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The Wonkette Trig Insanity [Now with Kloppenburg!]

I mentioned it in passing, but there were enough people pounding on it that 12 businesses took their advertising dollars elsewhere, and others may do so, as well. Pretty much everything I would have said about it, and more, Joy has covered in this post, in case you missed the action.

On the other hand, the terminally ill Canadian baby who couldn't receive life-extending treatment there was deemed well enough to go home with his parents. There's a very vague line between life-extending and life-saving, in point of fact; all of us live on . . . not borrowed, but gifted time. Is a life, because of its brevity, of lesser worth? Not where there is love. Is a life, because of its limitations, of lesser worth? Again, not where there is love.

You will find among many of the most humorous people on the web--people like Ace and Treacher and Iowahawk--some of the most deeply moral. It's from that perspective that they are able to identify and mock the insanity that one always finds where morality is not. A person who is secure in his or her beliefs will find her tongue more readily, formulate a response straightforwardly, and hedge and qualify it less than a person given to abuse casuistry for their own momentary purposes. There's a lesson there, too, about timing. For those of us who flip our pillows to the cool side, when, 15 years after receiving an insult, we formulate the perfect response, there is also a lesson in fearlessness.

Certainly, unless we bring our outrage to the matter, the Death Panels, acronym IPAB, will give us much to exercise our gallows humor upon in years to come.

Ah, well. All their religion is politics, now.

It is hard to know what to do when you see a “catholic” site post something that is simultaneously heretical and thoroughly dopey.

Do you ignore it? Do you post about it and therefore drive traffic to it?

This is my dilemma today in the case of Jamie Manson of the National Catholic Fishwrap. Her piece today is both as weird and as heterodox as any NCR reader could ever wish.

Nutshell:

Jesus did not come into this world or endure His Cross and death to save us from our sins. That’s just a guilt trip the Church laid on people. Its Religious Power that killed Jesus. He came – so far as I am able to glean from her article – to save us from the Roman Curia and the Republican Party.

Spirituality is nothing but power relations, rightly considered. Is it any wonder they're angry when thwarted?

UPDATE: Aaaaaaaand, like klopwerk (stay with it):

Via The Blast

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