Pat Condell’s latest.
Classic Star Wars Toy Commercials
Jan 20, ’08
7:02 PM
Richard Stallman’s Personal Ad?
Jan 20, ’08
5:43 PM
Exposing Anti-Choice Abortion Clinics
Jan 20, ’08
5:36 PM
From AlterNet:
According to a recent Planned Parenthood email, a 17-year-old girl mistakenly walked into a crisis pregnancy center thinking it was Planned Parenthood, which was next door. “The group took down the girl’s confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their ‘other office’ (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby).”
When she showed up for her nonexistent appointment, she was met by the police, who had been erroneously tipped that a minor was being forced to abort. The crisis pregnancy center staff followed up this harassment by staking out the girl’s house, phoning her father at work, and even talking to her classmates about her pregnancy, urging them to harass her.
Do Some Mormons Believe that Bigfoot is Really Cain?
Jan 20, ’08
4:02 PM
From the Museum of Hoaxes:
Here’s a Bigfoot theory I haven’t heard before. Apparently there are some in the Mormon church who hypothesize that Bigfoot may actually be Cain, condemned to walk the earth forever. Matt Bowman provides some scholarly elaboration on this theory on the Mormon Mentality blog.
Apparently the Bigfoot-Cain connection traces back to a story told by an early leader of the Mormon church, David W. Patten. Patten claimed that in 1835 he encountered Cain walking along the side of the road. He wrote: “He walked along beside me for about two miles. His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark.”
Hmm. That sounds kind of like Bigfoot. At least, that’s what some Mormons have apparently concluded in recent decades. Bowman writes: “Cain’s identification as Bigfoot has provided Mormons with a way to assimilate the claims of folktale with new conceptions of what Cain, the embodiment of evil, should be like.”
