturous prospect of a really stupid and destructive attack on Iran, and about the need to repress the treasonous, murdering saboteurs (i.e. people like us) who are sapping America’s strength with their vile and cowardly lies, and so forth. This might be as good a place as any to make that observation in plain words — rather than contextually, as with the earlier posts down the page.