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Trump appoints the author of such works as The Law of Attraction & Prosperity Bible – The Illuminati Wealth Manifesto & Codex, The Illuminati Handbook – The Path of Illumination and Ascension, and Rosicrucian and Masonic Spirituality & Secrets – The Handbook [HuffPost]
Better Bible
Jul. 12th, 2019 06:07 amMiriam Adelson, wife of a successful gambling kingpin, was given America’s highest civilian award by a failed gambling kingpin. As repayment, she believes the Bible should add a Book of Trump [USA Today]
Heavy-handed imagery in real life
Mar. 9th, 2017 05:52 pmLawyer, lawyer, pants on fire (at an arson trial)
Kleptocracy
Nov. 23rd, 2015 04:53 pmIn 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did.
Never assume you're being cynical enough. Yesterday, I posted about Republicans rushing to embrace antivax nonsense, and I may have thought that was as bad as it could get. Then Sen. Thom Tillis said that businesses shouldn't have to force employees to wash their hands after using the toilet. Hey, germ theory isn't in the Bible, so it can't be that important.
Nobody's perfect
Jun. 27th, 2014 04:20 pmMichigan GOP candidate: Ignore my arrests for publicly masturbating in other people’s cars
A candidate running to represent Michigan’s 95th House district in the state legislature wants you to know that once you look past his bizarre sexual fetish and multiple felony convictions, he is a rock-ribbed conservative Republican, whose “stool of conservatism” is held up by “faith, family and freedom.”
They take blasphemy seriously in Pakistan
May. 13th, 2014 12:57 pm78 lawyers have been arrested for blasphemy:
A complainant told the police his feelings had been hurt when some lawyers ridiculed a police officer who shares his name with the second Caliph, Omar.
Wiseasses like me frequently mock young-earth creationists and other science deniers by suggesting that they turn their attentions to the heresy of Godless heliocentrism. One of them (who has similarly plausible beliefs about the Holocaust being faked) has done precisely that, using clips from real scientists and Star Trek's Captain Janeway out of context to pretend that they believe that nonsense too.
Thanx to Tor.com.
Thanx to Tor.com.
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