Ed Brayton

Author's details

Name: Ed Brayton
Date registered: June 30, 2011
URL: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches

Biography

After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

Latest posts

  1. It’s All Jason Collins’ Fault — May 24, 2013
  2. Barber: Satan Sending America Back to Days of Noah — May 24, 2013
  3. ‘You Have to Thank the Lord, Right?’ — May 24, 2013
  4. Bachmann: The 37th Time is the Charm — May 24, 2013
  5. Fincher: ‘Steal’ Taxpayer Money for Me, Nor for Thee — May 24, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. It Appears I’ve Started An ‘Atheist Cult’ — 842 comments
  2. Shermer and the Myth of Feminist Persecution — 405 comments
  3. Major Changes at Freethought Blogs — 390 comments
  4. Professor: Rape is Okay if Woman is Unconscious — 375 comments
  5. Butler: Arrest Anti-Muslim Filmmaker — 258 comments

Author's posts listings

May 24 2013

It’s All Jason Collins’ Fault

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Wingnuttia

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The moment the tornado hit Oklahoma on Monday, you knew it was only a matter of time before some wingnut informed us of why God was sending such destruction. The gays always seem to get the blame, of course, especially from Fred Phelps. But he blames it on a specific person:

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May 24 2013

Barber: Satan Sending America Back to Days of Noah

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Wingnuttia

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Matt Barber believes in a literal interpretation of Genesis, including that entirely fictitious global flood and Noah’s ark and all that nonsense. And he says Satan is the one pushing equality for gay people in order to send us back to the days of Noah that never happened:

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May 24 2013

‘You Have to Thank the Lord, Right?’

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Uncategorized

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That’s what Wolf Blitzer said to a woman who survived the tornado in Oklahoma: “You have to thank the lord, right? Do you thank the lord?” The woman informed him that she is an atheist. And no, you don’t. If you’re going to thank God for one person remaining safe, don’t you also have to …

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24 comments

May 24 2013

Bachmann: The 37th Time is the Charm

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Wingnuttia

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The U.S. House of Representatives have now voted 37 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, not one of which has had the slightest effect at all. But Rep. Michele Bachmann has faith that God is going to answer their prayers and bring a miracle to make Obama repudiate his own law.

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May 24 2013

Fincher: ‘Steal’ Taxpayer Money for Me, Nor for Thee

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Budget and Taxes, Wingnuttia

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We’ve already seen the rank hypocrisy of Republican legislators who repeatedly claimed that the stimulus bill didn’t create any jobs while simultaneously asking for stimulus funds for their district because it would create so many jobs. How about a Republican legislator who rails against food stamps “stealing” other people’s money but gets millions in farm …

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4 comments

May 24 2013

Cuccinelli Supports Jackson, Runs From His Statements

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Politics, Wingnuttia

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given how far to the right Ken Cuccinelli is, it’s really kind of hard to believe that Republican voters in Virginia actually managed to put someone on the ticket with him who is even worse. So now Cuccinelli is having to support E.W. Jackson’s nomination while also trying to distance himself from some of the …

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4 comments

May 24 2013

British Conservative Makes Terrible Anti-Equality Argument

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Equality, Wingnuttia

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The English House of Commons passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, with the Tories backing the idea, and the bill is now moving to the House of Lords, where one prominent conservative leader is making a terrible and, frankly, vile argument against marriage equality.

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28 comments

May 24 2013

Old French Bigot Kills Himself at Notre Dame

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Equality, Wingnuttia

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A far-right writer in France was apparently so upset about the legalization of same-sex marriage in that country that he decided to kill himself — at the altar at the Notre Dame cathedral, for crying out loud. And this was after saying that he thought people needed to take dramatic action to stop the progress …

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29 comments

May 24 2013

Robertson: Prayer Could Have Stopped the OK Tornado

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Wingnuttia

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And right on cue, here’s Pat Robertson saying that while God did not send the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma specifically, he would have stopped it if only people had prayed for him to do so. Does he think people didn’t pray? Were there just not enough of them? How many is enough? Did they not …

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22 comments

May 24 2013

Bangladeshi Bloggers Still at Enormous Risk

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Religious Authoritarianism, Religious Barbarism

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Two of the four atheist bloggers arrested in Bangladesh recently are out of jail on bail, but that does not mean they are out of danger. As we’ve seen in Pakistan, Indonesia and other Muslim-dominated countries, those accused of blasphemy are often attacked by angry mobs. HuffPo interviews one of them about it:

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May 24 2013

TV Evangelist Fraud Gets 14 Years in Prison

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Religious Frauds, Skepticism

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A former doctor turned TV evangelist and fake health fraud has been convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for a fake cancer cure that she promoted on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian television network. Courthouse News reports:

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14 comments

May 24 2013

Victoria Jackson Meets Her Match

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Wingnuttia

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We may have actually found a Jackson who is even dumber than Victoria Jackson — and it’s E.W. Jackson, the new Republican nominee to be the next lt. governor of Virginia. Here’s the two of them together, with the latter claiming that Obama is both and atheist and a Muslim and “an evil presence.”

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22 comments

May 23 2013

SCOTUS Grants Cert in Legislative Prayer Case

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Church and State

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In a move that makes me quite uncomfortable, the Supreme Court has granted cert (that is, agreed to hear an appeal) in a New York case involving the question of whether a legislative body, in this case a city council, can open its meetings with explicitly Christian prayers.

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11 comments

May 23 2013

Markell: God May Destroy Minnesota Cities

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Equality, Wingnuttia

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Last week Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the wingnuts continue to lose their minds over it. Jan Markell, who is from that state, is afraid that God may begin to destroy Minnesota cities and that the Christians there don’t know where to hide.

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39 comments

May 23 2013

Jones and Pratt, Together Again

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Wingnuttia

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Gary Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America (a gun rights group so extreme that they think the NRA is a bunch of weak-kneed liberal appeasers), went on the Alex Jones show and together they ranted about Obama being a “full bore Marxist” who stole the 2012 election. Evidence? Silly rabbit. Evidence is for …

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