I see stupid people

The post described here is sure to disappear soon, but the gist of the story is of an anti-choicer (you know, "the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth") who based his essay excoriating liberal attitudes on a piece from the Onion.

In typical Onion style, the piece depicts a ditzy teen saying things like

I am totally psyched for this abortion!

Those pro-life activists made it pretty clear that, unlike me, they actually think abortion is bad and to be avoided. Are they nuts? Abortion is the best!

He goes on to deplore all this. The poor nitwit obviously wouldn't recognize satire if it ran up and bit him on the leg. Which it did here, to the amusement of many.

In Ohio evolution recently won out in the State Board of Education, as clear heads recognized that singling out Darwin for criticism was, as shown in Kitzmiller, illegal religious establishment. A new initiative, seemingly meant to secularize ignorance, would mandate questioning of both evolution and global warming.

This story from Oklahoma isn't funny, but has a somewhat happy ending.

To make it short, an atheist girl in high school was kicked off a sports team because she wouldn't join in team prayers; abuse ensued; school officials lied; the principal assaulted the father; police and principal perjured themselves to press charges against him; threats were made to try and drive the family out of the state.

The defense in the criminal trial managed to get a jury of twelve who did not believe that athiests drink puppy blood, and who acquitted the father. A civil suit, and a major damage award, may likely follow.

A church in Memphis spent 260 thousand dollars to erect this seventy-two foot monstrosity. Inscribed on the crown is "Jehovah." What? YHWH is a female? Who knew?

And how stunningly ignorant is it that the Ten Commandments (held by "Liberty," or whoever it is here) are always depicted with Roman Numerals.

The Memphis people were obviously competing with this Ohio church's horror, known by various wags as "Touchdown Jesus" or my favorite, "Quicksand Jesus."

(Credit to Mike the Mad Biologist for the tagline.)