I wouldn’t mind if my corpse found utility in scaring small creationist children.

This is going to cause some uncomfortable moments in atheist circles — after Richard Dawkins’ death and resurrection, he’s now going around performing miracles. This is very awkward.

I know! I’ll just have to stop believing in him, and instead put my faith in Daniel Dennett, who would never…oh, wait.

If you’re partial to humor about demons (and all you atheists — you know you are), check out DEMONS, a webcomic, sort of. It’s an interesting way to use YouTube, and I also rather like the mockery of Faithmole.

(via Brain Rage)

This routine will not fly, not even if you are Republican.

Do you remember the 80s, when MTV actually played music videos, and pop bands all had weird concept videos that didn’t seem to have much to do with the song, but were just productions to make you look at them? How about this: imagine if the lyrics of the song actually told the story portrayed in the video. You might get something like these renditions of Tears for Fears and A-ha. I laughed. Especially at “I’m gunna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench.” Pipe wrench fight!

Tina Fey opened Saturday Night Live last night. It would have been much funnier if they’d left that awful vice presidential candidate out of the sketch altogether.

When I’ve seen bits of it before, I’ve felt a terrible urge to run howling from the room…but they’ve hired a new cast member who might well provide some insightful and provocative opinions.