Amygdala Politics: How Glenn Beck Destroys Your Brain

Right wing fear monger, genus glennusbekasaurus Anger is like a stone thrown into a hornet’s nest. —The Urantia Book Anger interrupts the functioning of your frontal lobes. Not only do you lose the ability to be rational, you lose the awareness that you’re acting in an irrational way. When your frontal lobes shut down, it’s impossible to listen to another …

You Can’t Fix Teh Crazy

You can’t fix Teh Crazy.

The numerous nutboxes that localized majorities of teh stoopid have elected to various public offices are now desperately trying to save the vestiges of the rotting corpse of conservatism, by aligning themselves with the ignorant extremist agitators of the lunatic fringe media. Teh Limpbot. Teh Hannity. Teh Coultergristle. Teh O’Reilly. Teh SavageWeiner. Teh Rest.

Jesus Whips Some Ass

To the amazement of his apostles standing near at hand, who refrained from participation in what so soon followed, Jesus stepped down from the teaching platform and, going over to the lad who was driving the cattle through the court, took from him his whip of cords and swiftly drove the animals from the temple. Oh snap. Then, he strode majestically before the wondering gaze of the thousands assembled in the temple court to the farthest cattle pen and proceeded to open the gates of every stall and to drive out the imprisoned animals. (Shift happens.) By this time the assembled pilgrims were electrified, and with uproarious shouting they moved toward the bazaars and began to overturn the tables of the money-changers. In less than five minutes, all commerce had been swept from the temple.

Obama Still Not Failing

A disgruntled and frustrated Rush Limpbot washed up in the surf to give evil-eyes to President Obama as he photo-opped with Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,  Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev,  and President Hu Jintao of China, as they find ways to success at the G20 summit in London, Thursday, while Obamacorns magically erupt out of the sea. LONDON — With …

The Party Of No Clue

The seemingly always inebriated, chain smoking and perennially tanned Rethuglican House Leader John Boehner (German pronunciation “Boner”) insisted this week on releasing a 19 page, numbers free budget, a supposed alternative to the Democrats’ plan. Reeling from charges that the Rethugs are “the party of no” – no ideas, no ethics, no clue– and despite pleas from less insane party …

To Catch A Bloviator

“His judgement cometh and that right soon.”

ATTENTION CATHOLICS

Eric J. Lyman. ROME — The Vatican could be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of “Angels & Demons,” Ron Howard’s big-budget follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code.” And malevolent flying monkeys could be streaming towards urth as I write this. Avvenire, the Vatican’s official newspaper, ran a story in Friday’s edition noting that the Church “cannot …