Archive for January, 2009

Laugh While You Can, Monkey Boy

Friday, January 30th, 2009

TshirtHell.com is calling it quits. For several years now they’ve made it their goal to put out some of the most offensive humorous shirts available on the web and they’ve done a pretty good job of it. Now you’d think that when an organization with Hell in the name, and with a mission […]

Pins and Wheedles

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That’s one of the questions that ancient religious philosophers spent a bunch of time debating. I was once told that the real debate was not one of trying to find out a specific number but more one of trying to figure out […]

Speak Up

Friday, January 16th, 2009

It’s just a few days now till the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. This of course got God and me talking about the election again and I couldn’t help but complain some more about Proposition 8.
The thing is, from an analysis of exit polls and other data, […]

Exploitation

Friday, January 9th, 2009

There’s an old joke that under capitalism man exploits man, while under communism it’s the other way around. Like all the best jokes there’s a lot of truth in there, and, like a lot of truths about the human condition, I think it applies to religion too.
If you don’t get how man exploits man […]

2009 or Bust

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

So it’s over. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, New Year’s. The end of the year orgy of holidays. It’s time to stop partying and settle down to serious work.
A lot of people go into the holiday season with the best of intentions. They’ve been living mostly paycheck to paycheck but they’ve managed […]