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December 2015

December 21, 2015

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows … and so can you, actually, based on evidence and reason

Lamont Cranston, these pedants insist, was an uncharitable and uncivil fellow. He failed in his...

December 12, 2015

Why laying off copy editors makes us all dumber and less free

Copy editors help keep readers safe from garbled, meaningless, passive-voice abominations like this form of...

November 2015

November 09, 2015

Crackpots and candidates: How to lead in the GOP polls

Here again are Maggie Koerth-Baker's five rules for discerning the difference between a genius and...

November 07, 2015

It’s not rocket science: Why at first I thought Ben Carson was like ‘Good Jackie’

As Ben Carson began repeating the urban legends and folklore of his religious community, I...

November 03, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (11.3)

Digby on David Barton's growing influence in the Republican Party. Rick Pearlstein and Brad DeLong...

November 02, 2015

It sounded right in my head until I said it out loud

Maybe it's never happened to you. But if you've ever had that experience of having...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

How to understand ‘biblical inerrantists’

The modern assertion of "biblical inerrancy" is best explained in a 1978 document called the...

September 22, 2015

Just watching myself in some play

A great magician reveals a trick; the end of the season and the End of...

September 15, 2015

As one by one the lights go out

The "Jade Helm" military training exercise ends without anything like any of the right-wing conspiracy...

September 02, 2015

The uncanny sex fiends of Christianity Today (No. 3)

Ed Stetzer's hasty guesstimate that 400 church leaders might possibly be resigning quickly morphed into...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

‘We must be careful about what we pretend to be’: How tribal cheerleading creates new tribal dogma and changes the tribe to conform to it

Over time, these kinds of tribal-cheerleading responses to pollsters and other catechists eventually become required...

May 06, 2015

For some it’s a con, for some it’s a game, and for some it’s a gnostic cult. And sometimes it’s all three at once.

I used to think that the audience supporting any given conspiracy theory was made up...

May 05, 2015

Happy cornbread anniversary

Franklin Graham rails against the X-Men as an "attempt to indoctrinate our young people" into...

May 01, 2015

This day is not imagination’s child

Texas Republican slaps down right-wing nonsense: "I am horrified that I have to choose between...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

I see you darkly through a glass again

It really took a lot of work to imagine that a law mandating and subsidizing...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Talking to people that I’ve never met

Besides all that lightning, stove, bifocal, swim-fin, Treaty of Paris, fire department stuff, Ben Franklin...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

What if it were all true?

Here's the premise for a TV show: It's all true. Everything Pat Robertson says is...

February 01, 2015

Why the Republican Party cannot, as Michael Gerson suggests, ‘raise questions’ about climate change

Rather than the absurd claim that climate science is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Rich people have been pretending to be stupid for so long that they’ve actually become stupid

This study from the Pew Research Center demonstrates that a majority of America's wealthiest residents...

January 03, 2015

‘Generational curses’ is not a Christian teaching. It is an ancient grift that predates the Bible.

If anyone ever tells you that you may have inherited a generational curse, you can...

January 02, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (1.2)

The ethics and economics of Baileyism; John Cleese on stupidity; Alan Bean on pro-torture Christians;...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

And you’ll only drink milk from a Christian cow

Some links for Buy Nothing Day, including: another bit of false prophecy from Tim LaHaye;...

November 13, 2014

There is no spoon. There are no facts. There is no truth. Here’s what it looks like when you trade reality for power.

The Liar Tony Perkins provides yet another illustration of what David Roberts calls "postmodern conservatism,"...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Chemtrails & Creationists: ‘Biblical inerrancy’ as conspiracy theory

"Inerrancy" is a kind of conspiracy theory. In this framework, theologians and biblical scholars are...

August 13, 2014

Who you gonna believe? Your facts? Or my ‘worldview’?

More than a century before Nyhan and Kahan began studying this phenomena, Frederick Douglass had...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

I don’t expect you to explain

• "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

I try to describe it, can never succeed

Some Friday night links, including: chemtrails over Arizona, a political candidate's joyriding, the Nicholas brothers,...

June 10, 2014

The Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Read

Some are born ignorant, some achieve ignorance, and some have ignorance thrust upon them. If...

June 05, 2014

I am always praying through my vanities

A few things, including: Commencement commences; Molly Worthen on the incredible shrinking Southern Baptist Convention;...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

Cain’s wife and Tubal-cain’s sonic screwdriver

"Who did Cain marry?" you asked back in Sunday school. And what you may have...