Indoctrination of children into religious belief systems is one of the great unpunished intellectual and social crimes of human history, and it continues almost unabated to this day.

Powerful, well-written stuff.

As an aside, I propose we start referring to militant atheists as “ghostbusters”. Who’s with me?

WHEREAS, throughout our history, both as a state and as individuals, Texans have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer; it seems right and fitting that the people of Texas should join together in prayer to humbly seek an end to this devastating drought and these dangerous wildfires;

Good thinking. God doesn’t give a fuck about your problems until state government gets involved.

It is not the role of government to protect us from ourselves.  This is a limitation of choice, and a limitation of freedom.  Anti-smoking is fashionable right now, and nobody wants to fight on the side of cancer, so this kind of “for your own good” legislation is easy to pass.  Try this shit with alcohol and see how far you get.

Now that America has been somewhat thickly settled for a few hundred years, it makes sense to divide the place up in a more natural way. A rough approximation might yield five regions: the Pacific States of America, Mountain States of America, Central States of America, Southern States of America, and Eastern States of America. A more nuanced approach might yield quite a few more [...]

Quite a few more?  Sure.  Let’s say fifty.  Ish.

As I have said many times, America is in danger of becoming an empire. But I don’t think that each state on its own (or even regional groupings of states) would have imperial ambitions or an interest in perpetual war and foreign occupation (thus removing the need for a standing army and the great expansion of central power that occurs each time the Federal Government wages war, since war is the health of the state).

For the sake of argument, would individual states (or regional groupings of states) have the power or fortitude to defend against a large threat?

“Think about how much you would have if you didn’t have any social security or income tax withheld from your pay check, or if you didn’t have to pay those taxes for January and February! Americans could take and invest their own money where they believe it should go – to paying down mortgages, buying a new car, making credit card payments.”

You should write your local Congressperson and tell them you support this idea.

On Nov. 4, the pro-gay community obviously was flabbergasted that a state that generally leans left actually voted right when it came to holy matrimony. But that’s exactly what happened; the majority of Californians — red, yellow, black and white — voted to define the margins of marriage as being between one man and one woman. California is the 30th state in our union to amend its constitution in doing so, joining Florida and Arizona in this election. Like it or not, it’s the law now. The people have spoken.

Ask yourself a simple question.  Would a loving, forgiving, benevolent God encourage the use of a constitution — a document designed specifically to protect and guarantee the rights of the people — to deny rights to an entire group based solely on their choice of who to love?

It’s sad that this man has an entire meme built around how awesome he is when, in reality, he’s nothing more than a frightened, ignorant little man.

(Via ziz – source)

He uses an Apple Mac laptop

Macbook Pro?  Air?  Come on, we need details.