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Sunday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  September 19, 20105:25 pm| 51 Comments

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Cartoonist Tim Eagan takes on the Christianists.

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  1. 1.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 19, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Very…not nice, but apt. Not even funny, really, because it’s true. Sigh.

    Plus, fuck sports! #Shakes fist at sports gods#

  2. 2.

    quaint irene

    September 19, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Newt, if it’s possible, has gone even further off the rails. How do these lunatics (Angle, O’Donnell, etc.) still get a free pass on the bullshit they spew? Newt is still booked on news shows as a political ‘pundit.’

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    September 19, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    The rain in Seattle is wrong. It’s raining at a rate of .75 inches per hour. It’s supposed to be this light drizzle. The rain is broken. Please fix it.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 19, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    @MikeJ: There should be a valve on the back that you can adjust. Give it a try.

  5. 5.

    Susan Kitchens

    September 19, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    Have you heard the good news?

    Jesus died to take away your brains.

  6. 6.

    gizmo

    September 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    I don’t bother with burning holy books. I download them to the hard drive, then delete ’em….

    Teabaggin’ in the digital age !

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    September 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oddly enough, the rain has now stopped. The sun is out, the sky is a weird color like green with all the yellow taken out. If you step outside, it sounds like it is raining because of the water falling off the trees, but none is falling from the few clouds that remain.

    I guess I turned the valve too far.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 19, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    @MikeJ: Well, you know where it is now.

  9. 9.

    quaint irene

    September 19, 2010 at 6:04 pm

    Well, one thing to be thankful for. Honey Crisp apples are back in season.

  10. 10.

    Susan Kitchens

    September 19, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    Wow, between my *cough* version of the good news and reading of those who are troubleshooting the Seattle rain valve (which, you know, takes brains), I’m half tempted to draw conclusions of religious belief.

    But only half tempted. (Plus, I’m resisting it)

    @MikeJ, glad you got it fixt.

    And @gizmo, I like your solution… I call the place that deleted files go “file heaven”

  11. 11.

    Zifnab

    September 19, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Have you folks tried praying?
    I hear that worked in Georgia.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    September 19, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    @MikeJ: Green with all the yellow taken out is blue. Not weird for sky. Well, unless you’ve come back in time from post-apocalpyse America, or you’re from Seattle. Oh yeah…

    I wonder what kindergarden refrigerator pictures look like in Seattle?

  13. 13.

    Martin

    September 19, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    @Susan Kitchens: Do deleted files get to have sex with 72 blank documents?

  14. 14.

    Bruuuuce

    September 19, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    @Martin: Green with all the yellow taken out is blue.

    For pigments, sure. But not in pixels. Neither RGB nor CMYK (not to mention systems like HSB) work that way.

    @asiangrrlMN: At least the Rays also lost, what with the Yankees throwing away another game. (That is what you’re talking about, right? Ain’t nothing else going on that matters until after the World Series ends. :-)

  15. 15.

    Bruuuuce

    September 19, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    Posted separately to avoid moderation: This is a great photo of Sir Ian McKellan at the rally against Pope Palpatine in London: http://twitpic.com/2pq44x

  16. 16.

    Susan Kitchens

    September 19, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    And other examples of using religious language to describe digital phenomena:

    10 years ago, I freaked out my mother by spending, in her presence, $200 to purchase a 64 MB compact flash memory card for additional space on my digital camera. (location: Panama’s Zona Libre, one big duty free area.)

    Earlier this week, I helped her buy a digital camera, and then grabbed a 4GB SD card. I told her she needed this to hold the pictures. “It’s like the film, Mom.” She asked, “how much is it?” with wariness in her eyes. “Oh, around fifteen bucks,” I said. Was she remembering that huge expense for memory from before? I didn’t want to bore her with all the minutiae of Moore’s Law, so I added, “The thing about digital memory is that as time goes on, they regularly double the number of digital angels who can dance on the head of a pin.”

  17. 17.

    Ash Can

    September 19, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    @Martin: Only if they make your whole system crash upon being deleted.

  18. 18.

    Susan Kitchens

    September 19, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    @Martin:

    So THAT is how computer viruses get spread!!

  19. 19.

    Lauren

    September 19, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Zifnab, stop making snarky comments on blogs!

  20. 20.

    Bubblegum Tate

    September 19, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    @gizmo:

    Look, somebody burned a copy of the Koran: http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/chron1.png

  21. 21.

    Ab_Normal

    September 19, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    @MikeJ: You sent the rain to Spokane, thanks a bunch. ;)

  22. 22.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 19, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    @Bruuuuce: That and the Vikings losing. Harrumph.

  23. 23.

    jwb

    September 19, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: Didn’t see any of the game today. Please tell me that Favre played poorly enough that he may be in danger of losing his job.

    Actually, I’m more upset about the Twinks losing to Oakland. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs would be awful nice.

  24. 24.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 19, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    @MikeJ: My brother and his wife are in Seattle on vacation. Figures. He spent his childhood in detention and the ER. Crap follows him. He has his own personal crap-cloud over his head, like a South Pacific atoll or an Aegean island.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 19, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    @jwb: He played horribly. I don’t think his job is in danger, though. And, yeah. The Twins losing sucks, too.

  26. 26.

    Keith G

    September 19, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    @Bruuuuce: Thanks for the link to Sir Ian McKellan.

