Ex Cathedra

Less rage at the assholes,  much more mockery.
More music.
More dreaming.
End the year with less stuff and more time spent with friends.

2009 has been comedy gold.
You know the sound when you’re sucking on a straw and you get to the bottom of the cup? That’s the Right in 2009. Their pronouncements aren’t just stereotyped, they’re hallucinatory, and the talking heads  look like they don’t give a shit whether or not they make sense. They’re just making [...]

Karl Rove  seems to have picked Dana Perino as spokesman for his family to field questions about his recent divorce.
How dysfunctional do you have to be to pick Dana Perino as your spokesman?
If Dana Perino were the spokesman for the Snuggie, most people wouldn’t believe it’s made out of cloth.
I see some headlines about “Jeff [...]

The Parker Griffith Story is being reported by the Alabama Council of Conservative Citizens under their banner “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR SOUTHERN WHITES”
North Alabama Democrat Congressman Parker Griffith becomes Republican « Alabama Council of Conservative Citizens.
I love conservative Southern White people. They put it right out there, don’t they?
Here’s a more insightful comment by someone [...]

The big news of the year had to be archaeologists in Jerusalem digging up the corpse of Jesus.
Christians were thrilled to find out that Jesus was real, not just a mashup of myths going around the Middle East at the time.
Christians were not so thrilled to find out that when Jesus died, he stayed [...]

- Les Phillip December 2009 Commercial [YouTube].
Since Parker Griffith is going to switch to the GOP, the 2010  election  in the mostly White Alabama 5th District might get interesting.
Griffith refused to campaign for Obama in 2008 or for his Alabama State Senate colleague Vivian Figures who was running against notorious racist Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. [...]

Conservatives are really bad at handling change. I love the crackling sound they make as they snap under the strain.

As everybody knows, the existence of a watch necessitates the existence of a watchmaker. Which means one or more gods must exist.
By the same logic, if a watch stops and it just sits there, there can be no life after death. QED.
And because there are whole assembly lines of watchmakers, the probability that there’s only [...]

Healthcare reform marks the spot where Republicans dealt themselves out of American politics and became officially irrelevant. It was all about conservadems versus the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

It’s the time of year when older kids tell their parents, “Mom, Dad, we know. Santa Claus is you. And Jesus isn’t real.”