Archive for June, 2007

Jo Hovind Gets Time

Friday, June 29th, 2007

The Pensacola News Journal has the news about Jo Hovind’s sentencing: Jo Hovind, the wife of creationist theme-park owner Kent Hovind, stood solemnly beside her attorney Friday as U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers handed down a sentence of one year and one day in federal prison. Jo Hovind, 51, also was ordered to pay $8,000 in fines […]

Debbie Schlussel Tests Poe’s Law

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Pop quiz: read the following and try to figure out whether it’s serious, or a parody of right-wing conservatives: Yale researchers found that male Congressmen with daughters are more likely to vote for “reproductive rights”–the sanitized phrase for abortion: […] The conclusion they want you to get from this is that pro-life Congressmen are insensitive to women […]

I Slept Through the Nuclear War… Again

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Long-time readers may remember Yisrayl Hawkins, who predicted that a nuclear war would start on Sep. 12, 2006. Some of you may be wondering why CNN didn’t mention this rather newsworthy event. Simply put, on that day, Paris Hilton’s parents visited her in prison, so the media couldn’t take time out to report on anything as […]

Jo Hovind Update

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Kent Hovind’s site reports that his wife Jo will be sentenced tomorrow, Jun. 29, at 9:00 a.m. I guess we’ll see what happens.

No Bong Hits 4 Jesus!

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The Bong Hits 4 Jesus case has been decided. The Supreme Court found that the student was in the wrong, 5-4. Quick recap: in 2002, when the Olympic torch was passing through Juneau, Joseph Frederick’s High School class went across the street to watch. Frederick unfurled a sign that said “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS”. The principal […]

AIG’s Creation Museum

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I’ve finally written up my visit to the Creation Museum.

Is This Really What Passes for Thinking Among Theologians?

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

dlighe pointed me at an article in Christianity Today by Alvin Plantinga, The Dawkins Confusion. He seemed to find it interesting, and there are a lot of links to it from the blogosphere, and they seem to agree that it’s a good, solid refutation of Dawkins’s The God Delusion. To which I can only say, WTF?