Film at 11:00
Here is the concluding paragraph from
this article in the Guardian Telegraph UK* by a fancy little boy named Timothy Stanley who (I am absolutely not making this up) divides his time
"between London and Los Angeles, with the occasional weekend in Washington DC" is interested in
"religion, conservatism, elections, and culture" defines his
"politics as Anarcho-Catholic – an eclectic kind of pacifistic, red meat eating, gun loving, tax hating, Buddha hugging voodoo" is
"a bit obsessed with Sarah Palin" and is currently working on a biography of Pat Buchanan.
Oh boy!
The Rapture aside, America's evangelical Christians deserve a little respect
... Across the United States, atheists are gathering at Rapture parties to celebrate another day of life on this corrupted Earth. Their joy as Camping’s error is plain mean. While they knock back cheap imported beer and make-out in hot-tubs, thousands of evangelicals will be providing care and love to prisoners, homeless people, drug addicts and the poor. It is a noble calling worthy of a little tolerance.
Points off for not shoehorning
"the nattering nabobs of negativism" and
"the decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts" into this hot-tubbing-atheists-versus-"sweet little old lady"-evangelicals hit piece, but really that's just a quibble.
In the great tradition of Conservative Propagandizing Assholery, the author breezes right on past
literally millions of pages of contrary evidence on every relevant subject -- from the roots of America's absurd lock-'em-up mentality (racism + ridiculous Conservative faith-based anti-drug laws), to brain chemistry research, to mountains of studies of the kinds of programs
that actually work to reduce criminal recidivism -- in order to achieve his political ends: clubbing the Imaginary Depraved Godless Hordes into submission with Prayerful Octogenarians.
Congratulations Timmy -- a bright, New York Times Op-Ed-columnist-for-life future awaits you.
* Thanks for the catch, Dominic.