Wonderland or Not

It is amazing the number of people who will follow a political leader because of their religion. It got Bush elected twice, and is ruining the chance for reasonable people to try to fix the problems.

heh heh,

the shortest comment I’ve made here in some time. I like the permanent piece of underwear stuck in the crack of his ass touch.

I happen to agree with him - almost completely.

Hi guys,
I love your blog. Its fabulous. I’ve linked into you on Resource Economics. I hope you’ll consider reciprocating. This is too much fun over here. I’m gonna pretend I’m your age again when I visit.

Haven’t read the book, may consider it if I can fit it in among graduation and the three days I have left over for a little fun before I start my real job.

Thanks for posting the video, you have started a small war between me and my girlfriend, and I have a feeling this is going to go on all night long.

I hope to be back to posting again once I graduate and am fully employed.

How old is your general readership cooper?
I thought it was a lot older than you.

It’s the truth. Every word of it. Hell, my brother technically can be called “reverend” now ever since he sent fifteen dollars to the Universal Church of Life. The same people who dubbed Hunter S Thompson “Doctor.” I bet if he showed enough of the televangelist equivalent of T and A he could be just as big.

Anyways all I’m saying is that the guy died on my birthday and I’d just like to thank whoever was so thoughtful

Hitchens is very articulate but not funny. I do appreciate anyone using “Charlatan” and “Canterburian fraud.”

I couldn’t get the sound to play

Hadn’t thought about Falwell dying on the Wombat’s birthday

Must also remark on one of the comments. Cooper’s maturity level is generally greater than her readers maturity…

“almost like he has a permanent piece of underwear stuck in the crack of his ass.”

It’s because he wears thongs cooper.

Good assessment of Falwell, you’re right. Worth watching.

Cooper is not as young as she looks.
Or is it she is not as young as she is?

I just read a critique of his book by Daniel C. Dennett. (at the Boston Globe ) This is the last paragraph of the review.
“At their best, his indictments are trenchant and witty, and the book is a treasure house of zingers worthy of Mark Twain or H. L. Mencken. At other times, his impatience with the smug denial of the self-righteous gets the better of him, and then he strikes glancing blows at best, and occasionally adopts a double standard, excusing his naturalist heroes for their few lapses into religious gullibility on the grounds that they couldn’t have known any better at the time, while leaving no such wiggle room for the defenders of religion over the ages. But these excesses are themselves a valuable element of this wake-up call. They say to every complacent but ignorant churchgoer: look how angry this well-informed critic of religion is. Perhaps when you know what he has uncovered about the words and deeds of religions around the world you will share his sense of betrayal of what is best in humankind.”

I am outta the loop these days with nothing intelligent to say I am afraid… which is why I haven’t said hi in a while even though I have been in quite a few times… So…

Hola!

And I do love the sound of “apoplectic arrogance”…

Crap! Wordpress keeps sending me to SPAM!!! This happened on another post you wrote too! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Damn you to hell wordpress!

Mizzy B: don’t worry about it I eventually find it. I am just always glad to know you are alive.

Jacob: Funny, I can totally see him in a thong…with white black socks and sandals too. Thanks I’ll try to find the full review, I love Dennett.

pia: mature - funny word. I always think of rotting fruit so that might not be such a good thing.

Casey: sorry about the small war, this too will pass.

Doug: what do you mean??????????? I laugh hysterically at him all the time. ;)

Wombat: I can’t take credit for that. May he rest in peace though.

coyote: I just don’t know the answer to much of it, there is an emptiness there or an ignorance or both.

john: short and sweet, sometimes it works out better that way.

eve: welcome, t’is true my blog belongs to the people who comment here, without them I am crap really.
They are much more mature than they look as well. ;)

OK, Alice, work with me here.

“A man in priestly vestments of one faith or another and we can imagine which, a rabbinical member of the self-illumined people of God and one other who lacks only the suicide vest to fulfill his faith’s call to martyr oneself in the service of Allah or some such similar deity walk abreast into a dickensian nightmare of a drinking establishment that might have, were it less crowded with cacophonous riff-raff, been otherwise a fine place for a single malt and a pint of bitter.”

Will it matter what the punchline is?

“… they drink on into the night and discuss issues of religious intolerance and by the end of the night understand each other somewhat better. Later, they die.”

wombat got it right

good stuff, were you not such a fine delicate flower I’d slap your ass with a towel and yell “good game”, just for the “apoplectic arrogance - almost like he has a permanent piece of underwear stuck in the crack of his ass.”

I couldn’t get past the words and the accent.
“Underwear in the crack of his butt”, that’s precious.

Love the word charlatan, providing a the prefect description.

He says, “The whole consideration of this person [in media} is offensive to very very many of us who have any regard for truth.”

I’m Christian, but I whole heartedly agree. I am deeply offended that people assume I must be like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson or Focus on the Family James Dobson just because we all call ourselves Christian.

Unfortunately, the weirdest religious characters must be the most fun to interview on the news.