I have decided, without reservation, that this is the coolest monk who ever lived. Step aside Saint Francis of Assisi.

He throws up the Devil Horns for Christ!!!

This was my licence plate when I lived in N. Carolina. It did not go over well. I’d come out of the grocery store and have lit cigarettes burning on my hood, notes left under my wipers telling me that “I need mental help” and all kinds of other not-very-Christian things. FUN! I’m thinking of Ebay’ing it.

So I was walking down the street today, when I found the perfect photo op. Dogshits stacked like a crucifix.

So I did what any good fistofblogger would do, and went into the comic shop and bought a Qui-Gon Jinn action figure that looks a bit like Jesus, and put him on the doodie cross.

So much for any semblance of a family-friendly Fist of Blog.

So, I was paying for my stuff at Fred Meyer’s this afternoon. After the lady checked me through she turned to me, kind of flushed, and whispered the amount.

“Pardon me?” I said

She raised her voice to a murmur. “Six-sixty-six. It really bothers some people, so that some even buy something else to change the total.”

I handed her a twenty and fished in my pockets for change. “Oh - no,” I said. “Supposing it has some kind of cosmic significance in my tiny life, I don’t have a clue what that would be, and I’m pretty sure that grabbing a Reeses right now won’t make the difference between damnation and salvation.”

Pregnant pause. As she handed me the receipt, she said, “I’d explain it to you, but it would take too long.”

“Okay, then,” I said. Have a good day.”

I found a zooooomable version of The Last Supper. It’s cool. (The button to KILL the music is bottom right of the picture)

It strikes me as curious that Village Books would sponsor something along these lines; thought I would post it here. It may or may not be evidence for my theory that Bellingham, despite its ostensible “hip” status, is really much more provincial than a dyed-in the wool liberal would dare to admit: i.e., there’s a lot of troglodytes, rednecks and fucking lowlife bigots ’round here. I’m almost tempted to attend, just to see what kind of group this draws.

June 17 David Klinghoffer
Senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle shares ideas from his latest book, “How Would God Vote? Why the Bible Commands You to Be a Conservative.” Village Books. 1200 11th St. Bellingham. Free. 7:00 PM. (360) 671-2626.

FYI, The “Discovery Institute” is a Seattle-based right-wing group dedicated to bringing creationism back into American public science classes, in the guise of “Intelligent Design.” Part of its strategy for accomplishing this is masquerading as a “…a nonpartisan public policy think tank conducting research on technology, science and culture, economics and foreign affairs….” [official Google description]

Compare two different URLs from their domain, to see what I mean. It will not tax you intellectually: all you need to do is look at the respective page titles in the upper left-hand corner of your browser windows.

1.) www.discovery.org
2.) www.discovery.org/csc

Also FYI: in 2003 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $9.3 million in funds to the Discovery Institute, ostensibly for feasibility studies of “long term transportation solutions” in the Cascadia corridor. The money was to be doled out in increments of 1.1 million per year, for the first three years, with the remaining amount dependent upon oversight. What’s gone on in regard to this I don’t know. I do know that when Bill was informed of the Discovery Institute’s mission of challenging “Darwinism” and bringing “Intelligent Design” to the classroom, he essentially stated that he had been unaware of this “side mission” of the Discovery Institute. I think he’s probably on the up and up about that, and I suppose if the money really is put to good use in genuine feasibility studies, then no harm done. Alternatively, one could look at this as propping up the secular front for a bunch of Pat Robertson types. Worst case scenario: part of it got funneled into the “Intelligent Design” vanguard.

I’m not as smart or as eloquent as Barack Obama, so I have to express my religious views with pictures.

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Oh, this is the stuff, people. A politician speaking intelligently on religion.