the otherwhirled

Because I’m an egotistical son-of-a-dork. But in case you were wondering, or in case you weren’t, yes, this is the singular subject on which I have somehow managed to communicate coherently over the past year-plus. The Bat seriously makes me wish I had more time to actually write. Well, maybe that’s changing, and maybe that’s [...]

“Oh! Blimey! That Obama’s Out to get me!” photo credit: unattributed Technorati Tags: blog against theocracy anti-theocracy religious hegemony separation of church and state

“Yo! The King’s Got Yer Happy Meal right here, MuthaFuckah!” photo credit: Getty Images Technorati Tags: blog against theocracy anti-theocracy religious hegemony separation of church and state

“Heh-heh. Waitaminnit! Ag gets where ta light it, but where do Ah suck?” photo credit: AFP/Pool/Alessandra Tarantino Technorati Tags: blog against theocracy anti-theocracy religious hegemony separation of church and state

One of the main things I see at the root of these attempts for a theocratic state is sciolism. Last year for this blogswarm, I wrote two posts on this subject. To get things started off this year, please allow me to draw your attention to those two posts again. I think they’re worth [...]

Look, this is a real simple thing. The country was founded by mostly-Christian individuals who were possessed of the foresight, maturity, and wherewithal to understand that the edicts of the religions and religious denominations had no place with an operable role in government. In fact, they made incredible sacrifices to distance themselves from their European [...]

i had three posts in the works for the March 19 Blogswarm, and as it happened, i neglected to have them saved in the Wordpress database. thanks to some beta software on this computer, when i hybernated the computer because three realtors were bringing prospective buyers through our house yesterday (one of whom didn’t call [...]