Bill O’Reilly tells us why businesses should love Merry Christmas:
Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming “Merry Christmas.”
As I wrote last December, Christmas is very much a commercial holiday. […]

I seem to be on some sort of list at this blog, which appears to be a fairly bad parody of conservatives.
Bizarrely, some commenters appear to be taking it seriously.

Well, it’s the final day of Thanksgiving break and I’m back at school. Hooray. I have too much to do these next two weeks. Finals week is actually a break for me. What’s really bad is the stuff I have to do isn’t difficult to complete, but it will take some work to do a […]

Seance - [Saltrubbed Eyes #00] Soulerosion
The Crown - [Crowned in Terror #09] Death is the Hunter
Neutral Milk Hotel - [In The Aeroplane Over The Sea #05] The Fool
Lacuna Coil - [Unleashed Memories #08] Distant Sun
Soilwork - [The Chainheart Machine #09] Room No. 99
Dead Can Dance - [Spleen and Ideal #03] Circumradiant Dawn
In Flames - [Lunar […]

Well, not really a shot.
It’s almost time for end of year album lists, so I’m trying to catch up with music I missed from earlier this year. So far, I’ve got Ulver’s Blood Inside, which I was too lazy to get in July. I still need Kayo Dot’s newest (assuming that counts as being released […]

If you haven’t been reading Neiwert’s evisceration of Malkin’s newest book, you should be.
I just wanted to point out one thing that relates back to the Salon article in the previous post:
The “conservative movement” of 2005 is nothing less than the ascendancy of the old right-wing John Birch Society mentality: the paranoia, the demonization, the […]

There’s an excellent article in Salon today about the so-called “war on Christmas.” A couple of choice excerpts:
In fact, there is no war on Christmas. What there is, rather, is a burgeoning myth of a war on Christmas, assembled out of old reactionary tropes, urban legends, exaggerated anecdotes and increasingly organized hostility to the American […]

There’s a silly anti-evolution letter in the paper today. Rather than take it apart, I want to look at a Bible verse he quotes at the end:
Religion does not change, and it shouldn’t. When scientists were teaching that the world was flat, the Bible was telling us, “He is seated on His throne above the […]

I apparently missed this church and state flap from about a week and a half ago. Rev. Barry Lynn of AU is complaining about Jeb Bush’s promotion of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe:
As part of Governor Jeb Bush’s “Just Read, Florida!” program, students are being encouraged to read The Lion, The Witch, and […]

How does a ~190 page book (paperback, mind you) become a nearly 7 hour audiobook?