Tag Archives: crazy people

From a just-published interview with Steven Thrasher at the Village Voice: All right, let me ask you about this. You believe marriage is between one man and one woman, yes? Yes [laughing] So? Why are you asking me this? You know that, you know what I believe. Why are you calling me? Marriage is between a man and a woman. …

Buzzfeed reminds us of the incident in which then state legislator Michele Bachmann squatted down in some bushes to spy on an LGBT rights rally in Minneapolis. Bachmann later claimed she wasn’t hiding, she was “resting her heels.”

From an extensive Rolling Stone profile by Matt Taibbi: Bachmann’s entire political career has followed this exact same pattern of God-speaks-directly-to-me fundamentalism mixed with pathological, relentless, conscienceless lying. She’s not a liar in the traditional way of politicians, who tend to lie dully, usefully and (they hope) believably, often with the aim of courting competing demographics at the same time. …

There’s zero proof of this, of course, but it scares well with Joyner’s huge mentally-slow audience.

More insanity here.

Literally, apparently.

“Bible prophecy may have a bad name in the light of Harold Camping’s misguided date-setting, but the biggest sign of the end may have been overlooked in all the rapture hysteria of the May 21st weekend. Once again, we saw the U.S. hit with a series of deadly superstorms following Barack Obama’s pledge to return Israel to pre-1967 borders. Just …

Today the Daily Beast reports on a 2005 incident in which Michele Bachmann called the police when lesbian activists spoke to her in a ladies room. A few dozen people showed up at the town hall for the April 9 event, and Bachmann greeted them warmly. But when, during the question and answer session, the topic turned to same-sex marriage, …

Infamous rapture proponent Harold Camping has had a stroke. The radio preacher who sparked an international media frenzy by predicting the end of the world last month has suffered a stroke. Harold Camping was rushed to hospital from his Alameda, California home on Thursday night. The 89-year-old has survived the stroke – but there are fears that the gravelly, famous …

Which is interesting, since Darwin didn’t come up with evolution until 1859.

Kentucky’s Creation Museum seems to be off to a slow start raising the $24.5M needed for their “full-scale” replica of Noah’s Ark. Therefore they’ve begun selling parts for the ark in a program in which devotees can pledge from $100 for an “authentic wooden peg” up to $5000 for a “gopher wood beam.” Just so you know.