Sadly, the finned Messiah was eaten by bigger fish shortly after His return. No word on whether he got back up.  But it’s only a matter of time until Mel Gibson figures out who really ate little sharkboy Jesus. Scientists confirm shark’s ‘virgin birth’ Pup carried by Atlantic blacktip shark contained no male genetic material  By Steve...

John McCain’s allies on the far right want more activist judges on the bench to repeal hard-won employee, consumer, minority, and women’s rights. To paraphrase Al Franken, they’re also keen to see a country where the wall between church and state has been eaten away like the cartilage in David Crosby’s septum.  They’re not sure...

Via Jonathan Martin at Politico: Of concern to McCain’s campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin’s interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing. The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in...

In another clip from her fingernails-on-a-chalkboard interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin yesterday promised never to second guess “Israel’s security efforts.”  Palin’s comments put her in direct conflict with just about everybody in Israel.  Anyone who’s spent any time there (and I have) knows that Israelis are rarely of a...

Reader AG says: On [Bill] Maher’s show last week, Andrew Sullivan made a big show of defending religion and expressing contempt for Maher’s movie, Religulous. [The exchange begins at around 6:45 -- GB]: But today, Sullivan says, “[e]ven I am a little shocked by this video from Palin’s church. Asking God to protect her from...

Jesus has taken time out of his busy schedule to imprint his visage on the ceiling of a weight loss clinic in Arkansas City, Kansas to help full-figured gals shed some extra lbs.  Heretics will say that this is a water stain cased by a leaky roof.  You’d have to be a real fool to believe that.  “Believing is believing, regardless of what you...