Why I Am No Longer Atheist.

My days as an atheist started in Đà Nẵng Harbor on my 21st birthday.  I was in what the Navy considered a war zone, and was clearly feeling reckless. It was as good a time as any to stop believing in a benevolent infinite being watching my every move from outer space.

Mitch McConnell In Wonderland: Episode Two

The question is,” said Mitch McDumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.

McConnell In Wonderland

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. Who are YOU?’ said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.  Alice replied, rather shyly, “I— I hardly know, sir, just at present— at least …

Humpty Dumpty’s Class War Flunkies

Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, the embodiment of modern day GOPer propaganda techniques “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty …

Is Christine O’Donnell The Walrus?

One of the greatest songwriters of all time, John Lennon, would have turned 70 today if he hadn’t been assassinated outside his New York apartment in 1980. He was also an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and a political activist, considered so dangerous to President Richard Nixon‘s 1972 re-election campaign that Nixon tried to have him deported. It is …

Contempt In A Free-Floating Void

The simple, snark-free truth is this. There is so much wrong with the way life and culture are currently valued, lived, and experienced in America today by a huge, backward looking minority, that irony and snark must per force ooze from every pore of our collective bag of national skin until we free ourselves from its grasping claws.