War on Christmas Updates

Dispatches: More War on Christmas Idiocy
Regarding Pat Boone ...

What fucking universe do these people live in? I'd bet a month's pay that not once in Pat's entire life has even a single person ever objected to him saying "Merry Christmas" to them.


Pharyngula: We have a Problem ...

The archbishop of Wales thinks one of the greatest problems facing the world is "atheist fundamentalism"....

and we have presidential candidates pretending to talk to god, and getting standing ovations for it...
Respectful Insolence: Deirdre Imus gives everyone some stupid for Christmas

I've mentioned before that it irritates me that Don Imus is back on the air. It's not that I give a rodent's posterior that he made an offensive comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team that lead to his being fired from his previous gig. It's actually more because he somehow managed to displace the radio show that I usually listened to on my way to work in the morning

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While I'm recharging a bit from the Christmas festivities yesterday to the point where soon I'll be able to write a substantive post, full of the Respectful Insolence⢠and science or medicine that readers have come to expect, here's something to amuse (I hope).
I've written a number of times how blindingly stupid and irresponsible Deirdre Imus has been. Now, Don Imus has revealed he has prostate cancer, and he is apparently surprised.
Someone sent me a transcript of part of the appearance of Deirdre Imus on her husband's radio show that's been making the rounds in various discussion groups.
It seems the same questions keep coming up when looking at the cult leaders of the infectious disease promotion movement.