October 2015 – The Illogical Seminary

The Stupid Fruit Doesn’t Fall Too Far From The Tree

And Bristol Palin, while totally indigestible, is low hanging on her particular family's branches. She is on the Patheos network, writing a journal of sorts. A blog. Why she is there,…

Iraq And Roll

I have not been consistent on my feelings about the fate of Iraq. In May, I suggested that Iraq is kaput, finished as a nation and there's not a thing…

Will The Shark Jump Happen?

About two months ago, I said Trumpmania would die in December, and that Ben Carson is going to be the benefactor. That was an easy one. But I don't know.…

As Close As We’re Going To Get

23 Oct 201523 Oct 2015

I am a political animal first. Second, I am a humanist. This means I will put party and country before religion, or lack thereof in my case. Lord knows I…

Fucking Politics

Mosquerade

23 Oct 201523 Oct 2015

Oh, great. It's time for the "Things Donald Trump Will Look At And What A Great Thing He Will Do To Fix It" game: Donald Trump went on Fox Business…

Laugh Of The Day

23 Oct 201523 Oct 2015

Goes thusly: Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson claimed he is in “great danger” -- and in need of Secret Service protection -- because a “secular progressive movement” opposes him, BuzzFeed reported Thursday.…

Ken Ham, Being Wrong Again

22 Oct 201522 Oct 2015

That is one thick motherfucker. Hemant Mehta relates a conversation with a non-believing chaplain about death and the meaning of life: A few months ago, I had a long conversation…

I Am No Expert

Here's a new weaselly Christian thing going around when they realize that they have to grudgingly accept evolution as a fact. "Well, I believe that microevolution happens, but not this…

Burn Of The Day

21 Oct 201521 Oct 2015

Mr Smart Stupid has a new idea emanating from his filterless brain: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday he would use the U.S. Department of Education to police speech…

War Is Over

...said John Lennon, and we wanted to believe that so bad. But America sickly lurches from one conflict to another, and if we don't send bodies, we send guns. War.…