Whatever Happened To Jesus?
Well folks, here we are: 22nd May 2011. The Second Coming was yesterday, according to the lying fraudulent moron Harold Camping. To be fair, as we go to press, it’s still 21st May in some parts of the...
View ArticleA Neat Way To Attack Bigotry
I spend plenty of time ridiculing bigots on Twitter. Sometimes it works and makes them modify their behaviour, but some are just so thick-skinned they just won’t be deflected. Some of the worst bigots...
View ArticleHow The Religious Right Censored The UK Media
Although the Internet’s roots lie in defence and academic research projects in the 50s and 60s, it only exploded into the public consciousness in the mid-90s, after Tim Berners-Lee created the...
View ArticleIs The World Going To End On Friday?
Cast your mind back, if you can, to 21st May. You may remember Harold Camping predicting that the second coming of Christ would occur on that day. I blogged about this beforehand, and on 22nd May I...
View ArticleMoron Alphabet N-O
This is the latest in a series. See also: Moron Alphabet A-G Moron Alphabet H-J Moron Alphabet K-M N is for Nigerian Pastors Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, a rising power, and a land of...
View ArticleStrippers Are People Too
Following on from my recent post, Feminists Or Fascists?, this episode features in-depth interviews with two London strippers who have become political activists in order to protect their workplaces,...
View ArticleDoes Religion Cause Rape?
One argument made for religion by its proponents is that it instills in its believers a sense of morality that atheists can’t possess. This argument suggests that without religion’s stick-and-carrot...
View ArticleSave The World: Shag A Republican
It’s come to pretty much everyone’s attention that the world’s got a little more hostile and fucked-up over the past decade. Morons have been on the march, and chaos has resulted. Which is a shame,...
View ArticleThe Moronic Right and Attacks on Bill Maher
Being the product of an inner-London state education, I have to admit my Latin ain’t what it should be. When I first encountered the term ad-hominem, used frequently enough in online debate, I had to...
View ArticleFiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party
The Australian Sex Party is a recently-formed progressive political party, with a strong emphasis on civil liberties. Dismayed that none of the mainstream parties were prepared to stand up to lobbyists...
View ArticleBlack Jesus
I’ve blogged previously on some of the moronic theories surrounding Afrocentric thinking; this image, liberated from Facebook, illustrates one of my favourites. Like many nonsensical ideas, this is...
View ArticleTodd Akin Attacked For Being Stupid (Being Evil Is Fine)
Moron-watching is made both easy and fun, thanks to US Republicans. Barely a day passes without an insane outburst from a leading Republican politician or supporter; sometimes the utterances are so...
View ArticleThe Strippers Strike Back
We welcome back our striptease correspondent, Edie Lamort, who takes a look at the history of the attacks on her trade in the UK, and the fightback by the strippers. The bell may be about to sound for...
View ArticleThe “Evil Menace” of Page 3
It shouldn’t need stating that many social conservatives have a big problem with nudity. Mankind did, of course, start out naked – and in the benign climate of the African tropics where we began, there...
View ArticleTories, Abortion and Fundamentalists
Abortion has been legal and easily accessible in the UK since its legalisation in 1967, and there is little public support for a change to the law. However, it’s easy to get complacent – laws can be...
View ArticleMuslims, The Far-Right And Gay Rights
The distinctive difference between the European and American far-right is this: European fascism is often secular in nature, while the US variety fanatically adheres to fundamentalist Christianity....
View ArticleThe Coming West African Spring
West Africa is probably my favourite part of the world. It contains some of the oldest, most stable and (therefore) most developed human cultures on the planet. Its economic development (it probably...
View ArticleGay Marriage: Beware The Backlash
Yesterday, by 400 votes to 175, the House of Commons approved a marriage equality law that finally allows gay men and women to marry on (almost) the same basis as heterosexuals. It was a historic step...
View ArticleThe Islamification of the Conservative Party
Regular readers of this blog will remember the day last April when much of Britain finally got bored with the far-right English Defence League and its anti-Muslim propaganda, and dealt with it in the...
View ArticleBlaming Women For Rape
This blog recently carried an article by Edie Lamort on the current moral panic about pornography; here’s another article on the subject. This is no accident – most people will have noticed a sharp...
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