Ex Cathedra

• What is hunkered down Christianity doing to its believers? -Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order – http://t.co/l9RzYoz2 #
• The Romney class are taking wages & benefits away from working people. Celebrate Labor Day by organizing to stop them! #
• What does Hell sound like? No, that answer is way too easy. BLDGBLOG: The Auditory Configuration of Hell – http://t.co/L081lrQv #
• People who say "on a daily basis" instead of "every day" must die. Where's my disemboweling kit? #
• "Romney calls immigrant children illegals. Obama calls them DREAMers. That tells me everything I need to know." -David Simas #
• A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog stand and says Make me one Chicago style, extra mustard. #
• A home run by a stunning lady – Transcript: Michelle Obama's Convention Speech : NPR – http://t.co/zI5Rocuj #
• Moms, want to know why your kids are hungry?'Epicenter of missile defense' growing on Redstone Arsenal – http://t.co/f3GQlpM7 #
• I intend to vote in the way that is the most effective in bringing about the destruction of conservatism. Now explain to me why you won't. #
• RIP Joe South- http://t.co/dTuemS72 – http://t.co/e5TQyfg4 #
• "We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point."~Lawrence Durrell via http://t.co/4nmlehHN #
• I <3 Barney! Barney Frank Likens Gay Republicans To Uncle Toms | TPM2012 – http://t.co/TfKAXPE6 #
• "Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."~Jean Baudrillard #

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• Religion news: UK's version of Tim Tebow reveals dark secret about Olympic ceremonies – http://t.co/VSMAHhFc #
• Learn the early warning signs of libertarianism. Today, the gold standard. Tomorrow, lizard people. #
• Delightful piece by Mary C Curtis: Blacks at RNC 2012: Onstage, But Not in the Crowd? – http://t.co/64QqrDVR #
• Sarah Posner finds the porn shoes on Evangelical extremist whore Sam Rodriguez- http://t.co/WhwBIFAl #
• Politics isn't about making yourself feel good. That's vibrators. And (if you do it right) music. #
• "Latcho Drom" 1 word review: "performance." #
• Thanks to a musical historian friend: What Great Composers Ate – Duluth Superior Magazine – August 2012 – Duluth, MN – http://t.co/FMrmJ6jN #
• I have faith that the GOP will disband as a political party and go straight into the business of voter suppression for money. #
• Thanks for 9/11, Condi. #
• I don't know how, but the old Spanish lady was involved in this.- http://t.co/kqfVyWqr #
• Conservatism itself is the enemy. We need to kill conservatism at its roots: privilege, ignorance, racism, and Jesus. #
• "human wandering through the zoo / what do your cousins think of you"~Don Marquis – via http://t.co/4nmlehHN #
• If you don't like Facebook's timeline, remember: it could be much, much worse: Time Cube – http://t.co/biOmAwRB #
• Rick Warren still uses the hard-core homophobic word "lifestyle." Fuck him and the Jesus he rode in on. #
• Spent all day trying to make a LaCie Wireless Space work. Convinced it never will & people who claim NAS is real are lying. #
• Democracy isn't a Christian value. Equality & individual worth aren't Christian values. They're all BETTER than Christian values. #
• Son, saying things just to annoy people who are better than you is no way to go through life. #
• ♺@jonathanshainin: Next step in fact-checking arms race: newspapers and campaigns hire in-house epistemologists. #
• Is it possible to be sensuous and conservative? #

