It sure FEELS like five billion years.

It’s safe to say that this Global Warming thingy will never occur.

Two shows daily, kids under 17 get in free!
Try the veal.

A couple? For a swing like that, there would have to be a lot more than a couple.

On a related note, Obama is ahead in Indiana according SurveyUSA, and up nearly 10% in Michigan.

Granted, polls don’t equal the final results, but it is hard to look at the evidence and think McCain has a 50/50 chance this November.

*Except Utah
(Fuck Utah)

No one doubts the fact the John McCain and his knuckle-dragging evangelical holier than thou right wing christian fanatics hope and pray for the Rapture to begin.

The problem is the whole lot of other religious proclamations throughout the ages that in hindsight seem childish and ignorant of fact. The Rapture is one the more popular of these. To date, we’ve been waiting 2000 years for the rapture to occur, and still no rapture despite numerous ‘signs’.

It’s safe to say that this Rapture thingy will never occur. For those believers out there still wondering what to do with themselves in the meantime, groups like Heaven’s Gate awaits your arrival.

Do the rest of us a favor, and get it over with already. The reality based community can and will continue to exist without you.

That is all.

States like Utah and Wyoming are starting to move from RED to PURPLE. It will be slow, perhaps maddening, but as people continue to migrate back east from the west coast these states will change.

Salt Lake City, where I stayed for a few days on my last vacation, has pockets of liberal activity. They just need inspiration and more organization.

Could Obama win Utah this cycle? I doubt it…but within 20 years, I will hazard a prediction: Utah will be blue…and not so Mormon.

Polls like this just confirm my theory that fundamentalist religions will be on the run (and segregated far out of mainstream society) within my lifetime (another 40 years or so). People hate being told what to do with their lives by people such as Ted Haggard and Pat Dobson, and eventually there will be blowback and it will not be good for evangelism.

You’re already seeing fundamentalists and evangelicals slowly moving away from their bread and butter issues of abortion and gay marriage and turning to broader issues like global warming. This is their way of re-branding their image, perhaps make their outdated motif more modern and more palatable. The only problem is christianity and any other organized religion you can think of or conjure up is flawed by the reliance on the supernatural.

Maybe if we can just pray hard enough and long enough, our problems will magically go away….