Sep 282012
- A short visual history of the creepy Obama cult: I can only imagine how apoplectic people on the left would have been if George Bush cultivated this kind of creepy cult of personality.
- My Dog: The Paradox: The Oatmeal manages to be not only fabuously funny but terribly poignant.
- A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus’ Wife: “A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School [Karen King] has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’” … She repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question, she said.”
- AT&T Screwed up the iPhone 5 Launch: Way to out yourself as a ginormous douche, buddy.
- Pro-American Libyans Besiege Group Suspected in U.S. Envoy’s Death: The courage required for this just astounds me.
- “A rancid, corrupt way to report about science”: Did you see the story about rats fed GMO corn developing scads of tumors? Well, here’s some good reasons to be damn skeptical.