Creationism

If the world were designed by a just God, refusing to be vaccinated wouldn't hurt anybody else.

Thanx to Making Light.

Whites-only club goes broke

Of course we're not post-racial, but if you're really stupid about race, it catches up with you.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Pedant at large

Oliver Willis is a smart guy who says things like "People have sex. It happens. Explain this to your kids, so they don’t die or kill someone." But he is fallible, and he said that Sarah Palin should be "reigned in." So I'm telling him, "Reined her in. No g. She's a horse, or portion thereof, rather than a queen."

Dueling holidays

"I like to eat latkes as much as the next Jew, and candlelight is lovely, but the glorification of Hanukkah by American Jews is another example of voluntary group self-deception. It's an exercise in collective bad faith in which everyone agrees to ignore what everyone knows to be true: that Hanukkah is a pissant holiday elevated beyond its status and intrinsic meaning for the glorification of toy manufacturers, greeting card companies, and the makers of chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil, in an effort to battle the cultural stranglehold of Christmas, an effort that never has been and never will be successful, if only because Hanukkah songs are so painfully lame."--Michael Chabon

Thanx to Jon Carroll

Hey, Rush, the gummint *is* trying to kill you

One way to convince people that (some) drugs kill is to add stuff to them to make it true. Thus poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, paraquat dropped on the marijuana fields in the 60s, and acetaminophen in hillbilly heroin.

Thanx to Unqualified Offerings

Kinda like Fred Phelps telling us Jerry Falwell is burning in Hell

Sarah Palin caught using "liberal, pro-choice, socialist terminology"

Thanx to Fragano Ledgister on Facebook