(2004-11-24) — Faced with the constititional prohibition against teaching about the Christian origins of Thanksgiving in public schools, the Maryland State Department of Education has rewritten its curriculum, and renamed the holiday 'Lucky Thursday'. Scott Ott of ScrappleFace with his usual ... Continue reading
Sartre Brigade deployed in Afghanistan
October 5, 2004 By
For Immediate Release: French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of GodThe clean-up portion of the ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the ... Continue reading
FLASH! CBS News reveals major scoop!
September 18, 2004 By
CBS News Claims Documents Disprove Christ's ResurrectionNEW YORK In yet another bold display of investigative journalism, CBS News has used anchorman Dan Rather and its 60 Minutes program to break a story about a document discovery they say disproves the Biblical account of the resurrection of ... Continue reading
The homily from hell
June 15, 2004 By
The Episcopal church has not been known of late for its fundamentalist leanings. So one wonders, what sort of homily might we have heard at President Reagan's funeral if the service had been in the hands of one of the Episcopal church's more liberal bishops? Douglas LeBlanc at Get Religion has ... Continue reading
Cheap hotels and ceiling fans
April 18, 2004 By
We spent Saturday at the home of a friend renovating his "new" house. It's a fixer-upper, so before moving in there's a lot they want to accomplish. My job was to prepare each room for a ceiling fan.In principle, it's a no-brainer. You install a heavy brace in the ceiling to take the weight of ... Continue reading
