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March 2009[edit]

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Randroids are very funny.

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Before 2001, the Office of Legal Council was known as the "brains" of the Justice Department. Then Bush appointed John Yoo, and the OLC became the place to rationalize torture. Obama's choice to head the OLC -- a former ACLU and NARAL lawyer -- wants to release Bush era torture memos. Naturally, the fundies are out for her blood.

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Texas remains on the side of reality for one more day.

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Now Obama will have plenty of envelopes to send out his Christmas Holiday cards this year.

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A 19-year-old -- the secular son of liberal, non-fundy Christians -- transfers from Brown University to attend Jerry Falwell's Liberty Univeristy for one semester. Why? So he can write an expose that Publisher's Weekly has dubbed "religious gonzo journalism."

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Ames wishes PJR farewell. Hi Ames, nice to see you still read us.

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Religion-based analgesia. Liveblog of talk 4 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009

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Born Believers: the naturalness of childhood theism. Liveblog of talk 3 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009

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Divine Madness?. Liveblog of talk 2 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009

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Do ghosts get itchy? Mind, body and afterlife in cross-cultural perspective. Liveblog of talk 1 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009

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Absurdities in Genesis.

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Ted Haggard and his ironically named wife Gayle will appear on the TV series Divorce Court to discuss how divorce is not the answer to marital problems. (Problems like -- oh, I don't know -- your husband is a meth-smoking patron of gay prostitutes.) As if this couldn't get any funnier, the episode is scheduled to air on April Fool's Day.

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Godwin's Law is in effect in a piece about Wall street.

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Why Christianity?

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Anatomy of an Obama denialist lie.

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This is Dan. Dan likes the Army. Dan is gay. Andy, Get over it.

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Another argument that supports survival of the fittest. During poor economic times, men prefer women who are more "full figured."

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Big shakeup at Fox. Could a leftward shift be in the works?

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Ray can take no comfort when Eternal Critic answers his questions.

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Chuck Norris want to secede from the Union and form his Chucktatorship.

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The fat off the Republicans' pork.

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The dividing line between Fundy Loon and Deep-Cover Atheist becomes even blurrier for Ray Comfort.

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Is God evil?

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So, why does President Obama seem to be glossing over Dubya's criminal enterprise?

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The creationism of Ann Coulter.

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Obama's been in office two months, and already some nuts are calling for armed secession. Chuck Norris there might have taken a few too many roundhouse kicks to the head, but what's Hannity's excuse?

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God Hates Figs!

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The Gentlemen At Another Website keep insisting that Wikipedia is full of Liberal Bias. That's as may be, but now a bright fellow has come up with a way to trace what OTHER sorts of bias it might have, by tracking anonymous edits.

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Are you an angry rich person who's thinking of "Going Galt"? DailyKos says to get out, and take your indexed collateralized debt obligation options with you.

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The Discovery Institute's Trojan horse is empty.

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Time for the always-relevant question: "Why aren't these people in jail?". Today's edition: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs. Ballot-box stuffing, now at your fingertips!

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Irony meter alert: Marjorie Cohn, writing for AlterNet, waxes offended at recently-released memos speculating how Bush might have set himself up as a dictator. Then, in the same breath, she has the gall to call for the prosecution of the memos' authors for advocating violations of the U.S. Constitution. (It is, of course, perfectly constitutional to prosecute someone for writing a memo.)

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Rush is being pushed to the top of the GOP dungheap by... the Democrats?

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Three ways Christianity prolongs immaturity