  27. 27.

    shoutingattherain

    September 19, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Picture of the Day:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonstripgoatee/5005331505/

  28. 28.

    Ahasuerus

    September 19, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    @shoutingattherain: Snicker

  29. 29.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 19, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    In honor of talk like a pirate day: Lady Smudge is in ur boxes, sayin’ “Aarrghhh, matey!”. Yes, she likes them boxes.

  30. 30.

    Ash Can

    September 19, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Obligatory Simon’s Cat link.

  31. 31.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 19, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    @Ash Can:
    Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before, matey

  32. 32.

    Ruckus

    September 19, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:
    I thought I was the only one directly related to Murphy.

  33. 33.

    Bruuuuce

    September 19, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    @Keith G: De nada. Always glad to share.

  34. 34.

    Mike in NC

    September 19, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    The Gingrich cartoon’s a keeper.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Mary

    September 19, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    @Bruuuuce: Aaaaaawesome — but, sadly, it’s ‘shopped. But I wonder if Ian would have worn it anyway if it had been made available as a real shirt and not pixels?

  36. 36.

    Joseph Nobles

    September 19, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    Oh, man, the Republicans may yet destroy themselves…

    Karl Rove today took Christine O’Donnell’s spot on Fox News Sunday and explained several problems with her candidacy (and also challenged Palin to get her rear to Delaware and defend her candidate), and O’Donnell fought back at the Sussex County GOP picnic:

    Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell responded to old clips that surfaced over the weekend where she said she had once “dabbled in witchcraft,” clarifying at a GOP picnic in Delaware Sunday, “I was in high school, how many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school? But no, There’s been no witchcraft since, if there was, Karl Rove would be a supporter.”
    __
    The jab at the former President George W. Bush senior adviser came after Rove had cast doubt on her ability to carry the state for the GOP and said there are too many questions about her past.

    You know, her comeback doesn’t even make sense unless you’re calling Karl Rove a demon or a devil. Sure, you’d do that if you were on the left, but from the right? It looks like popcorn time.

  37. 37.

    Cacti

    September 19, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    Now, now Karl.

    Don’t make Boss Limbaugh have to get out of his chair again.

  38. 38.

    MikeJ

    September 19, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    I think Rove would rather appear smart than loyal. He knows she’s going down in flames[1] and he doesn’t want to be seen backing a loser.

    [1] an activity that happened when I dabbled in witchcraft. Not recommended unless you like getting your face singed.

  39. 39.

    Ash Can

    September 19, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    @Cacti: Maybe Rove figures that if he hasn’t been sent up the river for war crimes by now, he’s invincible. It does make we wonder what Limblow’s going to do this time. Talk like that can’t possibly make him happy.

  40. 40.

    Cain

    September 19, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    @Ab_Normal:

    @MikeJ: You sent the rain to Spokane, thanks a bunch. ;)

    If you ask me, it was O’Donnell doing her wiccan thing and sending rain over to the northwest.

    We just started rain again here. Bah.

    cain

  41. 41.

    RedKitten

    September 19, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    @Comrade Mary: What a shame. If the shirt had TRULY read “I’m Gandalf and Magneto AND Gay. Get over it,” I think global warming would have been utterly cancelled out from the sheer amount of cool emanating from that one spot.

  42. 42.

    drkrick

    September 19, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    The first panel isn’t so far off. When a local controversy about a Saudi-funded school popped up in the DC suburbs (Loudoun County, VA) about 15 years ago, the proprietor pastor of one of the local megachurches did a little research into Islam and reported to the county council in surprise that “these people aren’t Christian!”

  43. 43.

    Eli Rabett

    September 19, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    The hate on Islam goes a long way back in the think tanks. Take a look at this trash from Cato
    The Green Peril”: Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat by Leon T. Hadar

  44. 44.

    West of the Cascades

    September 19, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    Anne,

    thanks again for calling these ratfuckers “Christianists.” They’re not Christians.

    WotC + 4

  45. 45.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    September 19, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Jesus died only to return as a zombie and take away your brains.

    Fix’t.

  46. 46.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    September 20, 2010 at 12:03 am

    @Ab_Normal:

    Yer is in Spo-kane? My condolences. We moved out of that shithole in ’92 and fortunately only return to visit family who insist on staying there. Ok place to visit but wouldn’t want to live there again.

  47. 47.

    Susan Kitchens

    September 20, 2010 at 1:16 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Thanks. Once I said “brains” (vs, say, “mind”), I knew there was a Zombie angle. So glad you pointed that out.

  48. 48.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    September 20, 2010 at 1:28 am

    @Susan Kitchens:

    No problem, I am a firm believer in Zombie Jesus! Evidence of his existence literally surrounds us. :)

  49. 49.

    Bruuuuce

    September 20, 2010 at 3:51 am

    @Comrade Mary: How unfortunate that it wasn’t worn that way in RL. Thanks for the tip.

    It’s still awesome, though. (And if his characters fought each other, which would win? :-)

  50. 50.

    LanceThruster

    September 20, 2010 at 4:12 am

    @Susan Kitchens:

    Jesus had a bad weekend for your sins.

  51. 51.

    Ab_Normal

    September 20, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Thanks for the condolences. :D Staying here through the spawn’s high school; fortunately, she’s a senior this year. ‘Course, there’s the issue of staying employed so we can afford university…

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