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While we're on it...

What the shit is UP with the GOP? I mean, I thought my university administration had gone insane, but that was before I started watching the GOP try to run a candidate for the White House.

I can't decide who's fucken crazier, Santorum or Ron Paul. Romney ain't crazy, of course, he's just a bootlicker, trying to suck the ass of everyone he can if it will get him into the White House. And Gingrich, ha, he thinks evil is smart, which, I guess that's sad. I'd feel sadder about him if the crap he thinks is so smart to say didn't have real world consequences.

MEANWHILE: here in Arkansas, I actually have students who think some of these guys are viable candidates. Now that's depressing.

Armageddon

Tomorrow is the first day of September.

According to the forecast, we have YET ANOTHER high of 102 degrees coming straight at us.

I've lost count of how many days of above 100 this has been. Like a gazillion. It hasn't been under 90 here since May, I think.

Just WRONG.

Yeah, but Rick Perry says the scientists are inventing global warming to pad their funding. So, okay, then.

Oh, My

I know I shouldn't find this as delicious as I do.

It's just so sweet when justice (at least begins) to prevail.

Via Crooked Timber

The comments over there are especially worth reading.

What?

Over at P.Z.'s place, he's got a post up about the -- I don't know what I'd call them: advertisements sort of sounds wrong to me, but okay, we'll call them that: ads for atheism being runs in NY city subways.

The post isn't really about the ads, which are fairly non-controversial (Put up by the Coalition for Reason, all they say is A Million New Yorkers are Good Without God -- Are you?).  It's about that, oh, how shall we phrase this?  That miseducated, overpaid Fox-news Republican-Welfare recipient, Sean Hannity, who, having heard about these ads -- I'm guessing someone sent him a link -- hopped around on TV fulminating, "Can you imagine?  What if some Christian group ran pro-God ads in the subways?  Can you imagine the outrage?"

Dude.

Apparently Sean has been living in a cave, I would respond, except, well, he and his ilk are always responding this way, aren't they?  Almost everything they say makes it clear they don't live in the same reality as the rest of us.  They live on planet Wing-Nut, Planet Xtian Loon-O-Sphere, where Obama is trying to take their guns, where there really is a War on Christmas (despite the huge decorations being put up in my public park as we speak, and the aisles and aisles full of Christmas crap that has been for sale in every store in Fuck Smith for a good week already), where White Christian Males are the truly persecuted people in America, where those huge signs on I-40 (COME ON OVER TO MY HOUSE BEFORE THE BIG GAME THIS SUNDAY -- GOD) do not exist and where, as PZ points out, the hundreds of different sects of Xtian advertising in the subways and every other public space -- why, not allowed!  Just like no little Xtian boy or girl is allowed to pray over his school lunch or read the Bible at school!  Because of the evil Lie-brals!  Because we're the ones who hate!  We're the ones who are truly intolerant!  Not them!

Gah.