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• ♺@revnaomi: “Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold” – Margaret Fuller Ossoli #
• Instead of opposing religion, oppose evil. Then stand up proudly for being fully alive in the real world. #
• ♺@ShareAwakening: The more you know, the less you need. ~ Aboriginal Saying #
• Knowledge comes from looking back at the mistakes you've made. Wisdom comes from knowing your life turned out more interesting & fun anyway. #
• “When the enabling technology is in place, the next thing is going to happen.”~Victor Poor, via GMSV #
• The reasonable Right say unions were once beneficial but aren't needed any more. We can kill that argument with a single word: TAKEAWAYS. #
• ♺@sonjablair The GOP loves potential people. Actual people, not so much. #Maddow #
• Delaware's Last Honest Toddler Fight Club Was Shut Down Yesterday – http://t.co/UDK2QjyO Which of our precious freedoms will they take next? #
• Tampa Gay Sex Workers Ready for GOP Boom [Video] | The Bilerico Project – http://t.co/xsVvgA2g Deje los good times roll! #
• "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."~Frank Lloyd Wright – via http://t.co/4nmlehHN #
• ♺@badbanana: How do you become a certified life coach? Prove you're able to accept money with a straight face? #
• When conservatives hoot and honk about "blame it all on Bush, " ignore the loud, ugly noises. Look at what they're doing: defending Bush. #
• I'm just glad to see there are still amateur ram gropers, and commercial ram groping hasn't ruined it.- http://t.co/lT1SvwoV #
• Does anybody remember the story about the electronics conference where the notes were full of references to things like sea-moss? #
• Mary Gonzalez will be the first out pansexual legislator in the US http://t.co/yar37PB7 via @feministing #
• Typeface designed for doctors – http://t.co/VgxZA1Xt via @sdhanasekAR #
• I'm a tighty whitey man. Been one all my life. When I find a tighty whitey woman, she will be my wife. #
• ♺@owillis: jfk: "We choose to go to the moon." neil armstrong: OK. #
• ♺@jricole: Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst http://t.co/ZjXUIEFY #
• Wisconsin Girls, he may be available soon – http://t.co/lAfDJKgZ #

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• Why not Bob McDonnell? He's so photogenic, so homophobic, so vaginal probic. He'd have been perfect. #
• Smaller & meaner. That's Alabama. Guvnuh Pitchfork McJesus Bentley aims to cut $1 billion – http://t.co/1EDcBe5B #
• Real Christian Conservatives believe Methodists are atheists because Methodists can read and write. #
• Explaining the Beatles to a New Generation – http://t.co/arwzoR6D – http://t.co/0RC3Xj9K – What a sweet story. Via Arts Journal;. #
• People who say Romney worships a false god have taken quite a burden on themselves. We all know what it is. I wish them well at it. #
• Gentleman, start your engine – SDRM How to Boot a Steam Locomotive – http://t.co/28zXnpD1 #
• Tried to like newish Purity Ring and Niki & the Dove. Failed. Niki was easiest to dislike: calculated & dumb. #
• House Negro Artur Davis Slams Joe Biden For ‘Divisive’ Remarks | TPM2012 – http://t.co/lLX68k93 #
• Banana Boy Kirk Cameron endorses Jesus Judge Roy Moore for Alabama chief justice | http://t.co/zOSu55E9 – http://t.co/tGm7iG3s #
• LA bass & sax player Robert Wayne Birch found dead in apparent suicide – http://t.co/JZ9XOg6p #
• If you're saying Black people are slaves on the "Democrat[ic] plantation," pease share this with actual Black people. It will be amusing. #
• Artur Davis starts working for Massa Romney with (of course) a lie. He opposed PBO from day 1, and Dems dumped him. – http://t.co/1Ul950To #
• So much good writing in Gawker, Isn't it time for them to plant their flag in the Algonquin lobby & say "Fuck it, we're The New Yorker now!" #
• Christian liar Tony Perkins asks for FRC to be de-listed as hate group. TWO says sry, facts show you are. – http://t.co/dK5JJEds #
• What do public schools (US meaning) have that the investor class wants? Land! School sports fields in danger – http://t.co/2yuyqSsz #
• Let's be grateful the kid with the gun didn't destroy the Family Research Council's laboratories where they do all their research. #
• Failed to love Passion Pit's "Gossamer." Glittery poppity pop pop pop. Makes "Rice Is Nice" sound like 2nd mvmt of Deutsche Requiem. #
• Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. – http://t.co/fid67W9K Love this. Remember what psych did w/ factor analysis? #
• I've found a new babysitter. Butt Hole Tattoo Girl, Maria, Speaks: "Now My Ass Is Famous Overnight" – http://t.co/kbL8at7q #
• Sane military budget: insource all work. All contractors on mil bases get drafted as Privates. All new contracts: cost plus one dollar. #

