God Spies On Russians

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHOPxVM6oIw[/youtube] Well this proves God is on our side, right?  Right? Well no.  It proves his immutable laws can create conditions which can occasionally produce clouds most of us have never seen.  This unusual cloud is known as a “fallstreak hole,” or “punch hole” cloud, and was filmed in Russia and ‘Tubed.  The technical explanation is here. Still.  Awesome.

Limbaugh Goes To Hell

Chicken wingnut “Grand Pusbot” Rush Limpbaugh, in full wingnut regalia, photo-opped with the Satan Twins and their twin cats, Baal, and Chain, during his recent trip to Hell.

Don’t It Make Your Red Eyes Blue

It was late; my eyes were bloody red tired; I needed some music to get me focused for one last paragraph. But the debul must be fuckin’ with me. Who else could slip Wayne Newton‘s “Dake Shaen” into my iTunes?! Anyway. I put it in the trash, and played this. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQpWmKoB4g[/youtube] A little out of sync maybe.  Maybe insipid to …

100% ABSOLUTE TRUTHINESS

One of the greatest attractions of patriotism— it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling we are profoundly virtuous. — Aldous Huxley “Country First” John McCain: “I am not a perfect vessel.” I’ll see your “Country First” and raise you a …

Reality Bites

More galaxies than grains of sand on every beach of this world. Taken with the Hubble Deep Field, January 15, 1996 Since it’s a lovely morning, why don’t we take stock of a few things that most of us take for granted. Let’s start with some practical aspects of “reality.”  Here we are— billions of us— whizzing through time and …

The Difference Between Palin and Bush?

Lipstick. To the apocalypse lobby, Sarah Palin is everything that they had hoped George W. Bush would be; and more. Making what a lot of fundies consider a downpayment on the rapture, Bush told Palestinian leaders at the White House in June ’03 that he was instructed by God to remove Saddam from power: “God told me, ‘George, go and …

The Scattered Brotherhood

Surrendering To Love YOU HAVE UNDERTAKEN THE GREAT ADVENTURE of becoming sons of God, and you have to go through a sort of untangling to reach this place of communion and awareness. Be assured that your sole duty is to go within and dissolve by releasing the outer entanglements, to surrender appetites and forebodings. The question of appetites is different …