Atheist Is The New Gay

I guess.

“Is everyone in favor of sponsoring a picnic for humanists with families?”

Oh, puke. Everyone knows atheist was cool like 5 years ago.

Seriously, queer shit is getting completely vanillified. Dude, you can get butt-married in Iowa, now.

Iowa.

So there's this terrible old joke: What does a humanist in the klan do at night?--Wears a hood to your lawn to burn question marks.

God Hates Wags

The legendary Fred Phelps clan, of fame for protesting soldiers' funerals and generally hating America and murder victims, has now struck Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.

My favorite quotation is from Susan Russell: "I mean, that sign -- 'You will eat your babies' -- that doesn't even mean anything."

Isn't this protest a bit esoteric even for Phelps? I mean, is he now reduced to harassing monuments to literary figures? What's next, Oscar Wilde's gravesite? That road where Bessie Smith died in Mississippi? How about all of Harlem, since Langston Hughes probably trawled the lot of it. Alexander The Great's furthest conquered territories? I could go on, but

Bea Arthur died and I need to mourn.

"I've never practiced true love." Vidal, 11 April 2009

Gore Vidal on Bill Maher's show. Covers all politics and culture right now; the first preludes with a fake "Barter Day" ad at Wal-Mart and the second begins, in media res, with a discussion of how the Romans did not recognize the difference between styles of sexualities.

Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMpQ1s1rbI
Part II is in the related content menu on the right.

You can find the complete by searching "real time" "bill maher" part4 and part5 and some variation of the date it aired, which is the 10 April edition (though aired live starting at the midnight of the 11th).

Vidal, re being a conservative: "Admittedly, I can read the New York Times without moving my lips, which is a sign of Communism."