I’d never seen this video before but it’s absolutely hilarious. It’s Steven Seagall claiming to be a psychic, a “healer” and a Buddhist God. No way. A reincarnated Buddhist God wouldn’t look that stupid when he runs.

We have a new blogger, Eric MacDonald of Choice in Dying. I’m really excited about this because end-of-life issues are important to me. I’ve lost several loved ones in situations that involved withdrawing life support and letting them die peacefully as they wished rather than continue to keep their bodies alive for no reason. His …

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BuzzFeed offers 33 ways you know you were a youth group kid and a lot of them look very familiar (though some of the specific examples in my case would be older). Jessica Bluemke picks out her favorites, including this one:

Slate has an article about the world’s oldest (found so far) porn, a bunch of paintings and carvings found in China that are more than 3000 years old. Despite his advanced age, there appears to be no truth to the rumors that Hugh Hefner is responsible for them.

Kirk Cameron, who would need a promotion to get to be a has-been hack, is helping Liberty University teach its film students how to “impact the next generation and the culture for Christ” by making crappy movies and TV shows. And Liberty U is so proud of this that they sent out a press release …

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Erik Rush, it seems, has never met an Obama conspiracy he didn’t like, especially the ones he extracts from his rectal cavity. His latest bit of paranoid lunacy is to claim that the health care reform bill is a cover for Obama to declare Christians to be crazy and put them in an asylum.

I somehow managed not to hear about this at all, but Christina Stephens, one of JT’s co-bloggers both here and at Patheos, was in a terrible accident and is going to have her lower leg amputated. She will be off work for a couple months and could use some help. One of the amazing things …

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Dan Fincke and Libby Anne’s latest question in their Forward Thinking series is a very interesting one: What would you tell teenagers about sex? Let me preface this by saying that I don’t have any kids and I never will. And I don’t think you should wait until they’re teens to talk to them about …

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Mere days after being let go by Fox News, likely at least in part due to the fact that he’s either wrong or lying about nearly everything, my former colleague Dave Weigel catches Dick Morris telling several major whoppers in an appearance on the Piers Morgan show. I’m shocked. Absolutely shocked. As Dave puts it, …

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Rebecca Watson reports that two of the daughters of Fred Phelps have left the family and the Westboro Baptist Church, joining two of their brothers including, of course, Nate Phelps. Megan Phelps-Roper posted on her website that she and her sister Grace have left:

Andrew Sullivan has begun posting transcriptions of a conversation he had with his friend Christopher Hitchens many years ago. The idea was that they would sit down over wine and have a recorded conversation, but the audio was not good enough to make public. So now he’s transcribing it in bits and pieces. In this …

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Some of you have already noticed that we put a widget on our side bar a couple months ago with Paypal buttons for you to contribute to Freethought Blogs if you’d like to do so (and thank you so much to those who have contributed). And the other day someone sent in a donation along …

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A few months ago, in the wake of Todd Akin’s disgusting statements, I published an essay written by a friend about rape, abortion and difficult choices. Her name was not revealed, at her request, but I thought the message was important and needed to be put out there. She has now decided to go public …

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The American Bible Society has released a list of the nation’s most “Bible-minded” cities, based on polling about how often people read the Bible and whether they believe the Bible to be the word of God. I don’t think anyone will find many surprises on the list.

Anyone who has ever worked an office job or been in the military knows how annoying paperwork can be. A great deal of time is spent making sure that requisitions and reports are filled out in triplicate and sent to the proper office. Turns out Al Qaeda has the same problem: