Harold Camping, the nutjob blasphemer fundamentalist evangelical preacher and radio host whose prediction of a May 21 Rapture launched a thousand snarky tweets, isn’t backing down in the face of the…uh…evident lack of a Rapture over the weekend. Instead, he’s doubling down! Camping says the world will still end on October 21, as he’s predicted all along. Originally, he said… Read more »
Brendan is probably too busy crying in a corner somewhere to post this update, so it’s left up to me to break the news that his favorite GOP Presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, has decided against a 2012 Presidential run. Reportedly, his wife and children were not in favor of the idea. No word on whether Daniels was simply… Read more »
BREAKING: Sources say #Rapture cancelled after an air-traffic controller in Heaven fell asleep on the job.Sun May 22 00:04:00 via EchofonBrendan Loybrendanloy Where were you on the day the world didn’t end? The above picture was taken out my window at precisely 6:00 PM Saturday, when the Rapture was scheduled to hit the Mountain Time Zone, airlifting the Saved to… Read more »
If you haven’t heard, the Rapture is coming on Saturday. Reminder: TSA will be conducting random pre-#Rapture “enhanced pat downs” to ensure air travelers’ safety during flights to Heaven tomorrow.Fri May 20 15:04:48 via webBrendan Loybrendanloy Specifically, the Rapture is coming at 6:00 PM local time on Saturday. (Apparently, God respects time zones!) So it’ll start in Kiribati and sweep… Read more »
Much ink is being spilled today over Stephen Hawking’s comment in an interview with The Guardian that “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” So… is he right? As a fairly… Read more »
Gloria Borger quotes an unnamed “irritated ally” of Newt Gingrich as saying: “He uses inflammatory language no matter what he is talking about. Why can’t he express a thought in a calm, rational way?” Heh. P.S. And now… Rick Perry for President? Nate Silver thinks he might be the favorite if he were to run.
Yesterday, the federal government hit the debt limit, and the Treasury Department started instituting “extraordinary measures” — which waste taxpayers’ money — to buy a few more months for Congress to dither, grandstand and demagogue, instead of authorizing the issuance of debt that is mathematically necessary in order to spend the money that Congress has already ordered the Treasury Department… Read more »
Hot on the heels of the big Huck-a-no, Donald Trump has announced that he’s not running for president either. Next up on the I’m-not-running announcement circuit: Palin? (Please?) Hopefully Mitch Daniels bucks the trend, and soon. (Run, Mitch, run!) If not, with Romney imploding over his sordid past, and all the other candidates not really very credible in the final… Read more »
The New York Times issues the nerdiest correction ever. LOL! (Hat tip: dcl.)
Amid increasing chatter about a potentially imminent decision by My Man Mitch on whether to run for president, and increasing noise from Daniels himself, Ross Douthat has a good analysis of why “talk radio conservatives” are cool to Daniels. The title of this post is a hint. Excerpt: [Most of the conservative arguments against Daniels] are all about his rhetoric,… Read more »