Caught up in the rapture

Both the lovely Tits McGee and I came upon this slender missive during our summer getaways.

48 blank pages, followed by "It's fiction, dumb ass" on the back cover.

The next day, I drove past a truck emblazoned with "Jesus Christ is LORD! Not a curse word!"

Why not both?

Soul Music for the Asses

For those concerned they might look too cool playing Guitar Hero, here's a Christian version. I'd be willing to spring for the deluxe model featuring remote detonation.

The Carrot or the Stick*

According to an affidavit, Boatman "became enraged" on Monday after the child brought home the bad-behavior report and said, "Boy, do you want to go to hell or to God?"


*Not the sexy kind of carrots and sticks. The abusive kind.

Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail

Nuns Are Hot

What does the Catholic Church really need? To fight the stereotype that nuns are old and dour.

I'd like to note that in my Google image search for this post, I saw a great many things I wish I could unsee.

God bless EA's marketing department

Cynical marketing deliberately having a poke at people's beliefs? Quite possibly.

Likelihood of this being picked up by some fire and brimstone wingnut with a passion for self publicity? High.

Likely to offend deep in the Bible Belt?




Perhaps... there are still golf courses where they don't like to see a coloured (unless he's carrying the bag of bats).

...and should we crush his sweet hands?

Once a popular and well-respected church music director in Eagle River, Paul Michael “Ziggy” Ziegfield Stardust left the Vilas County Courthouse Friday a convicted sex offender bound for a prison cell.


“I shudder to think of the number of girls you have violated over the years of moving and changing your name,” she said. "(In prison) you will no longer be the powerful, in control person you have always strived to be. I’m sure in prison you will find there are many more people who are more powerful and more in control that you could have ever dreamed to be.”


“You ruined God for me,” she said. “I don’t understand church anymore.”


Stardust’s wife, Merry, also asked for leniency. She testified she doesn’t believe her husband goes looking for young girls but conceded he has made mistakes. “He really does love people. He goes out of his way to make people feel loved but he hasn’t always done that wisely,” she said.

Let It Rain

Focus on the Family Action pulled a video from its Web site Monday that asked people to pray for "rain of biblical proportions" during Barack Obama's Aug. 28 appearance at Invesco Field in Denver to accept the Democratic nomination for president.

Road-Ragin' Preacher

She testified the preacher pulled up alongside her car, pointed a gun at her, called her a name and asked if she knew who she was messing with before threatening to shoot.