Slog - Comments on Upcoming: Al Gore and Gay Cowboys Sing, Atheists Strike Back

Comment by wha?

wha? — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:55:01 -0800

Your shit is loving?

Comment by Jingo Dan! He be bad!

Jingo Dan! He be bad! — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:21:19 -0800

News for Dan Savages war: for more info see his Oct. 2002 article calling for war on Iraq.

Newsweek: Soldiers Turning To Self-Harm To Avoid Going Back To Iraq

Army suicides rose last year, Pentagon says
115 troops killed themselves in 2007, the most since at least 1980

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:30:44 -0800

Preaching to the unconverted...

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:36:07 -0800

who's that movie FOR? i already know that monotheists are fucking insane.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:38:28 -0800

As long as we're going off topic here, is anyone else bemused by the freakishly malformed implants on the obvious transsexual in the Sands Showgirls ad?

I'm gonna love this movie, I can tell. Step aside, Michael Moore; time for someone with a brain to make a documentary.

Comment by Justin J

Justin J — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:48:21 -0800

Directed by Larry Charles- of Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthuisiasm fame...

Comment by shub-negrorath

shub-negrorath — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:08:48 -0800

Yeah, you'd think that such a usually sharp guy as Maher would understand that making a movie about how much religion sucks is textbook choir-preaching. If religious folks were the type to be swayed by facts, logical argument, or snark, they'd have jumped ship on their own a long time ago.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:28:31 -0800

Yeah, but Shub, you forget the pleasures for us of laughing at them.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:37:28 -0800

"I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:40:01 -0800

*anachronism

Comment by Hartiepie

Hartiepie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:48:07 -0800

@1 at least he didn't say FUCK in this post.

Progress, I guess.

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:52:19 -0800

I'm guessing snide professional atheists like Maher et al preach to the choir for the same reason preachers do -- to fill up the collection plate. It's niche marketing.

Plus, constantly repeating clever variants of "We're so much smarter than these yokels! Haw! Look at 'em praying like a buncha rubes!" can be a diverting pastime. But it's not going to make any converts any more than "If you don't do what we say you're all going to hell!" does going the other way.

Comment by RHETT ORACLE

RHETT ORACLE — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:19:36 -0800

Well, if you can make an opera about the tastelessness of Jerry Springer or the inconvenient death of Leon Klinghoffer, why not one about Gore's Rising High Cs or Shepherds Lying on the Heath.

Comment by Sara

Sara — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:18:00 -0800

Paul,
I thought that e.e. cummings was a poet until I read these words of yours:

"libertarians tend to bug the ever-loving shit out of me"

Never has something spoken to the deepest depths of my soul that way. I have to admit it; I am now completely smitten.

Marry me, and let's be irritated by Libertarians forever.

BTW, I'm totally fat, so I hope you're into that.

Love always,
Sara

Comment by cowboy mob

cowboy mob — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:51:15 -0800

@6-you're kidding, right?

Comment by CP

CP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:57 -0800

Paul:

Do not marry me.

But libertarians bug the shit out of me, too.

Most of them (in the U.S., at least) are just pot-smoking Republicans who like low taxes. Libertines who like small gov't.

The last 15%? True believers. Really think everything would work out fine. Totally off their fukkin' rockers. Anarchists, but with the sense to not knock over trash cans and newspaper boxes.

In this country at least, about all I ever hear them bitch about is money, particularly, their own notable pile. Cops beating people up, civil liberties? Not so much. A little more lately in our constitutionally-challenged times, yes.