The Sardonic Sideshow

A true compromise is when neither party is happy.
The Right-Wing Agenda:
Brain dead patients and the terminally ill will be kept alive as long as science can manage it.
Children will be taught that God created the world in seven days, regardless of what SCIENCE theorizes.
Abortion should be against the law - […]

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I am tempted to do a year in review in installations. Then I thought it’s already taken me a year to review it. The clock is ticking…and about to leap by an entire second.

2005: The Year the Weather Blew and the Government Showed They Suck

In 2005, we saw a breach of the levees that NO […]

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Being a teenager sucks. It’s a brief moment in your life where you have all the physical ability of an adult and the legal status of a 2-year-old. Constitutional rights don’t apply to minors in this country. Right to bear arms? Right to vote? Right against unwarranted search and seizures? Right to a speedy trial? […]

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Let’s face it, ever since science started trolling the churches, kidnapping God-fearing folk and brainwashing them with their ‘theories’ - they’ve gained momentum as a group. They have gotten their agenda passed through the courts - their doctrine is now taught in schools and their followers are regularly shown on PBS.
This powerful lobby is […]

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DeLay Indicted in Texas Fundraising Probe
WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury Wednesday on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws, forcing him to temporarily step aside from his GOP post. He is the highest-ranking member of Congress to face criminal prosecution.
Tom Delay, ‘The Hammer’ - too […]

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Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
I think we can all agree that claiming sole morality is (ironically) unscrupulous. I also think we can all […]

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This was in the New York Times August 31, 2005:

The poll found that 42 percent of respondents held strict creationist views, agreeing that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
I like creationism better than science. I like debates with the lack of argument. If you believe in creationism - […]

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Published: August 31, 2005
Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA (Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project) dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security — coming at the same time as federal tax cuts […]

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Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.

So a bunch of men got together, spent months and months of their lives - tons of money involving 80,000 people to prove how smart men are?
That’s fucking brilliant!

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Dear Tina,
I have ran into a problem I’m sure many people have suffered. Ok, well I will start off by saying that I have a rather large family that goes back many many generations…. well I suppose we all do, but nontheless my family is very proud of their Basque heritage and it seems as […]

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I had a lovely dream last night. It was a Santorum Utopia….

Terri Schiavo was alive and in a persistent vegetative state.

All the women of America suddenly quit working outside the home, threw out their birth control and were fulfilled and happy.

All the Supreme Court decisions the were based on the interpretation of the Right […]

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Our nation is being run by a bunch of hall monitors! You know, the runny nose, bed wetting, finger wagging, prying, personal record keeping kids that irked us in elementary school. Guess where they are now? They’re hopped up on power, stoned on their own righteousness and out to tell us regular people exactly how […]

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And a Happy Shark Week to you all!

You know what’s cooler than a week’s worth of shows about sharks in the hottest month of the year?
NOTHING.

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July 12, 2005
Parkinson’s drugs stimulate urge to bet
By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor
PATIENTS treated with drugs for Parkinson’s disease can turn into compulsive gamblers, a study suggests…
And taking an experimental drug is what kind of gambling?
The article goes on:
Six patients also developed other behavioural problems, including compulsive eating, increased alcohol consumption and an insatiable appetite […]

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