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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: January 31, 2006 2:46 PM, by PZ Myers
Our vampire candidate for governor, "the Impaler", has been arrested for "escape" and "stalking". I just have to say…Duh. What do you expect from a vampire?
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Off-topic:
Another politician is in need of ridicule. Perhaps you could supply some:
S.C. governor OK with intelligent design
Well then, why are there still mosquitoes?
BTW, the blockquote has a bug for quotes of more than one paragraph. You can see that I managed to work around it.
Posted by: Bayesian Bouffant, FCD | January 31, 2006 3:20 PM
It really isn't fair or accurate for the article to lump witches and pagans in with satanists. The last group are often just phonies who will have nothing to do with the first two, who are ethical people exploring pre-Christian religion, and who "get it" about evolution and don't believe in vampires or devils, or crystals, etc. I doubt that any Wiccan/Pagan that I know (or at least, those I will hang around with) would have voted for Sharkey.
Posted by: Kristine | January 31, 2006 3:46 PM
I just love the fact that he "converted" to satanism "after a bad break-up."
Some people just never get out of High School.
Posted by: craig | January 31, 2006 3:55 PM
Note stalking, not staking.
(I'm never going to get tired of that joke.)
Posted by: rew | January 31, 2006 3:58 PM
And there go GOP plans to "go Buffy on his ass". Can we get James Marsters to fill in for him while he's in jail, seeing as how at least Marsters has the musical talent our wannabe claims to have?
Posted by: Paul Riddell | January 31, 2006 4:31 PM
Usually, this would kill a candidate. But how will it affect the undead? Maybe this is good publicity to him.
Posted by: Kyle Potter | January 31, 2006 4:36 PM
In mitigation, he has been known to regurgitate food to share with others..
Posted by: Ian B Gibson | January 31, 2006 7:26 PM
"It really isn't fair or accurate for the article to lump witches and pagans in with satanists. The last group are often just phonies who will have nothing to do with the first two, who are ethical people exploring pre-Christian religion, and who "get it" about evolution"
Sorry, but the "Wiccans" are every bit as "phony" as the satanists. Wicca is *not* a "pre-Christian" religion, but a mid 1950's invention of Gerald Gardner, an English civil servant. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that any of the beliefs of Wicca have anything to do with any actual practices of pre-Christian peoples.
Not that I believe that the authentic practices would placate the non-existent supernatural forces, of course.
Posted by: Jonathan Badger | January 31, 2006 11:43 PM