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• Hey, Curiosity, why do you tourists always take pictures of yourselves? #
• ♺@sherifffruitfly: THANK FUCKING GAWD THAT NBC DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MARS CURIOSITY BROADCASTING. #
• If you're selling a system of morality, you must explain why Celebrity Feet Magazine exists: http://t.co/pbEaRChx #
• Foot fetishes. The geometry is all wrong. That's why when I first saw a vagina, I thought that's a great idea. But maybe persistence pays. #
• Worth reading if only for the delightful phrase "Chick-fil-A Christians" – http://t.co/nsNXpfxf #
• Doctors who make me leave a message on voicemail to make an appointment should be aware of one thing about me: I shall smite you in my wrath #
• A circuit for aggression in the brains of angry birds – http://t.co/X7fIUFhf NB: possible confounding in territory vs mates conclusion? #
• Could shrinking your friends list be a sign of incipient conservatism? – http://t.co/G3bOaEB1 #
• ♺@Bweathe4: You can always tell it's someone's first experience with metro when their eyes still shine with hope. #
• Romney's problem isn't his money, it's his lying. He was born with a silver fork in his tongue. #
• ♺@SimonNRicketts: A lot of fallers at the BMX. Sadly, they've had to shoot three of the bicycles.#olympics #
• ♺@crispen: Oreo commemorative Mars Curiosity cookie for the win. http://t.co/DL1Xsnq2 #
• ♺@SethMacFarlane: "50% of the Olympics is to determine which nation has the strongest, fastest hermaphrodites." – NOT cool! #
• Romney picked Ryan now because revealing his tax returns is WORSE for him than picking a guy who'll kill Medicare. Stay on the tax returns! #
• Ryan is a distraction. Don't be stupid & get distracted. Stay on Bain & the tax returns! Make them hate Romney, not Ryan. #
• A Dot In Time is an anagram of Meditation – http://t.co/13XSJmNU And also http://t.co/PWHf5Jk0 #

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• ♺@stevebeste: Rafalca Romney puts note in Western Wall. #
• Snoop was caught with 8 grams of WHUT? Inconceivable! – http://t.co/FEJ1EfMI #
• This Is My Body on Vimeo – http://t.co/ttW7ffw1 #
• Read this. Just read this. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance – http://t.co/vpDrctpf #
• ♺@anamariecox: The women's volleyball players could turn Michele Bachmann gay. #olympics #sexyamazons #
• GOProud endorses another homophobe: First Romney, now McMahon? Who's their chair, Fred Phelps? – http://t.co/BBsa4KuQ #
• ♺@aseitzwald: Another relevant passage from Romney's No Apologies: "There *are* superior cultures, and ours is one of them." #
• Mitt says this is a superior culture. If Hank Jr, Ted Nugent & praise music are superior culture, kill me now. #
• Did Expelled Stars Reionize the Ancient Universe? Better, did the Big Bang unionize the universe? – http://t.co/v2rDKApI #
• Olympic Weightlifter Responds To Sexist Tweets: 'We Don't Lift Weights … For The Likes Of Men Like That.' – http://t.co/lvasQjnV Yay Zoe! #
• Wake up! What the Bain investor told Reid is Mitt paid to have hecklers come to Nevada in 010. Don't mess with Harry Reid. He'll cut ya! #
• "Since my house burned down / I now own a better view / of the rising moon."~Mizuta Masahide – via http://t.co/4nmlehHN #
• Are you sure there isn't a way to set Alabama on fire? Crowds mob Chick-Fil-A restaurants http://t.co/zJlcLpHG #
• I must now live a life of regret that it never occurred to me to do this with one of the People of Wal-Mart – http://t.co/j1tQy5SL #
• Dave Barry's tag line for this was perfect: When ukuleles are outlawed….- http://t.co/9x5AMHgr #
• Anybody know recipes that use corn chips that have been in my cupboard for several years? #
• Emergency update to my question about recipes to use up bags of chips that have been in my cabinet for years: they're starting to rustle. #
• Mosey for your lives! BBC News – African snail: Deadly invasion in South America – http://t.co/qYAISFPO #
• At Sibelius software, the last staff turn out the lights – http://t.co/cq90dUHm Stockholder class sucking the last profits for themselves. #
• Get ready to think a hundred things about Lenny, the people who admired him, truth & character – Tablet Magazine – http://t.co/wHqUfOVL #

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Sometimes I think back on things my wife did that made me mad. That whole dying thing really pissed me off. But today I remember the joy she brought to my life. Happy birthday, Kelly, my true love.

