London Film Festival preview: Religulous
Fundamentalist atheism is as old as religion, and possibly time. Back in a less liberal era, the 16th century, the playwright Christopher Marlowe got into trouble for trashing religion as a translator of the classical author Ovid (”God is a name, no substance, feared in vain“), as well as in his own stuff (”I count religion but a childish toy“).
US comedian Bill Maher shares a lot of Marlowe’s sentiments; he believes “faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.” Religulous is the result of taking that idea to some very religious people and basically bashing them over the head with it.
Obama / McCain II: Electric Boogaloo
There will be liveblog. If I can stay awake.
The verdict: THAT ONE (no looking at him!)
About Palin’s terrorism thing…
Among some funny / scarily believable eyewitness observations on a Tina Fey-lookalike rally, writer and activist Linda Milazzo makes an excellent point against Palin’s frankly sort of random “Obama hangs out with terrorists” chat: as though certain “pro-life” or homophobic people haven’t ever indulged in some light bombing, maiming and killing! Come on!
Let us not forget the health-care workers who were murdered by anti-choice radicals who share Palin’s no exceptions for abortion beliefs. Let us not forget the women and family clinics that were bombed. Let us not forget Eric Rudolph - the anti-abortion terrorist who killed two people and injured 100 others during the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. The same Eric Rudolph who bombed abortion clinics that killed even more people.
Well. Yes. Wikipedia has a few examples. The sanctity of life is best protected when people are murdered.
More after the jump!
VP debate, SNL version
Oh god, this is just brilliant. Click through for the clip on Gawker.
First Palin sketch - with Hillary
Second Palin sketch - with Katie Couric
The winner: Joe Biden
This was just one of many very good responses:
“ Look, let’s talk about the “maverick” John McCain is.”
Transcription after the jump!
Sarah Palin: “[McCain] is the man we need to leave - lead.”
Really enjoying Joe Biden in the VP debate right now. Palin is over-rehearsed, sounding like a fembot, robotically spewing the keypoints out - Biden is nicely, but soundly, picking holes in her coached chat. He really knows his stuff.
At the end of it all: my little tuppence of a verdict. Joe = really good. Sarah didn’t fluff her lines, but answer questions she did not.
Sarah Palin’s debate lowlights:
The frenetic liveblogging after the jump…
The joke, it is over
Top search for this blog today:
“replace sarah palin”
Second:
“how is bristol palin doing”
Cute!
Srsly, though, time for this strange little sideshow to make like a tree and get out of there.
“Katie, I’d like to use one of my lifelines”
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler mock the almost-unmockable horrorshow of an interview - when Sarah Palin met Katie Couric.
Popular searches: What about Biden?
Palin, Palin, Palin [just misspelled as 'Plain', whoops] - that’s all you people want! I had to remind myself of who Obama’s running mate / possible future usurper even was, hence the picture and some serious Biden tags on this post. Come on! He’s a hilarious character, non? There’s a whole site of cartoons about him! What about this:
