Public Ridicule

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One of the best things about moving to Austin in the past year is the active and thriving non-religious community here. Case in point - The Atheist Experience. It airs on Public Access down here. Something like this would never air back in North Carolina where I moved from (Wilkesboro - Land of 1000 Baptist Churches).

Recently The Atheist Experience was pranked by a girl named Microbiologychick who runs her own blog called Atheist Girls. She doesn’t live too awfully far from where I moved from - just over the border in Tennessee. Microbiologychick gets a big thumbs-up from PR for being so incredibly dead-on in playing her character of the typical religious buffoon who knows nothing of what they are talking about when it comes to science. The hosts of The Atheist Experience were good sports and have also congratulated her on her ability to the play the role. She did so well, she fooled the show hosts, other bloggers, and even my favorite radio show, The Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio. Below is a link to the audio so you can hear her fantastic performance and commentary from Opie, Anthony, and Jimmy Norton.

NOTE: I cut-out a 20 minutes tangent discussion about Rocky Dennis, the deformed kid depicted in the Cher movie, “Mask”. It was so uproariously funny that they never really get fully back on the track of Microbiologychick’s call, but kept making allusions to it while wrapping up the discussion.

Opie and Anthony listen to The Atheist Experience

Good job, Microbiologychick. Public Ridicule salutes you.

Yes, North Carolina’s own JFK-wannabe had an extra marital affair. Normally I don’t care about shit like this. However, when I lived in NC, I heard this ass talk about morality all the time. Nice job, Johnny. You picked an ingenious method of proving Ann Coulter wrong.

“Borrowed” from SarahJessicaParkerLooksLikeAHorse.com. Go there and have a few laughs.

How low will Jack Thompson stoop? According to the Wired Blog Network, pretty damn low. Jack addressed a letter to the mother of the Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Strauss Zelnick. Take-Two is the company behind the Grand Theft Auto IV game. You can read the letter in it’s entirety at the Wired link above, but here are a few choice quotes from Jack’s letter:

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.

Right out of the gate, “murder simulator” and “sold to children”. Jack loves his emotionally charged buzzwords. As if murders didn’t occur before the era of video games. Come on, Jack. You can’t be this dense - this is all about publicity for you.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29:

“We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…”

Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.

Laughable.

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

It seems like Jack’s mother trained him up to be media whore. Shame on her. She raised her boy to open his hole up for anyone with a recording device.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.

For someone who claims to despise everything about GTA, Jack sure knows how to throw verbal Molotov cocktails. It’s as if he’s been “trained” to do so.

I’ve got an idea for a game I think Jack will like. It’s about the ruler of a gang and how this ruler maintains order over his territory. You will be one of his many underlings. In the game, the ruler:

Orders his followers to commit genocide not just once, but many, many times.

Sends wild beasts to kill his enemies children.

Threatens to force people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.

Condones and orders human sacrifice.

Creates a plague that kills thousands of people - men, women, and children.

Has 32,000 virgins taken as spoils of war. Thirty-two are set aside as a tribute for him.

Orders horses to be hamstrung.

Commands his underlings to “utterly destroy” and shown “no mercy” to those he defeats.

Has an underling sacrifice his daughter, his only child, according to a vow he has made.

Kills seventy men for looking at his possessions and at him.

Has an underling rip open all the women who are pregnant.

My game is called GTA (God, the Asshole), because all of the things I just listed (and many more equally horrible things) happen in the Bible at God’s request.

And the game gets worse because the Ruler can also torture the dead beyond the grave. Millions upon millions will be sent to a place where they will burn alive for eternity. What do you think, Jack? Is this acceptable? It’s your rule book we’re gong by. You should be thrilled.

Jack, think long and hard about what you want this world to be like. Douche.

On the Trinity Broadcasting Network (yes, that bastion of class and sophistication), Ben was speaking to Paul Crouch about the anti-science ‘Expelled’ movie:

From National Review Online:

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.

Crouch: That’s right.

Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

Crouch: Good word, good word.

I would say more, but is there any point. I mean, anybody who really feels this way should just become Amish. There’s no point in continuing on in this society benefitting from scientific discoveries you feel are part of a long walk toward moral and physical destruction. I’m starting to see what Nixon liked about him.

Look at Al checking out dat ass.

Hey, Al, she’s available - you gonna hit it like it’s Rodney King?

From Reuters:

Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

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Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

For some reason, I’m just not all that concerned about black men who claim that their dicks have been shrunk.

Look, don’t put these people front-and-center if you don’t want them laughed at.

I’m an Opie & Anthony fan and recently they’ve been having fun watching this security camera footage of a 100 year-old woman getting punched in the face and mugged. I should feel guilty about finding this so funny, but I just can’t help it. Here’s the camera footage with Opie & Anthony commentary dubbed in. The audio is not safe for work.

The Participants:

Opie, host
Anthony, host
Jimmy Norton, comedian and host
Jeffrey Ross, guest comedian
Jim Jeffries, guest comedian from Australia

It’s a good thing I don’t believe in hell…

Christ, that’s funny.