Carnal Reason

Been busy lately, but I could not resist Mr. Deity. There’s a bunch more where that came from.

From Crackle: Mr. Deity and the Evil - Season 1, Ep 1

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by pwyll
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For years we have all heard the bleating from the left. The religious right is gonna git you. Falwell this, Baker that. The Christianist theocrats are scheming to take away women’s rights, and to kill the gays. They’re gonna reprogram your children. They’re going to launch crusades, nuke the whales, put an end to rock [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2008 by pwyll
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I want to consider one of the axioms of contemporary environmentalism. It is not often stated, but is widely held. Roy Spencer explains what I will call the principle of human toxicity:
There seems to be an unwritten assumption among environmentalists — and among the media — that any influence humans have on nature is, by [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 by pwyll
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Speaking in San Francisco, Obama made this now famous remark:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration [...]

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by pwyll
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The first time I saw the image above, I asked myself “What is wrong with this picture?”
The answer is simple. Obama’s halo is misplaced. That’s by design, of course. One wants to keep this kind of thing more or less subliminal. But it’s not working. Some of the more enthusiastic Obamites just [...]

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by pwyll
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I recently remarked that no religion should be beyond the reach of mockery. In a must-read post, Wretchard explains why:
What makes the Mohammed Cartoon attack on radical Islam so potent that Bin Laden himself must oppose it, is two things. First, anyone can make fun of radical Islam. Second, the Cartoons are aimed at [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2008 by pwyll
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