In Sunday School the talk turned to the council in heaven and Satan’s competing plan of salvation. Why, the teacher asked, does God allow Satan to try to sabotage God’s plan? (more…)

Get your highschool diploma and an advanced degree in Awesome, all at the same time. Not bad.

Driving home from work yesterday I was listening to an early Skeptoid podcast, a skeptical show about psuedoscience.  It was about how New Agers have no notion of what energy is–instead of a measurement of capability to perform work, they think about it as a glowing cloud of mystical goodness or something.

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Some people are down on bogus academic institutions.

But not all b.s. colleges are equal.   This one appears to be superb.  I’ve already been awarded my M.S. in Healing Touch!

I’m not suggesting that anyone that lives in a ‘gated community’ is necessarily evil.

I guess they’re just presumptively evil.

Put this one in the “credit where credit is due” file. The Obama Administration’s new blue-ribbon commission on overhauling the space program is superb.

I ain’t a singing feller, but when the thunder is hollerin’ I holler back. Tain’t in the hymnal, but I reckon this here song is all right. (more…)

Bartleby regrets not having bothered to donate to Republicans. He prefers not to be a car dealer.

Some stupid people act like there’s something wrong with sex-change operations or amputating healthy limbs. (more…)

This calls for the red cummerbund sash thing. A touch of the jolly old hidalgo, don’t you know.

The Junior Ganymede regrets to announce that the Generalissimo has declined our invitation to guest blog.

What’s your favorite? I’ve read Shelby Foote’s Civil War several times, though more as an American devotion than for the military history. And I always skip the epilogue. Davis might have been a fine fellow but he still should have been hanged.

Keegan is always very readable.

King Solomon says, uh, you want I should cut this infant horizontal or vertical?

None dare call it patriarchy.

You kin eat beef but you caint eat national prestige.