Bush Heckled by Avian Protester

Alright, I admit that the bird may have been a fan of Bush in reality. A rude and careless fan at best. However, I have to presume that even Bush supporters aren't this careless around the leader of the "free" world, and it was instead a minor but accurately aimed protest, instead. On the other hand, perhaps even nature itself has turned against the American "decider" and someone was fortunate enough to have caught the first attack.

This is what rednecks watch, Brian.

A clip from the ever hilarious Family Guy show, providing a glimpse into...well, you ought to see for yourself. (This is particularly and perhaps only funny if you a fan of Carl Sagan or have watched his long adored television series from the 1980, Cosmos.)

You're excommunicated! OK, maybe...not really...

Is the pope truly infallible? Sure, after his Secretariat of State "cleans" the transcript.

In this case, as MSNBC.com reports, Benedict had given a clear, "Yes...It is part of the (canon law) code," in answer to a reporter's question as to whether Mexican legislators who legalized abortion should be considered excommunicated. In a transcript released today, the "yes" was curiously missing after the Vatican fielded disgruntled reaction ever since the pope's response first hit the news. Apparently other changes were made as well, muting the response into...infallibility, we can only suppose.

Still, the best quote from the article, hands down, comes from Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao (though somehow I don't believe he is the first to coin the phrase) who remarked, "If men got pregnant, I'm sure this question would have been resolved a long time ago."

Playlists for the Democratic and Republican Presidential Debates

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Conservative Christians buck PBS for series on atheism

On May 4th, PBS will be showing a three part documentary on atheism that has raised the hackles of some within the Christian Right. Describing it as "demagogic and propagandistic" (sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it--browse the comment section of this blog's article Who is afraid of the Big, Bad Dawkins? if you don't know what I mean), it is amazing how threatening a documentary like this can apparently be to those of the firmly Right. Curiously, that seems to be the cue as to how they generate their own reaction, such as Janice Crouse who is quoted in a CBSNews.com article about the atheism series, and less than subtly threatens what is purportedly at stake by saying,"...airing the program gives credibility and cohesiveness to individuals who seek to undermine the beliefs and values on which democracy and the American dream are founded."

Right. That's the collective atheist goal. Not to mention, we're lacking credibility and so-called cohesiveness, even as Crouse is commenting on a documentary which details the long history of atheism and its pronounced intellectual and rational personalities. As though we just sprouted out of the ground with tin foil hats and all sort of wild and crazy ideas, bent on a (likely communist...can't you hear it under her breath?) goal of bringing down the American democracy.

I swear, Christians can be such simple-minded brutes who reflexively reject any sort of rational inspection or intellectual contemplation of anything that can be seen as threatening to their own world view and philosophy. Real open-minded folk, eh? I suppose, at least for those less-than-moderate Christians such as Crouse, the simple-minded sort of 'good vs. evil' and 'with us or against us' mentality is a powerful draw toward the conservative forms of Christianity they incessantly buzz about.