“J.F.K.’s speech was to reassure Americans that he wasn’t a religious fanatic…Mitt’s was to tell evangelical Christians, ‘I’m a religious fanatic just like you.
- Jon Krakauer, quoted in the New York Times.
If you haven’t already had the opportunity, I’d recommend Krakauer’s excellent and frightening book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, [...]

“Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.”
–Mitt Romney, speaking today, Thursday December 6th.
Mitt Romney, shut the fuck up.
Seriously.
Combining ideas like ‘freedom’ and ‘religion,’ and making [...]

-There’s a new planet! It’s the first to be discovered that has the potential for an Earth-like atmosphere. It’s in the constellation of Libra, and it has a temperature (on average) of 32-104 degrees. That sounds nicer than Chicago. Scientists theorized that watr could exist in liquid form, so everyone’s excited about that. Unfortunately, it’s [...]