• Pretty soon we find out whether David Hobbs can get through a broadcast without saying "grosssjean" and "hardERRR tires/" #
• "Real" Christian churches aren't like Westboro? All they need to do is post a big sign "Homophobes not welcome." But they don't. Why? #
• Looks like Mitt will be doing his own campaigning. His wife, Gloria Upson, isn't making a very good impression. #
• Wonkette: This Old Man By The River Has the Perfect Mitt Romney Theme Song – http://t.co/lqs4Zbg6 #
• Fare well, great voyager. Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61 – http://t.co/dTuemS72 – http://t.co/Agu8mwGM #
• ♺@keithboykin: NYT: Romney got the US to give public land to Mormon billionaire Earl Holding to expand his ski resort for Olympics. #
• "It Was on Purpose:" Kids Attacked By Anaheim Cops Say (While Cops Tried to Buy Bystanders Cellphone Videos?) – http://t.co/dmoJ6iIY #
• Is Counsilman's beloved book wrong? Push Comes to Pull: What’s the Best Freestyle Swimming Stroke? [Video] – http://t.co/xXoW6Z8B #
• Happily digesting curry. OMG their veggies were good today. #
• Are you man enough to see this? The Devil Accuses Bobby Jindal Of Sinning In His Heart (And In His Hand) To Amy Grant – http://t.co/KR8QuUJU #
• 18 mi 'Space Jump' Practice – http://t.co/t9w0fieg Practice? I remember what happened the first 10 times I tried a flip off the high dive. #
• Good morning, Iran! http://t.co/OaeBIYm9 via @youtube http://t.co/ZORtehDF #
• ♺@jesseberney: If nothing is illegal than only criminals will do nothing. #
• McLuhan: Uttering something is "outering" it. Say it, get it out from inside of us where it's fucking us up & maybe we can slay that dragon. #
• "To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true."~H.L. Mencken, #
• The Olympic Ideal | TPM Editors Blog – http://t.co/g0DrU3Bx "The women athletes across the board were total badasses." #
• Cantor Defends Bachmann – This means Cantor must ASK teabag crazies for their votes. Lost control of House.- http://t.co/7zAk9HTN #
• Were you worried about Bibi playing Romney like Begin played Reagan? No prob. Mitt was just lying.- http://t.co/Z6Dlt5kZ #

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• George El Hacko Supremo Will is delivering McConnell's message to Mitt: "Shut up and do what we tell you. Better start getting used to it." #
• Romney now officially more awful than a turkey shredding grifter who spoke in tongues. – http://t.co/hCHVkRSM #
• ♺@crispen: "Yay, only 30 minutes until Microsoft reveals the next version of Office" said nobody ever. #
• There are far worse ways to make a living than reading, thinking, & writing about fairy tales – http://t.co/I1lolD2W – via A&L Daily #
• Making friends isn't an accomplishment. They're friends. Making enemies – that's an accomplishment. #
• Fresh off her triumph on Good Morning America, Ann Romney greets Detroit with "Ciao, my n*ggaz!" #
• It's renews my faith that we still have smart people like Alyssa Rosenberg commenting on tragedies. – http://t.co/tsDb6meR #
• "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."~Carl Jung – via http://t.co/4nmlehHN #
• Another via http://t.co/4nmlehHN – love this: "Congratulation: The civility of envy."~Ambrose Bierce #
• Let's try to be bigger than our agendas. #
• 21 Burned in Walk Over Hot Coals at Tony Robbins Event – Burned from walking on hot coals? Inconceivable! http://t.co/qKvzxHdb #

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Most people know discrimination is wrong. Conservatives don’t. They don’t just practice discrimination, they need it. Why?

It’s simple. Unlike our world, which is full of rich and complex relationships,  a conservative’s world consists of inferiors, who he despises and seeks to control, and superiors, who he admires and seeks to please. That makes him a bully and a coward.

But without the ability to discriminate, there’s nothing left for the conservative to be but a coward.