Twilight TOTALLY Invented Werewolves

According to a (hopefully fake) email sent in to a movie review website by some tween fuckwit, Universal Studios should be ashamed for ripping off the whole “werewolf” concept from the Twilight franchise.  Oh, and also for doing a bad job of it and making the werewolf ugly, instead of totally dreamy like the gay indian kid in Twilight.

I weep for our future.

In an article that somehow does not contain the words “kook”, “loony” or “wackadoo”, ever reliable and not-at-all-biased Fox News reports that some people are afraid of a pink Ouija board.  Seriously.  In 2010, there are still people who think there are evil spirits trying to attack us through board games.

Everybody knows the evil spirits attack us through popular music and dancing.  That’s just science.  (via Boingboing)

Following in the grand tradition of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, I was overjoyed to find Sarah Palin Parking Lot.  How dumb are people willing to wait in line for 8 hours to meed a vice presidential failure and gubernatorial quitter?  This dumb.  (via Boingboing)

Still a week to go before Thanksgiving, but all the stores are already pushing the traditional Christmas values of joy, understanding, and buying stuff on credit.  Unfortunately, they’re not pushing quite hard enough for some people.  Yep, there are already good christian soldiers massing to wage a war against the “war on Christmas”.  Say “Happy holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”?  You’re the enemy.  Don’t mention Christmas prominently enough in your holiday sales flier?  To hell with you.  Apparently anybody who dares to acknowledge the existence of the half-dozen other religious holidays that happen in late December is guilty of “persecuting” the poor, downtrodden fundies.  (via Digg)

Bill Maher is kind of a douche, but he’s a funny douche.  He’s also dead on with his commentary about the lunatic fringe that refuses to accept the mountains of evidence that President Obama was actually born in the US.

And there’s nothing anyone can do to convince these folks. You could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate and have a video of Obama emerging from the womb with Don Ho singing in the background … and they still wouldn’t believe it.

Which raises the question: Why, in this country, is it always the religious right that won’t take anything on faith?

So far, the reaction from Democrats is to laugh this off, and I understand why. If you seriously believe that President Obama is an African sleeper spy, get out of your chat room and have your house tested for lead.

He’s also right that these people are dangerously crazy.  Why is it that anti-war protesters and freedom of speech advocates are investigated as terrorists while certifiably insane birthers are allowed to run around unchecked?  (via Boingboing)

EDIT:  Here’s a fun graph of birthers by region.  Some stereotypes exist for a reason.

Why must patriotism and stupidity always go hand in hand?  I know correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but the evidence really is mounting.  (via Digg)

Not exactly timely, but funny is still funny.

Happy 4th of July.

I have nothing but respect for the LGBT community, and I don’t have anything against immigrants either (if I was born in Mexico, I’d want to move here too).  But when you’ve made a political career out of being solidly against things like Mexicans and man-love, there’s something a bit hypocritical about absconding to Mexico with your boyfriend to try to fix his immigration status.  At least (former) San Angelo mayor J.W. Lown had the sense to resign before he was lynched.

Lown has stated that he would like to return to San Angelo, if the community will accept him.  It doesn’t seem likely, since he won the most recent election with an 89% majority running on an ultra-conservative platform.  They’ll forgive a lot of things in west Texas, but porking Pablo isn’t one of them.

Pope Benedict:  Ignorant Jackass

In a staggeringly display of cluelessness, Pope Benedict actually said this week during his visit to Africa “It (AIDS) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem.”

Tell that to Uganda, the only African country to have significantly reduced the prevalence of HIV in its population in the last 20 years - almost exclusively due to proper education and distribution of condoms.

Nobody expects the Pope to have much of a grasp on science or anything that really matters, but insisting that condoms increase the spread of HIV is tantamount to claiming the sky is green.  The rest of the Vatican is already backpeddling and trying to cover for this latest bit of idiocy.