connecting*the*dots

I’ve found Hitchens to be a smug, smarmy, pseudo-intellectual asshole over the years, but I couldn’t agree with him more about Falwell.

UPDATE: Pre-whackjob Dennis Miller on Jerry Falwell:

Ted Haggard is not my concern.

Yeah, I know, that’s not very Christian of me, but consider the degree of hypocritical venom this guy spit over the years:

I’ll live just fine not caring whether or not he can pull his life back together after his recent scandal with crystal meth and a gay hooker.

Check out the following Haggard interview with Richard Dawkins (who, as an avowed scientific atheist, has been known to be arrogant in his own right). From glibly preaching (watch for his playful fake head-butt with a teenage boy) to the interview itself, Haggard seems unhinged as a man with a God complex:

(Part II)

Faith is a powerful, conscious percept, with roots that take hold internally within our spirit and affect our interactions with external reality. For the life of me, I can’t understand why so many people rely on artificially anointed human beings to mold and edify their own faith.

It just seems lazy to me and the perfect opportunity for political and personal manipulation.

(Bonus video)

George W. Bush has appointed his latest, and final, Supreme Court nominee. As concerned citizens, we need to act… quickly. If you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to review Judge Samuel Alito’s record (.pdf)

If you feel he’s not the right choice for the highest bench in the land, sign the petition at SaveTheCourt.org to stop the nomination.

(link via joetrippi.com, image via REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Randi Rhodes laying the smackdown on Janet Parshall, October 7th, live on C-Span…

… me jamming on a mini-design project…

…which is now preserved in time as another Monday morning vessel of a pick me up.

(via blather)