God hears an atheist’s prayer

From way back in December ‘06:

I don’t believe in you at all….
I am not a praying man. However, if you’re really there and can take my stipulation in the best spirit that I can intend, then I wonder if you could see to it that this bloody soft-sell commie Barak Obama is elected president the next time around. Here’s the thing; see, it would be very cool if you could arrange things so that if this guy gets to the white House, then we wouldn’t have to put up with anymore haranguing and breast-beating about “the first Black president”, and then maybe disgusting creeps like Jesse and Sharpton would finally sit down and shut the fuck up, and we could really get on toward realizing Martin’s dream about “the content of character” and not “the color of skin”. You know? Maybe, if we turn this large corner, then a lot of the lying bullshit surrounding that eminently noble ideal, these days, would be disarmed and finally go away.

Well, I don’t suppose this means that Billy will accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Not by a long shot, though I’m eager to be wrong about that. But what I’m saying, Billy, is that we’re going to need all the help we can get, these next four years. You’re on a roll; don’t stop now.

Racist survivalist for class president?

I passed a university poster kiosk and did a double take: “Tim May for class president 2012″. I wondered what kind of joke this was, but it was no joke, just an unfortunate duplication of names. “Getting it done since 1989″ was totally the wrong slogan, as the “real” Tim was getting it done long before that. “Tim May for class president: the dieoff will be glorious” would be far more suitable.