“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, which tells the story of the Mormon church, which is more interesting and disturbing than you might think.

“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 them sound inseparable, is as asinine as telling someone they’re either with you or against you. The concepts, while often intertwined, are not the same damn thing. And more often then not, religion is used to extinguish freedom, often under the maxim, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.”

Shut up, Mitt Romney, and go back to that hole you crawled out of.

Wow, am I angry.

-Good thing we’ve found a new planet, cause this one’s going down the drain. Apparently somewhere close to 25% of the word’s bee population has disappeared. Now, it’s somewhat well know that I’ve got a phobia about bees. I don’t want them anywhere near where I can hear or see them, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want them on my planet. See, we need them to make the plants grow, and we need those things to eat. A friend told me yesterday that Einstein said that ‘After the bees go, we’ve got four years left.’ Scary thought.

-’This American Life’ is the greatest thing around. I’ve been getting it on podcast from NPR, and I’m addicted. I’m not sure what day it comes on, and so I check each day to see if I’ve got a new episode. Ira Glass did a voice on ‘Mr. Sprinkles’ on Acceptable TV this week, which is really bizzare (according to their blog, he’s a fan of ‘Who Farted,’ and is embarassed to admit that on NPR). Here’s the link to Mr. Sprinkles 5: http://acceptable.tv/contest/tv/videos/1546-Mr-Sprinkles-5

You should watch all of them. they’re really disturbing.

-Mormons wear special underwear. Are you aware of this? They’re called Temple Garments, and they are a very personal thing to those wacky Utah residents. What’s really weird is that the male version appears to have a codpiece, and both men’s and women’s have what seems to be masonic imagry on them.

That’s all for now.