Nando-Tec has a truly Great commercial

Strange, or perhaps not, that a Portuguese-Angolan fried chicken chain, centered in South Africa, should be sharper on the Lords of PP than our Harvard Idiocracy. It's enough to make me go for a piri-piri roaster.

Christmas and Wien

While there is still Christmas and Wien.

In honor of what is good, and of those moments when life is at one with the better angels of our nature.
Merry Christmas.

Pepe Jong Il gets legal aid

Exhilarating Christmas Eve

At least on the northern Plains. Stocked up on plenty of beef roast, carrots-onion-celery-mushrooms, table reds, aged and smoked cheeses, port (Warre's Warrior), microbrews, Swedish meatballs with gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, brandy, smoked salmon, spiced apple cider and mulled wine. Seems to be all covered for the next couple days.

Hitchens Gives an Early Christmas Present to Foxhole Atheists

The point, or idea, in the argument most important is what is required to maintain a healthy Republic: the divide between Church and State. This not only so that the Church doesn't impose itself on the State, but also so that the State doesn't impose itself on the Church. It's a worthwhile ideal.

Here's a nifty excerpt:

"I am still not going to give any real names of [the atheist or agnostic] cadets attending my little event: there were about 20 of them, mostly males. Two of the group, one Baptist and one Mormon, had given up their faith since enlisting at the academy. The others fluctuated between doubt and agnosticism and straight-out unbelief. They were good-humored, outspoken, and tough-minded: the sort of people who make you proud of being defended by a volunteer military."

And on that note, an early Happy Christmas to FCP'ers as well.

Forever The Abyss Between?

Hey,MFT, a complement to that Dawkins piece below [hey, you gonna post the rest? Not fair just to stop with the teaser]

A Refuge For Each,Unto His Realm

[1] For AA, shipwrecker of the Seven Seas
[2] For MFT, scry of Ragnarok
[3] For AI, whose had enough of Nosferatu
[4] For Pepe, because flooding is bitchier than Kayla
[5] For JJ, a quiet refuge between the Goats

Until January, komrades.

Snow White Does Mars

A dastardly neocon election ploy

Planet Pepe has a Grand Unified Theory of why Russia invaded Georgia. Yes, you guessed it: it's all the neocons' fault: Scheunemann is at the center of the neoconservative cabal that has come to dominate the Republican candidate's foreign policy stance in a replay of the run-up to the war against Iraq. These folks are always looking for a foreign enemy on which to base a new Cold War, and with the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Putin's Russia that came increasingly to fit the bill. ... What is at work here is a neoconservative, self-fulfilling prophecy in which Russia is turned into an enemy that ramps up its largely reduced military, and Putin is cast as the new Joseph Stalin bogeyman, evoking images of the old Soviet Union.

Planet Pepe's GUT

Oktar said Koran verses and sayings of the Prophet Mohammed about the end of the world revealed Jesus would return soon as a Muslim to help Islam's savior, the Mahdi, defeat the Dajjal or Islamic Anti-Christ and establish Islam around the world. "Our biggest project right now is to lay the grounds for the coming of Jesus Christ," he said. "We understand this is going to be in the next 20 to 25 years." Have more ouzo, Pepe.

May Your Holidays be Radiant and Bright

and a Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night.

Cheers, from Seattle, for the last time.