Note to Fandango.com Senior Management

February 4, 2004 – 12:00 am

I like Fandango. It’s a great service. However Fandango just sent me marketing email for which I didn’t ask. What’s worse is that it was for Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion.
So a piece of advice: if you spam people trying to sell a piece of anti-Semitic garbage, you might lose them as customers.

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Innana Goes to Mars

January 7, 2004 – 12:00 am

My friend the Badger compares the discarded boosters, cruise stage, aeroshell, etc. used to get a package on Mars to the ancient goddess Inanna shedding her symbols of authority to get to the Underworld.
I’m always amazed by how Badger’s mind works.

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Brand G*D

December 29, 2003 – 12:00 am

After five years of weblogging, you’d think I’d know better than to bring up religion. Oh well. Robert Scoble said something that resonated with this godless bastard:
“But, then, you’ve gotta be arrogant to stand up to the people who see religion as a team sport and that if their religious symbol isn’t in the classroom [...]

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The Parable of Jesus, Mary, and Martha Stewart Living

November 10, 2003 – 12:00 am

Elise Matthesen provides us with some designer apocrypha.

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Culture Hacking with Grace Adler

October 31, 2003 – 12:00 am

Kera Bolonik says Will and Grace is subversive, but not because of Will or Jack.

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New Labour’s Freakout Continues

August 4, 2003 – 12:00 am

Roz Kavney reports that over in the UK, the Home Office set up a new committee to make religious faith more central to government.
Even worse, the head of the committee used to work for Liberty, the British equivalent of the ACLU.
The sellout continues.

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Welcome to the Sexual Surveliance State of Egypt

July 20, 2003 – 12:00 am

Theresa Everline reports on Islam’s battle against sex in Egypt, where the desire to treat unmarried women as a cross between a cow and a financial instrument has spawned a network of spies and busybodies.
In the Soviet Union, the person who kept up the common area of your apartment building was also part of the [...]

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Church sued for hell prediction

July 17, 2003 – 12:00 am

At a funeral in New Mexico, the officiant says the deceased is bound for Hell.
The family of Ben Martinez, 80, allege that Reverend Scott Mansfield said he was “living in sin,” “lukewarm in his faith” and that “the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell”.

Gotta love the imagery in that last [...]

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God, Wolfowitz: what’s the difference?

June 28, 2003 – 12:00 am

At the end of an article in the paper Ha’aretz, covering the Palestinian Authorities’ negotiations with Haamas over a cease fire, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Abbas is quoted concerning his earlier meeting with President Bush:
According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: “God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then [...]

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Seeing the Light (with bonus exigesis)

April 18, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Interconnected ] An Easter story about sin, redemption, and profit [ Not for the squemish, really. So don't go writing angry mail to me when you read it; you've been warned. Those whacky Brits. They'll send us all to Hell for sure. But hey, at least it's not about Neocons and Trotskites. You [...]

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What Would Jesus Shoot?

April 9, 2003 – 12:00 am

Note to Major General William Boykin: you took an oath to defend the Constitution, not the Bible, and while you wear that uniform, obedience to the former is your top job. If you have an issue with that, kindly resign your commission and let someone whose priorities are straight take command.

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Richard Dawkins rants on the Iraqi War

March 23, 2003 – 12:00 am

It wouldn’t be a global catastrophe without the ne plus ultra of anti-theists servicing the believers with a bunker-buster of purple prose (deserved or not):
Bush seems sincerely to see the world as a battleground between Good and Evil, St Michael’s angels against the forces of Lucifer. We’re gonna smoke out the Amalekites, send a posse [...]

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Nancy Reagan had her astrologer, but this is frelling madness.

March 1, 2003 – 12:00 am

Lance, over at Davos Newbies, makes a frightening discovery:
Michael Drosnin, author of the ludicrous hoax The Bible Code [ it's actually called "The Torah Code"], ‘gets meetings with Pentagon’s top intelligence officer and CIA’s No. 3, on his theory that bin Laden’s hideaway is revealed in the Old Testament’s ancient Hebrew.

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The Monstah Returns

February 10, 2003 – 12:00 am

Interesting Monstah is back.
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Vatican sounds New Age alert

February 3, 2003 – 12:00 am

The Vatican warned the Faithful to stay away from competing products such as yoga, feng shui and shamanism. No word yet if the Holy See will launch a snappy site such as http://guiltiscool.com/, http://wearenotallpederasts.net/, or http://thosedamnprotestantsthinktheyhavealltheanswers.org/ to win back members.

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