Paying Homage to Our Most Benevolent Despot

Hey, speaking of the King of Zembla, here are two very good reasons to visit his site right now (not that there aren't always many good reasons to visit his site early and often): One is this post about writer and fundie-exposer extraordinaire Joe Bageant and his latest essay, A Whore that Sitteth on Many Waters, regarding the scary Left Behind book series, from which the following paragraph has been extracted in a common, Generik manner:

This may be some of the bloodiest hate fiction ever published, but it is also what tens of millions of Americans believe is God’s will. It is approximately what everyone in the congregation sitting around me last Sunday at my brother’s church believes. Or some version of it. How can anyone acquire and hold such notions? Answer: The same way you got yours and I got mine. Conditioning. From family and school and society, but from within a different American caste than the one in which you were raised. And from things stamped deep in childhood -- such as coming home terrified to an empty house.

The other reason to visit is to read about the Hursti Hack and to then follow this link to sign a petition in support of Congressman Rush Holt's proposed H.R. 550, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act. This is an attempt to deal with a scenario that is actually far scarier than anything in any of the Left Behind books -- the reality that our votes may not count, that they are being manipulated and changed to keep Republican fearmongers and fundie-backed martinets in perpetual power. Now that's frightening!

Go, read, sign. I'll wait.