As we cross the threshold of 1500 U.S. deaths…
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| Actual people being blown to bits every day, and an FCC which has allowed corporate consolidation to eviscerate the news itself | ||||
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| A three-second glimpse of a human female nipple | ||||
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| Actors pretending to be eviscerated while using naughty, naughty words | ||||
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| Actors pretending to be eviscerated | ||||
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And in this supposedly developed country, scores of millions of people seem to think that self-flattering displays of religiosity will somehow help fix everything, that what we need isn’t more rational thought, but less.
That is so profoundly misguided words fail me. Fortunately, someone more articulate has already spoken:
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
— Thomas Jefferson, 1813
New poll at left.