Last night I went to see the new play The Beastly Bombing, a hilarious and savage burlesque of contemporary politics. The plot concerns two pairs of terrorists — white supremacists and Islamic fundamentalists — who meet while both attempting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. They eventually find themselves sharing a jail cell with the president’s coked-out daughters, and love blossoms. The show was sold out and received a standing ovation. It’s definitely worth seeing, as long as you’re not easily offended.
By now you’ve all probably heard that Ted Haggard, one of the nation’s leading evangelicals and an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has been engaged in a three-year-long binge of meth-fueled gay sex with a prostitute. As soon as I saw his photo, I was like, “Wait a minute, I know this nitwit from somewhere.” Turns out he’s the same guy who totally lost it during an interview with Richard Dawkins. Haggard chased Dawkins off the church property while screaming, “You called my children animals!” (In reference to Dawkins’ advocacy of evolution.)
Speaking of evolution, have you heard about Kirk Cameron and the banana? This is apparently not a joke. If not, it’s one of the most unintentionally funny things I’ve seen in a long time. It turns out that the banana is proof of design in the universe. “As with soda can makers, they’ve placed a tab at the top … when you pull the tab, the contents don’t squirt in your face.” It’s impossible to watch this video without concluding that this guy’s mind is on something besides bananas. (“Ease of entry … just the right shape for the human mouth.”) As one YouTube poster piquantly observed, “Why does this guy seem to expect that any banana-shaped object is naturally going to squirt in your face?” Among the many, many flaws of the banana argument is the fact that bananas as we know them are the result of thousands of years of cultivation. Wild bananas are practically inedible.
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