Do you not rejoice at the endless display of insanity that is the World Net Daily? I am utterly in awe of this website's ability to draw such a huge audience, while simultaneously being one of the ugliest, more poorly presented idiot "news" sites on the planet. It looks like the late 90's puked all over this thing. Today's crusty old man with a religious chip on his shoulder is one David Kupelian, whose art ...

Two things about Pope Benedict's planned visit to Malta have me smiling a bit; (1) the mayor of a small town has asked that a statue which looks like a dick be removed at the local airport for fear of offending the pontiff, and (2) a graffiti artist stenciled a few "pedobears" on the billboard marking his arrival, and the local news people have no idea what it implies. In case you're hopelessly out of the l ...

Mississippi isn't exactly known for its open-mindedness and progressiveness; it was, after all, the second state to secede from the Union in 1861. It also had the distinction at the time of actually having more black slaves than white citizens (55% of the population was in chains back then). There's a surprisingly large gay population in Mississippi, something that's not common knowledge if you're from arou ...

I still find it telling no religious person has yet seriously dealt with Hitchens' challenge asking to show evidence that any moral action inspired by religion could not also be accomplished without reliance on the supernatural. I've said time and time again: there is no reason to believe in a world beyond the material reality of this one. The only reason we think there is one is because for the longest tim ...

Religious proselytizers have a new buzzword their throwing around to try and justify their renewed efforts to break down the wall separating church and state; they are arguing that their religious freedoms are being threatened. Take this example: Sen. David Schultheis is proposing a new bill that would allow students and faculty members to actively try and recruit on school grounds. Schultheis, a Republican ...

In case you were unaware, Mormons typically don't like gays. They hate them so much they devoted a significant portion of their resources to pushing for Prop 8, using all kinds of ridiculous fear mongering and veiled bigotry to convince people that allowing marriages between individuals of the same sex would somehow torpedo their own unions. It didn't matter to them this was a complete and utter fabrication ...

Here's a scary thought: roughly half of all murders in Turkey are honor killings. That's roughly 200 cases of women being killed by family members for the "crime" of offending the family's honor. What does that entail, exactly? Well, take the story of Medine Memi, a teenage girl who was buried alive by her father and grandfather for having male friends. Media reports said the father had told relatives he wa ...

I think overly sensitive Christians need to re-examine their definition of hate speech. Political hopeful William J. Kelly is attempting to make a mountain out of a molehill, claiming a sign erected by the Freedom from Religion Foundation in the Illinois Capital Building is hate speech: At the time of the winter solstice, let reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There ...

Yes, I'm aware her YouTube name is actually ZOMGitsCriss, but that doesn't mean I have to like it (also, the intro song is actually a little bit terrible, but in a cute way). Here is her latest video explaining why evolution is true. She provides extensive examples of transitional fossils for doubters who apparently can't be bothered to do research themselves (presumably out of fear of being proved wrong). ...

It's now official; parents need to stay the fuck out of the educational system. How else are we supposed to react when one of these people gets the expanded version of Anne Frank's diary banned for containing a short passage making reference to the vagina? There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can't imagine ho ...