A Spy in the Temple

Theological Spelunking
On Tuesday past I went down the rabbit hole with silvertide, Laura, Jim and Liz on the Apostasy Tour of the soon-to-be-dedicated Manhattan Temple of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You can see Bill’s blog for the in-depth report, Part One of which he’s already posted. It is, as always, fascinating to follow Bill as he unpacks Mormon theology and sociology. I was just there for the hot chicks.

Song Sung “Blue”

Eric Idle’s screamingly funny ballad to the Bush administration: The FCC Song.
From silvertide

Kurt Vonnegut In These Times

Kurt Vonnegut on the current administration in an interview in the January 2003 issue of In These Times:

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”

Vonnegut’s current article, Cold Turkey is also a good, if depressing, piece.

Top Monkey

From c3fyn

Meta-Commentary

Neal Pollack offers thoughtful, well-reasoned advice to those commenting on the war in Iraq in Shut Up!

Cal Thomas, you hypocritical douche-monkey. Shut up.

There’s lot’s more to Pollack’s piece, and this entire issue of The Stranger is pretty good.