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I am informed by Joshua Zelinsky that two new Chick tracts are available. They are, as expected, completely insane. Here are my summaries.
You can sell your soul to Satan for wealth, women, and fame, and if you accept Jesus in your last minutes on your deathbed, you still get to go to heaven!…
Sometimes I just can't get too angry about some particularly insane rant from a denialist. In this case, HIV/AIDS denialist, scientific medicine denialist and all-around crank Mike Adams rants about the prospect of food sterilization by irradiation:
Let's be blunt about this: The corporations…
tags: insanity, blog carnivals
The Labor Day edition of The Carnival of the Insanities is now ready for you to enjoy. This carnival highlights the insane, the bizarre, the ridiculous, and the completely absurd are highlighted for you to read about.
Matt Yglesias comments on one of Amy Sullivan's usual complaints about "secular liberal intolerance" in the most cynical, hypocritical way possible:
Now Amy's right. It would be useful, for the purposes of electoral politics, for liberals in the media to avoid expressing the view that the belief —…
Quick! Someone call UNESCO!
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No; not completely insane. This is just another way of digging for them. Some scientists use little trowels to dig with, while others, less patient scientists, prefer to take larger bites at it with 2000lb bombs.
When the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamyan they were just being sloppy in their archaeological excavation. Another case of professional differences in excavating technology.
Are they completely insane?
No, not at all. You see, the Pentagon is run by rabid right wing Christians, who, without a doubt, are new Earth creationists. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for them to actively seek to destroy any evidence of an old Earth.