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February 2015

February 06, 2015

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 19: ‘Email MacGyver’

A more observant passenger on Rayford Steele's plane might've noticed that no one with alcohol...

February 05, 2015

Swearing on a stack of Bibles: Pennsylvania’s stupid, unconstitutional law

Pennsylvania's law requiring witnesses to swear on the Christian Bible is blatantly unconstitutional -- a...

February 04, 2015

She’s working double shifts to keep us fed

Vatican Guy No. 1: "How should we advertise our all-male conference on women?" Vatican Guy...

February 04, 2015

You’ll need a written excuse from your vet

Newton's Third Law of Sanctimony; UPS wants to charge extra for taunting you with stickers...

February 03, 2015

I carry it all to my candy guru

Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey misconstrues equal protection. Critiquing modesty culture: an introductory linkiography....

February 01, 2015

Superb Owl Sunday

With a member of their tribe starring in the big half-time show, you'd think evangelicals...

February 01, 2015

Sunday WTF?

"So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold their...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 18: ‘My favorite character so far’

'We never hear again from the two-dimensional "drunk businessman." But unlike Buck, Hattie or Rayford...

January 29, 2015

You’d be surprised what you can get used to

The Bryan Fischer problem can't be fixed just by changing his job title. Skull found...

January 28, 2015

The Second Seal: How can a permanent fixture be a prediction of the future?

But whatever you make of the rest of the book, I just can't see how...

January 28, 2015

Here’s to us all who were born too late

When Andrew Sullivan first started blogging 15 years ago, there were no offshore wind farms...

January 28, 2015

Religion, justice, the good, and Brenda Russell

Is religion the source of goodness and justice? Or is religion, rather, a formidable obstacle...

January 28, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (1.28)

Panti Bliss on what it is that homophobes are afraid of. Rachel L. Martin on...

January 27, 2015

You want to smother in all that hate?

When my brain is fried, I give you capybaras. Plus: What part of "Woody Guthrie"...

January 27, 2015

Instead of Rayford Steele talking about abortion, here is a video of a snowy egret riding a capybara

I like capybaras. They are gentle herbivores. Like humans, capybaras have lost the ability to...

January 26, 2015

I can’t take the thought of you here

January is here, but we're already getting ready for spring. The Saudi monarchy is rotten...

January 26, 2015

Where is our 2016 GOP/’Too Many Cooks’ mashup?

I realize it's only January of 2015 and next year's presidential election still seems a...

January 25, 2015

Sunday WTF?

"Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons."

January 23, 2015

This is not your ordinary hurdy-gurdy man

It's never too late to learn. An Ohio mayor creates a No-Go Zone outside of...

January 23, 2015

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 17: ‘This ain’t science fiction’

"Communications and computer technology were rather different eight years ago from the way they are...

January 22, 2015

You buy prestige and spread decline

Some Thursday evening links, including: RIP Marcus Borg; that time when Jesus beat up Jesse...

January 21, 2015

Stairways circle back to where you’ve been

I'm glad to see Anthony Foxx is still transportation secretary. The closer you look, the...

January 20, 2015

This is the sound of the four walls falling in

Biblical place names and the biblically illiterate; a holiday to celebrate treason in defense of...

January 19, 2015

Rule No. 1 and Amendment No. 1: One shouldn’t say cannot when one can only say should not

Rule No. 1 isn't the same kind of rule as Amendment No. 1. But just...

January 18, 2015

Sunday WTF?

"And since they bred when they came to drink, the flocks bred in front of...

January 17, 2015

People think better when they don’t have a gun to their head

The odd Hulk out, misandrist hymns, and Just-so Stories about snakes and zebras. Plus: Bryan...

January 16, 2015

Sing out loud, sing out strong

You don't even have to be able to carry a tune, just step up, free...

January 16, 2015

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 16: ‘A fool’s hope’

"We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to...

January 15, 2015

Sell a mirage and the hordes come running

Tough competition at the Razzies this year -- can't everybody lose? Awful people do an...

January 13, 2015

No one imagines it will come to this

Let me apologize for missing today's Left Behind post, and for the following, wherein I...