Jessica Bluemke grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from Ball State University in 2008 with a BA in Literature. She currently works as a writer and resides on the North side of Chicago.
So Catholic League leader Bill Donohue is mad… again. He shouted his way through this video, regarding the American government’s reaction to The Innocence of Muslims. He starts off shouting about “Piss Christ,” a photographic depiction of a small crucifix submerged in artist Andres Serrano’s urine: He continues shouting about how this is an award-winning piece of artwork that is celebrated and being brought back to display in Manhattan while The Innocence of Muslims was almost universally reviled: Why are they… Read more
The Vision Montréal city council adjourned for Yom Kippur on Wednesday, as usual, despite the challenge of one councilwoman. Anie Samson said that maybe there was a better way to handle religious holidays than to dismiss council meetings: The city should not suspend its work for a holiday of one religious community but not others, she said, and added that three of city council’s 65 members are Jewish. Rather than imposing a holiday on everyone, those who wish to celebrate their religions should be permitted to… Read more
Sometimes, when you watch a video or read a blog by some religious idiot, you get mad. Sometimes you get deeply depressed. Sometimes you just giggle. This video below… it left me confused and, I guess, vaguely bothered. Just sort of a general bewildered puzzlement is how I would best describe it. Just watch Pastor Heath Mooneyham deliver his sermon/stand-up routine: This is my favorite part: Apparently his church group uses a very specific euphemism to explain naughty bits: … We got this symbol of carrots and doughnuts…. Read more
I write a lot of articles about a lot of un-fun topics: People doing physical harm to themselves or others, people crying foul because they don’t get their way all of the time, sundry injustices throughout the world, all sorts of awful things. I try to keep myself somewhat emotionally separated from the stories, because if I didn’t, I would just drive myself crazy. For some reason, this story, an opinion piece — on FoxNews.com of all places! — just got… Read more
When I was twelve years old, I was really concerned about whether or not I could learn and perform all of the dances from Britney Spears’ videos. It was a big deal, and took up a whole lot of my time. And this was before YouTube and DVRs. I was most certainly not writing concerned letters to presidential candidates. Heck, I couldn’t even be bothered to write fan letters. Jackson Ripley thinks Mitt Romney is getting some big things wrong in his campaign,… Read more
