What I’m giving up for Lent:

I will give up not having enough sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll in my life. I need to increase all of these things to Charlie Sheen levels. Now, now, worry not. I realize that my face may melt off, but I believe I also have Adonis DNA, so I’m willing to risk it. And really, this is Lent. Let me have my baseless faith like everyone else who is arbitrarily giving something up, okay? I mean, at least what I want to give up can only improve my life.

Now excuse me while I go look at some mildly exposed skin, take some aspirin, and listen to a little Creed. (What did you expect? It is a Christian event.)

My favorite Charlie Sheen quotes

These past couple of days have been magnificently entertaining to me.

I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded bodies.

and

I’m not fair game. I’m not a soft target. It’s over. There’s a new sheriff in town and he has an army of assassins.

and

Look what I’m dealing with, man. I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

He must have been blogging when he said that last one.

They lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and their loser lives and they look me and say, “I can’t process it!” Well, no, you never will. Just stop trying. Sit back and enjoy the show.

And my all time favorite…

I have one speed. I have one gear: GO.

A CEO, a Tea Partier, and a union member…

…are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies. The CEO reaches over, takes 11 cookies, looks at the Tea Partier, and says, “Look out for that guy, he wants a piece of your cookie.”

The great governor of Maine

Santorum

I love the Internet.

As most people know by this point, the top Google search result for Rick Santorum is an obscene sex term assigned to him by Dan Savage.

After Santorum compared man-on-man sex in 2003 to man-on-dog sex, Savage told his readers to “Google bomb” Santorum, so the top search result for his name would be a graphic sex term. (If you want to know what it is, just Google it).

The Google bomb worked, and Rick Santorum has been complaining lately about how this is the cross he must bear.

But Santorum complaining about it is only making the problem worse, and last week his name was one of the hottest search terms on Google.

“By now the only people who haven’t heard about this are the Amish,” said [Stephen] Colbert [on The Colbert Report]. “He’ll do well with the Pennsylvania Dutch.”

Fear not for there is no need to head all the way over to what is probably most people’s homepage. I’ve got the definition right here.

santorum (san-TOR-um) n.
1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.

It’s too nice.

Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus attacked by atheists

It’s all coming true. All those stories Christians keep telling us, they’ve been true. You know the ones. Atheists have led awful regimes, atheism is magically normative, atheism leads to evil and death and destruction and attacks on goodness itself! It’s all true, and Billy Ray Cyrus, that man most famous for being the father of Miley Cyrus, has proof.

“Somewhere along this journey,” he says, “both mine and Miley’s faith has been shaken. That saddens me the most.” When they first came to Hollywood for Hannah Montana, the two of them would drive down the freeway together to the studio each morning, and every day Miley would point out the sign that said

ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY
ATHEISTS UNITED

Just before moving out to Los Angeles, the whole family had been baptized together by their pastor at the People’s Church in Franklin, Tennessee. “It was Tish’s idea,” he remembers. “She said, ‘We’re going to be under attack, and we have to be strong in our faith and we’re all going to be baptized…'” And there, driving to work each day in the City of Angels, was this sign. “A physical sign. It could have easily said ‘You will now be attacked by Satan.’ ‘Entering this industry, you are now on the highway to darkness…'”

Do you really see it in such clearly spiritual terms—that your family was under attack by Satan?

“I think we are right now. No doubt. There’s no doubt about it.”

And why is that happening?

“It’s the way it is. There has always been a battle between good and evil. Always will be. You think, ‘This is a chance to make family entertainment, bring families together…’ and look what it’s turned into.”

So rational, so clear-headed. We’re lucky Billy has brought this to everyone’s attention. How dare an atheist group exist, much less promote clean highways? It isn’t merely evil: it’s pure evil. Just look at the sign.

Pure evil.

I can already feel my Hitler mustache growing.

Next thing you know atheists will be donating to charity and helping old ladies cross the street. WHEN WILL THE MAYHEM END?

Hey, did you hear about that magic baby that was born in Bethlehem?

Well, he wasn’t really born in Bethlehem, but I digress.

You can’t explain that

Bill O’Reilly made a massive ass of himself last month when he said no one could explain the tides. He was trying to put forth the argument from design or maybe an argument for a fine-tuned Universe, but he was unable to articulate his position. He then went and made things worse (but more hilarious) with this:

As a result, there’s a new meme.

The irony of Limbaugh

It only took about 3 minutes today before I heard Rush Limbaugh say something so ironic it was stupid. He was talking about President Obama’s response to Mubarak and in the course of making stuff up he said that Obama wants Mubarak to fail. Then he called Obama “the worst person in the world” for that (among other things, including being black, but I digress). Wasn’t it Limbaugh who said he hopes this president fails?

The Harry Baals Government Center

What’s wrong with Harry Baals?

A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won’t name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire.

Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won’t be enough to put the name of the city’s longest-tenured mayor on the center.

And yes, he pronounced his last name “balls”.