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I hate doing two YouTube videos in a row, but I completely forgot that I wanted to put this video up for Darwin Day. (And I need one more post to make it exactly 23 for February.) It's heavy metal rocker/spoken word artist/talk show host Henry Rollins doing an excellent rant on why evolution is so important and why fundies need to DIE DIE DIE!!! Enjoy.

There's a new site out there called Skeptically Pwned. Their unholy mission is to seek out proponents of pseudoscience, woo, and quackery and kick them square in the jimmies. Victim #1: TV psychic John Edwards.

Speaking of crazy religious leaders, James Dobson officially stepped down as chairman and CEO of Focus on the Patriarch Family on Wednesday. Dobson cited age and the need for a good succession plan as the reason for him leaving:

"One of the common errors of founder-presidents is to hold to the reins of leadership too long, thereby preventing the next generation from being prepared for executive authority," Dobson said in a statement. "... Though letting go is difficult after three decades of intensive labor, it is the wise thing to do."

He'll still be broadcasting his radio show where he is the most popular right-wing Christian mullah. Hopefully, as Dobson slips into senility, we can get even more gems like when he compared homosexuality to pedophilia or that liberals despise America or when he called Foleygate a harmless prank.

Artist (and writer of the Bad Ass Mother Fucker blog) Evan Roth just finished a book called "Available on the Internet for Free" and to celebrate he made stickers!





The book (warning PDF!) is pretty interesting too. Kinda reminds me of Intermittens but with slightly worse layout. Evan is a great artist who is a constant promoter of open source. He's getting close to Discordian sainthood but hasn't quite earned it yet. He needs to step up the lulz.

Almost every single college in the United States has a Democrat student organization. That's a given. Most young people are Democrats by default and college educated people more so. One of the last places you'd expect to see such a group is ultra-conservative strong hold and Pat Robertson's personal fiefdom, Regent University. Robertson has hitched his wagon to the Republican party since the days of Reagan and even ran for president himself back in 1988. For the Democratic party to get any kind of foothold in the school he founded more than thirty years ago is quite a coup, but I guess times they are a changing:

Carlos Campo, Regent’s vice president for academic affairs, said Robertson gave his thumbs up to the new group.

“He said, ‘You know what, it reflects the openness of our campus and how open we are to sharing of ideas,’” Campo said of his talk with Robertson.

Brandon Carr, Regent Democrats’ vice president, described the group as “Democrats and independents who want to be Christian leaders to change the world … explaining to others how you can be a Christian and agree to some Democratic principles as well.”

As a Christian-based school, Regent has a strongly evangelical, charismatic accent, and all faculty are expected to be Christians. They sign a statement binding them with Regent’s Christian beliefs, such as the infallibility of the Bible.

Granted, the group has only about 30 members so far, but I guess you've gotta start somewhere.

I now have moral justification for buying myself a Kindle. Now I just have to wait for my stimulus check to reach my checking account!



(I couldn't post the comic in line because my blog is teh ghey doesn't have enough girth. Go check it out at xkcd, instead.)

Jonathan Jarvis, a graduate student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, has put together a great video explaining exactly why our current financial meltdown happened and why we will all be living in dumpsters in the near future. FUN!


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.